Observability Engineer

Capgemini•Fort Meade, MD

3h•$120,000 - $150,000•Remote

About The Position

Capgemini Government Solutions (CGS) LLC is seeking an Observability Engineer to design, implement, and support enterprise monitoring and observability solutions for mission-critical systems. This role will focus on improving system visibility, reliability, and performance through logging, telemetry, alerting, and dashboard development. The ideal candidate has experience supporting large-scale production environments and working closely with DevOps, SRE, engineering, and cybersecurity teams to ensure systems are observable, resilient, and operationally efficient.

Requirements

Active TS/SCI clearance.
8+ years of experience in observability, monitoring, systems engineering, SRE, platform engineering, cybersecurity engineering, or related disciplines.
Experience with enterprise monitoring and observability platforms
Experience with log management, telemetry collection, dashboard development, and alerting.
Strong understanding of infrastructure monitoring, including compute, storage, network, and application performance.
Experience performing root cause analysis and supporting production incident resolution.
Ability to work in Agile development environments.
Ability to obtain SAFe Scrum Master certification if not already certified.

Nice To Haves

Experience with OpenObserve, Fluentd, or other log ingestion technologies.
Experience with platforms such as Splunk, Elastic, Grafana, OpenObserve, Datadog, Dynatrace, or similar tools.
Experience with cloud-based monitoring and automation.
Experience supporting cybersecurity monitoring or security telemetry initiatives.
Experience with API integrations and monitoring automation.
Familiarity with AI-assisted monitoring or AIOps platforms.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain observability and monitoring solutions.
Manage log collection, ingestion, correlation, and analysis across multiple data sources.
Develop dashboards, alerts, and reporting to monitor system health, performance, and availability.
Analyze infrastructure, application, and network telemetry to identify issues and trends.
Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and support incident response activities.
Collaborate with engineering, DevOps, SRE, and cybersecurity teams to improve monitoring coverage and operational visibility.
Support SLA and performance objectives through proactive monitoring and alerting.
Ensure monitoring data is properly collected, tagged, and correlated.
Mentor junior team members and provide technical guidance.