Senior Network Observability Engineer

Title: Senior Network Observability Engineer
Location: New York, USA(Hybrid)
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Job Overview
We are seeking a Senior Network Observability Engineer to design, implement, and enhance network observability across AWS cloud environments and connected on-premises infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with network monitoring, telemetry integration, log analysis, performance baselining, and alerting frameworks.
The role will focus on establishing end-to-end visibility into network health, availability, connectivity, and service performance throughout cloud migration, production readiness, and ongoing operations. The engineer will also support the transition from Datadog to Grafana, Loki, and Prometheus, ensuring effective monitoring and operational visibility across the environment.
Key Responsibilities

• Define network monitoring, telemetry, and observability requirements across AWS cloud and connected on-premises infrastructure.
• Integrate network, system, and event logs into approved enterprise monitoring and observability platforms.
• Enable and analyze AWS VPC Flow Logs in collaboration with network and security teams to improve traffic visibility and support least-privilege network rule changes.
• Design and develop dashboards, alerts, and monitoring frameworks to track network health, availability, connectivity, and service performance.
• Establish performance baselines, investigate anomalies, correlate telemetry, and proactively identify network and service issues.
• Analyze network traffic patterns and troubleshoot connectivity, latency, availability, and performance issues across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Align observability solutions with the organization's transition from Datadog to Grafana, Loki, and Prometheus.
• Collaborate with cloud, network, security, infrastructure, and application teams to improve monitoring coverage and incident detection.
• Validate monitoring and alerting capabilities during production readiness assessments, migration stabilization, and controlled failure testing.
• Develop and maintain observability runbooks, troubleshooting procedures, monitoring documentation, and operational handover materials.

Required Qualifications

• 5 7 years of hands-on experience in AWS cloud environments, network monitoring tools, and observability solutions.
• Proven experience integrating network, system, and event logs into enterprise monitoring platforms.
• Practical experience creating dashboards, alerting frameworks, service health indicators, and performance baselines.
• Strong understanding of proactive issue detection, network troubleshooting, and service performance analysis.
• Experience monitoring network connectivity and performance across cloud and on-premises infrastructure.
• Ability to analyze telemetry, investigate anomalies, tune alerts, and reduce unnecessary notifications.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams to support production operations, migration activities, and incident resolution.

Preferred Technical Skills

• Hands-on experience with AWS VPC Flow Logs and network traffic analysis.
• Working knowledge of Amazon VPC networking, routing, connectivity, and network security controls.
• Experience with Grafana dashboards, Loki log aggregation, and Prometheus metrics and alerting.
• Exposure to Datadog and observability platform migration activities.
• Experience with telemetry correlation, performance baseline development, and monitoring validation.
• Familiarity with regulated enterprise environments and associated operational controls.
• Experience supporting controlled failure tests, production readiness reviews, and operational stabilization.

Expected Deliverables

• Network telemetry inventory covering AWS and connected on-premises infrastructure.
• Configured monitoring dashboards and alerting rules for network and service health.
• Documented performance baselines and monitoring coverage.
• Monitoring and alerting validation evidence, including results from controlled failure testing.
• Observability runbooks, troubleshooting procedures, and operational handover documentation.

Preferred Certifications
The following certifications are desirable but not mandatory. Certifications will complement, but not replace, demonstrated hands-on technical experience.

• AWS Certified Advanced Networking Specialty
• Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) Enterprise
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate