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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.

Key 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. 

Required Qualifications 

• 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.  

Preferred Qualifications 

• 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.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.

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Capgemini discloses salary range information in compliance with state and local pay transparency obligations. The disclosed range represents the lowest to highest salary we, in good faith, believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting, although we may ultimately pay more or less than the disclosed range, and the range may be modified in the future. The disclosed range takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, geographic location, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, performance, sales or revenue-based metrics, and business or organizational needs. At Capgemini, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role. The base salary range for the tagged location is $120k - $150k.

This role may be eligible for other compensation including variable compensation, bonus, or commission. Full time regular employees are eligible for paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, 401(k), and any other benefits to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, or any other form of compensation that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

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