The Elastic Observability Engineer is an important member of our Cloud Operations team, building a world-class Application Performance Monitoring solution to support observability-driven development.
The Elastic Observability Engineer is an important member of our Cloud Operations team, building a world-class Application Performance Monitoring solution to support observability-driven development.
The Elastic Observability Engineer is an important member of our Cloud Operations team, building a world-class Application Performance Monitoring solution to support observability-driven development.
The Elastic Observability Engineer is an important member of our Cloud Operations team, building a world-class Application Performance Monitoring solution to support observability-driven development.
Performance Test Engineer
Okemos, MI · On-site
... testing, monitoring and evaluation and five years' experience in application development. • Will accept any suitable combination of education, training, or experience. • Strong hands-on ...
Performance Test Engineer
Okemos, MI · On-site
... testing, monitoring and evaluation and five years' experience in application development. • Will accept any suitable combination of education, training, or experience. • Strong hands-on ...
Performance Test Engineer
Okemos, MI · On-site
... monitoring and evaluation and five years' experience in application development. · Will accept any suitable combination of education, training, or experience. · Strong hands-on experience with ...
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Performance Test Engineer
Okemos, MI · On-site
... monitoring and evaluation and five years' experience in application development. · Will accept any suitable combination of education, training, or experience. · Strong hands-on experience with ...
Performance Test Engineer
Okemos, MI · Hybrid
... performance testing, monitoring and evaluation and five years' experience in application development. Will accept any suitable combination of education, training, or experience. Strong hands-on ...
Performance Test Engineer
Okemos, MI · Hybrid
... performance testing, monitoring and evaluation and five years' experience in application development. Will accept any suitable combination of education, training, or experience. Strong hands-on ...
Performance Test Engineer
Okemos, MI · On-site
... monitoring and evaluation and five years' experience in application development. · Will accept any suitable combination of education, training, or experience. · Strong hands-on experience with ...
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Performance Test Engineer
Okemos, MI · On-site
... monitoring and evaluation and five years' experience in application development. · Will accept any suitable combination of education, training, or experience. · Strong hands-on experience with ...
LAN WAN CONNECTIONS APPLICATION PERFORMANCE TROUBLESHOOTING NETWORK MONITORING TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE Additional Skills: MOTIVATION SENSITIVITY EXCELLENCE TEAMWORK ROUTERS PCS PRINTERS TCP/IP OSPF ...
LAN WAN CONNECTIONS APPLICATION PERFORMANCE TROUBLESHOOTING NETWORK MONITORING TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE Additional Skills: MOTIVATION SENSITIVITY EXCELLENCE TEAMWORK ROUTERS PCS PRINTERS TCP/IP OSPF ...
Performance Test Engineer
Okemos, MI · On-site
... monitoring and evaluation and five years' experience in application development. 2. Will accept any suitable combination of education, training, or experience. 3. Strong hands-on experience with ...
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Performance Test Engineer
Okemos, MI · On-site
... monitoring and evaluation and five years' experience in application development. 2. Will accept any suitable combination of education, training, or experience. 3. Strong hands-on experience with ...
ServiceNow Deployment- Senior Associate
$77K - $202K/yr
Cloud Application Performance Monitoring (APM); Cloud auto-scaling, ELB; Cloud AI Ops / AI Monitoring; and, Cloud Discovery. Travel Requirements Up to 80% Job Posting End Date The salary range for ...
ServiceNow Deployment- Senior Associate
$77K - $202K/yr
Cloud Application Performance Monitoring (APM); Cloud auto-scaling, ELB; Cloud AI Ops / AI Monitoring; and, Cloud Discovery. Travel Requirements Up to 80% Job Posting End Date The salary range for ...
ServiceNow Deployment- Senior Associate
Grand Rapids, MI · On-site
$77K - $202K/yr
Cloud Application Performance Monitoring (APM); Cloud auto-scaling, ELB; Cloud AI Ops / AI Monitoring; and, Cloud Discovery. Travel Requirements Up to 80% Job Posting End Date The salary range for ...
ServiceNow Deployment- Senior Associate
Grand Rapids, MI · On-site
$77K - $202K/yr
Cloud Application Performance Monitoring (APM); Cloud auto-scaling, ELB; Cloud AI Ops / AI Monitoring; and, Cloud Discovery. Travel Requirements Up to 80% Job Posting End Date The salary range for ...
Sales Application Engineer
Troy, MI · On-site
$98.90K - $122.20K/yr
Sales Application Engineer, Energy Storage System (ESS) SKon, a proud member of SK Group, the ... Facilitate cross-functional coordination to address ongoing performance monitoring and compliance ...
Sales Application Engineer
Troy, MI · On-site
$98.90K - $122.20K/yr
Sales Application Engineer, Energy Storage System (ESS) SKon, a proud member of SK Group, the ... Facilitate cross-functional coordination to address ongoing performance monitoring and compliance ...
Sales Application Engineer
$98.90K - $122.20K/yr
Sales Application Engineer, Energy Storage System (ESS) SKon, a proud member of SK Group, the ... Facilitate cross-functional coordination to address ongoing performance monitoring and compliance ...
Sales Application Engineer
$98.90K - $122.20K/yr
Sales Application Engineer, Energy Storage System (ESS) SKon, a proud member of SK Group, the ... Facilitate cross-functional coordination to address ongoing performance monitoring and compliance ...
The Performance Specialist is responsible for assessing systems impacted within a project to create ... Measure and monitor progress during each test to ensure that the application is tested and ...
The Performance Specialist is responsible for assessing systems impacted within a project to create ... Measure and monitor progress during each test to ensure that the application is tested and ...
Senior Discovery IT System Administrator (Top Secret Clearance Required)
Detroit, MI · On-site
$85K - $115.10K/yr
... monitor and test application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions, and work with vendors and developers to implement fixes; • Contractor shall maintain security ...
Senior Discovery IT System Administrator (Top Secret Clearance Required)
Detroit, MI · On-site
$85K - $115.10K/yr
... monitor and test application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions, and work with vendors and developers to implement fixes; • Contractor shall maintain security ...
Monitoring or reviewing IT systems, service, or application performance to support availability, reliability, security controls, usability, and operational effectiveness in accordance with ...
Monitoring or reviewing IT systems, service, or application performance to support availability, reliability, security controls, usability, and operational effectiveness in accordance with ...
Monitoring or reviewing IT systems, service, or application performance to support availability, reliability, security controls, usability, and operational effectiveness in accordance with ...
Monitoring or reviewing IT systems, service, or application performance to support availability, reliability, security controls, usability, and operational effectiveness in accordance with ...
Optimize application performance and power utilization across CPU, memory, storage, and network ... Develop and maintain system-level tooling for cluster bring-up, diagnostics, monitoring including ...
Optimize application performance and power utilization across CPU, memory, storage, and network ... Develop and maintain system-level tooling for cluster bring-up, diagnostics, monitoring including ...
High Performance Compute (HPC) Software Engineer - HPC SW Systems
Ann Arbor, MI · On-site
$105.90K - $180K/yr
... application performance and power utilization across CPU, memory, storage, and network subsystem ... monitoring including component power usages, and health checks. • Work closely with algorithms ...
High Performance Compute (HPC) Software Engineer - HPC SW Systems
Ann Arbor, MI · On-site
$105.90K - $180K/yr
... application performance and power utilization across CPU, memory, storage, and network subsystem ... monitoring including component power usages, and health checks. • Work closely with algorithms ...
High Performance Compute (HPC) Software Engineer - HPC SW Systems
Ann Arbor, MI · On-site
$105.90K - $180K/yr
Optimize application performance and power utilization across CPU, memory, storage, and network ... Develop and maintain system-level tooling for cluster bring-up, diagnostics, monitoring including ...
High Performance Compute (HPC) Software Engineer - HPC SW Systems
Ann Arbor, MI · On-site
$105.90K - $180K/yr
Optimize application performance and power utilization across CPU, memory, storage, and network ... Develop and maintain system-level tooling for cluster bring-up, diagnostics, monitoring including ...
Coordinate with the application and technical architecture teams for supporting team roles ... Collects and analyzes monitoring data in test and production to quickly determine root cause of ...
Coordinate with the application and technical architecture teams for supporting team roles ... Collects and analyzes monitoring data in test and production to quickly determine root cause of ...
Application Performance Monitoring information
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What is Application Performance Monitoring (APM)?
What is the difference between Application Performance Monitoring vs Software Developer?
| Aspect | Application Performance Monitoring | Software Developer |
|---|---|---|
| Primary Focus | Monitoring and optimizing application performance and user experience | Designing, coding, and maintaining software applications |
| Required Skills | Performance analysis, troubleshooting, monitoring tools | Programming languages, software design, problem-solving |
| Work Environment | IT teams, operations, DevOps | Development teams, coding environments |
| Certifications | APM tools certifications, ITIL, cloud certifications | Programming certifications, computer science degrees |
Application Performance Monitoring professionals focus on ensuring applications run smoothly by tracking performance metrics, while Software Developers create and improve the software itself. Both roles are essential in the software lifecycle but serve different functions within the tech industry.

Full-time
Medical, Dental, Vision, Retirement, PTO
Posted 2 days ago
Rockwell Automation rating
7.9
Based on 32 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz
154th of 415 rated machine equipment manufacturers
Job description
Rockwell Automation is a global technology leader focused on helping the world's manufacturers be more productive, sustainable, and agile. With more than 28,000 employees who make the world better every day, we know we have something special. Behind our customers - amazing companies that help feed the world, provide life-saving medicine on a global scale, and focus on clean water and green mobility -our people are energized problem solvers that take pride in how thework we do changes the world for the better.
We welcome all makers, forward thinkers, and problem solvers who are looking for a place to do their best work. And if that's you we would love to have you join us!
Job Description
Position Summary:The Elastic Observability Engineer is an important member of our Cloud Operations team, building a world-class Application Performance Monitoring solution to support observability-driven development. You will handle alert response, triage, maintenance, expansion and development to ensure monitoring systems remain healthy and reliable.
Your Responsibilities:Operational Support & Triage
- Respond to alerts, ingestion issues, and userreported incidents.
- Perform initial diagnosis, document findings, and resolve or escalate as needed.
- Monitor and troubleshoot Elasticsearch clusters, pipelines, Elastic Agent, Logstash, and Fleet.
- Participate in the oncall rotation.
Maintenance & Routine Operations
- Perform service restarts, ingestion validation, and configuration updates.
- Apply Linux/Unix patches and perform basic OS maintenance.
- Conduct regular cluster health, capacity, and LVM/storage checks.
- Support dashboard upkeep and proactive monitoring.
Data Quality & Pipeline Support
- Verify log, metric, and trace data completeness and ECS alignment.
- Perform periodic data validation.
- Document known issues, parsing gaps, and operational patterns.
Dashboards, Visualization & Search
- Use and maintain Kibana dashboards for operational visibility.
- Create dashboards and visualizations to support platform monitoring.
- Use KQL or Lucene queries to validate data and investigate issues.
Collaboration
- Provide actionable escalation details to SRE, DevOps, and Security teams.
- Maintain runbooks, SOPs, and troubleshooting guides.
- Communicate effectively during incidents and followups.
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent years of relevant work experience
- Legal authorization to work in the US is required- we will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, not now or in the future, for this job opening
- Typically requires 2+ years of relevant experience in observability, monitoring, logging, or IT operations.
- Linux/Unix: Handson administration, patching, networking basics, LVM, and troubleshooting.
- Windows: Basic OS administration experience.
- Elastic Stack: Working knowledge of Elasticsearch, Kibana, Fleet, Elastic Agent, APM, Logstash, architecture basics, and core troubleshooting.
- Observability: Understanding of monitoring practices, observability concepts, dashboards, and visualization creation.
- Scripting & Automation: Bash scripting, familiarity with Ansible, and experience with Python or PowerShell.
- Soft Skills: problemsolving, ability to work in a fastpaced environment, and selfstarter mindset.
- Linux/Unix engineering experience; Windows engineering experience.
- OpenTelemetry (OTEL) or APM experience.
- Knowledge of Ansible, Terraform, Rabbit MQ, Docker, Kubernetes, AZDO and CI/CD.
- Guestlevel experience with VMware or Azure.
- Project management exposure.
- Health Insurance including Medical, Dental and Vision
- 401k
- Paid Time off
- Parental and Caregiver Leave
- Flexible Work Schedule where you will work with your manager to enjoy a work schedule that can be flexible with your personal life.
- To learn more about our benefits package, please visit at www.raquickfind.com.
This position is part of a job family. Experience will be the determining factor for position level and compensation.
At Rockwell Automation we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this or other roles.
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We are an Equal Opportunity Employer including disability and veterans.
If you are an individual with a disability and you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation during the application process, please contact our services team at +1 (844) 404-7247.
Rockwell Automation's hybrid policy aligns that employees are expected to work at a Rockwell location at least Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays unless they have a business obligation out of the office.
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Rockwell Automation is a global technology leader focused on helping the world's manufacturers be more productive, sustainable, and agile. With more than 25,000 employees who make the world better every day, we know we have something special. Behind our customers - amazing companies that help feed the world, provide life-saving medicine on a global scale, and focus on clean water and green mobility - our people are energized problem solvers that take pride in how the work we do changes the world for the better.
Industry
Industrial automation equipment manufacturing
Company size
10,000+ Employees
Headquarters location
Milwaukee, WI, US
Year founded
1903