Sr. Observability Engineer

Job Title: Sr. Observability Engineer

Location: Buffalo, NY

Hire Type: Contract

Pay Range: Approximately $85/hour

Work Model: Hybrid – 4 Days Onsite / 1 Day Remote (Buffalo-area candidates strongly preferred)

Schedule: Monday – Friday, Standard Business Hours

Recruiter Contact: Samantha Marranca | [email protected]

W-2 only. No C2C. No sponsorship (current or future). No relocation assistance. Candidates must be able to work onsite in Buffalo, NY four days per week

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Nature & Scop

e:Positional Overvi

ewOur client is seeking a Senior Observability Engineer to help drive its enterprise observability strategy, including a significant expansion of Dynatrace and implementation of IBM SevOne. This senior engineering role will provide technical leadership for observability platform architecture, reliability, scalability, governance, and cross-platform integration across enterprise environment

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The successful candidate will design and mature enterprise observability standards, enable AIOps capabilities, improve operational visibility, reduce alert fatigue, optimize observability costs, and support intelligent root cause analysis through AI-driven tooling such as Davis

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Role & Responsibil

ity:Tasks That Will Lead To Your Suc

• cessDesign, engineer, and scale enterprise observability platforms including Dynatrace and IBM Sev
• One.Define observability standards, patterns, telemetry models, and governance across application and infrastructure monitor
• ing.Lead platform reliability, scalability, and cross-tool integration initiati
• ves.Drive AIOps adoption using Davis AI, causal analysis, intelligent automation, and AI-driven operational analyt
• ics.Develop strategies for enterprise log, metric, trace, and alert managem
• ent.Reduce alert noise, improve signal quality, and optimize monitoring co
• sts.Partner with application, infrastructure, and network engineering teams to expand observability capabilit
• ies.Support enterprise monitoring best practices and operational resilience initiati

ves.Required Experi

• ence8+ years of engineering experience supporting enterprise monitoring or observability platfo
• rms.Deep expertise with Dynatrace, IBM SevOne, Datadog, or similar enterprise observability technolog
• ies.Strong background in observability architecture, platform engineering, and enterprise monitor
• ing.Experience designing scalable monitoring, logging, metrics, and alerting soluti
• ons.Experience with AIOps, Davis AI, intelligent automation, and root cause analy
• sis.Knowledge of governance, telemetry standards, and cost optimization for observability platfo
• rms.Strong communication and collaboration skills across technical te

ams.Preferred Qualificat

• ionsBanking or financial services experie
• nce.Experience supporting large enterprise observability transformati
• ons.Knowledge of ServiceNow ITOM, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, or related technolog

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Team & Enviro

nment• Team of approximately 12 engineers spanning application performance monitoring, network performance monitoring, and observability platform enginee

ring.• Individual contributor role with no direct reports and no on-call responsibili

ties.• Initial contract through May 2027 with strong potential for full-time conver

sion.• Two interview rounds: hiring manager followed by leadership/senior engineer panel. Virtual interviews accepted; cameras expe