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System One

Lead AWS Cloud Platform Engineer

Reston, VA · On-site

$109.05/hr

Strengthen observability, performance, and audit readiness across environments * Troubleshoot ... voluntary plans, as well as participation in a 401(k) plan. System One is an Equal Opportunity ...

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What is the difference between Volunteer Observability Engineer vs Volunteer Site Reliability Engineer?

AspectVolunteer Observability EngineerVolunteer Site Reliability Engineer
CertificationsKnowledge of monitoring tools, scripting, basic cloud skillsSimilar, often includes cloud and scripting skills
Work EnvironmentFocus on monitoring, logging, and observability tools in volunteer or nonprofit settingsFocus on system reliability, incident response, and infrastructure in volunteer projects
Industry UsageUsed in tech nonprofits, open-source projects, and community initiativesCommon in open-source projects, tech nonprofits, and cloud-based volunteer efforts

Volunteer Observability Engineers primarily focus on monitoring and observability tools to ensure system health, while Volunteer Site Reliability Engineers concentrate on maintaining system reliability and incident management. Both roles require similar technical skills and are used in volunteer tech projects, but their core responsibilities differ slightly, with observability emphasizing monitoring and SRE emphasizing system stability.

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Senior Data Dog Cloud Engineer (Observability)

System One

Washington, DC • On-site

$63/hr

Contractor

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Retirement

Re-posted 22 days ago

Job description

Senior Data Dog Cloud Engineer (Observability)

Work location: Hybrid- 1* week in Washington, D.C. 20002 Type: Contract-to-hire Clearance: Must be able to obtain/maintain Public Trust Compensation: $63/HR

What you’ll do (day-to-day)

You’ll be the go-to senior engineer for building and improving an enterprise observability program—using Datadog (or a comparable platform)—to help teams detect issues faster, reduce alert noise, and improve reliability in a 24x7 environment.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Build and run observability tooling across metrics, logs, traces/APM, RUM, synthetics, and network monitoring
  • Create and maintain dashboards, monitors, alerts, SLOs/SLIs that teams actually use (high signal, low noise)
  • Instrument applications and services using agents, OpenTelemetry, and language-specific APM tooling (Java, .NET, Python, Node.js, Go)
  • Improve production performance and reliability using telemetry to troubleshoot:
    • latency, saturation, capacity, errors, and dependency issues
  • Partner with cloud/platform/app teams to embed observability into:
    • AWS + Azure
    • Kubernetes/OpenShift
  • Integrate monitoring workflows with ServiceNow, CI/CD pipelines, and on-call/paging processes
  • Establish and enforce telemetry standards (tagging strategy, governance, cost control)

What we’re looking for (must-haves)

  • 8+ years in infrastructure/platform engineering (or similar), including 5+ years focused on observability/performance/SRE-type work
  • Hands-on experience operating an observability platform:
    • Datadog preferred, but Dynatrace / New Relic / Splunk Observability / Grafana+Prometheus are also relevant
  • Strong experience with APM + distributed tracing in production (including instrumentation and service mapping)
  • Production monitoring experience with Kubernetes/OpenShift
  • Cloud experience supporting monitoring/telemetry in AWS and/or Azure
  • Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience)
  • Ability to support an on-call rotation in a 24x7 environment

Nice-to-haves (stand out if you have them)

  • Experience in federal/government environments (FISMA, FedRAMP, NIST-aligned)
  • Datadog certifications (or comparable)
  • eBPF observability, service mesh telemetry (Istio/Linkerd)
  • Terraform/Bicep/ARM for deploying monitoring as code
  • AWS/Azure/OpenShift/Terraform certifications

System One, and its subsidiaries including Joulé and Mountain Ltd., are leaders in delivering outsourced services and workforce solutions across North America. We help clients get work done more efficiently and economically, without compromising quality. System One not only serves as a valued partner for our clients, but we offer eligible employees health and welfare benefits coverage options including medical, dental, vision, spending accounts, life insurance, voluntary plans, as well as participation in a 401(k) plan.

System One is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, family care or medical leave status, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. #M-1 #LI-AJ1 Ref: #851-Rockville-S1