Observability Specialist

Senior Observability Engineer

Location : Remote

Employment Type : 6 Month Extendable Contract

I am seeking a highly experienced Senior Observability Engineer to lead the development and implementation of a unified observability strategy across a modern, cloud-native technology stack. This is a strategic role focused on enabling full-stack visibility, optimizing performance, and ensuring reliability across distributed systems.

Key Responsibilities :

• Design and implement a comprehensive observability blueprint covering frontend (React / Next.js), backend (API / GraphQL), Kubernetes infrastructure, and alert routing.
• Enable Real User Monitoring (RUM) and frontend metrics, linking browser performance to backend traces.
• Instrument backend services to trace user actions and identify performance bottlenecks.
• Define and standardize SLO / SLI templates for latency, availability, and error rates across environments.
• Develop and manage alerting strategies, including severity levels, team-based routing, and escalation workflows.
• Standardize observability practices across services, including labels, dashboards, alert rules, and collector configurations.
• Operate OpenTelemetry and Grafana Alloy pipelines for metrics, logs, and traces, with sampling and cardinality controls.
• Maintain observability configurations as code using GitOps tools (Helm, Kustomize, Terraform).
• Deliver “golden dashboards” for frontend UX, API performance, and Kubernetes / service health.

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