Platform Engineer

TEKsystems • Philadelphia, PA

1d • $45 - $65 • Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking an Intermediate Platform Engineer with a strong focus on application monitoring and observability to support and enhance enterprise monitoring platforms. This role plays a key part in ensuring application performance, reliability, and visibility across complex environments by implementing effective monitoring, dashboards, and alerting. The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with application performance monitoring tools (especially AppDynamics), enjoys collaborating with application and infrastructure teams, and is comfortable troubleshooting performance issues using telemetry and monitoring data.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
• 3–6+ years of experience in platform engineering, monitoring, observability, or related roles
• Hands-on experience with AppDynamics for application performance monitoring
• Working knowledge of real user monitoring, synthetic monitoring, and database monitoring concepts
• Experience supporting monitoring platforms in enterprise or large-scale environments
• Familiarity with alerting strategies and alert noise reduction principles
• Working knowledge of AWS services such as Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, and IAM
• Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Azure Pipelines, or similar)
• Scripting or automation experience (PowerShell, APIs, or infrastructure automation tools)

Nice To Haves

• Experience with event or incident management platforms
• Experience managing monitoring agent deployments or upgrades at scale
• Awareness of cloud and platform security best practices
• Interest in or pursuit of cloud or observability certifications
• Experience working with distributed or globally aligned engineering teams

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain application performance monitoring using AppDynamics, including instrumentation, transaction tracing, and performance analysis
• Configure and support real user monitoring (RUM), synthetic monitoring, and database monitoring to improve application visibility
• Support integrations with visualization or event management tools such as BigPanda or Grafana.
• Build and maintain dashboards and visualizations to provide clear insights into application health and performance
• Assist with alert configuration and tuning to reduce noise and improve incident response
• Support automated deployment and configuration of monitoring agents through CI/CD pipelines
• Partner with application, infrastructure, and operations teams to gather monitoring requirements and deliver scalable solutions
• Participate in incident investigation and troubleshooting using monitoring and telemetry data
• Help document and follow monitoring standards, best practices, and operational procedures
• Support monitoring and observability solutions across cloud and on-prem environments

Benefits

• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees