Tantus Technologies, Inc.

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Cloud Monitoring (Observability) Engineer

ID
2025-2523
Active Clearance Required
None
Citizenship Required
Yes
Type
Regular Full-Time

Overview

Tantus Technologies, Inc. (Tantus) - recognized by the Washington Post as a Top Workplace - is seeking a skilled Observability Engineer with deep expertise in New Relic and other observability tools to help design, implement, and manage our monitoring and observability infrastructure. You will work closely with engineering, DevOps, and site reliability teams to ensure application performance and reliability through actionable telemetry and insights.


Clearance: This position supports a federal contract and requires U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent resident (Green Card holder) status, as well as the ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance.

Top Place 2023

What You'll Do

  • Design and implement observability solutions using New Relic and other observability tools, including custom dashboards, alerts, and instrumentation.
  • Collaborate with development and DevSecOps teams to define monitoring requirements and SLIs/SLOs.
  • Optimize performance and troubleshoot issues using logs, metrics, and traces.
  • Integrate New Relic with CI/CD pipelines and other monitoring tools.
  • Lead efforts to mature the observability practice across the organization (standardization, training, documentation).
  • Work with federal stakeholders to set up and manage an Observability Center of Excellence.
  • Participate in on-call rotation and incident response to provide insights from observability data.
  • Stay up-to-date with New Relic feature releases and observability trends.

Required Knowledge and Skills

  • Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience
  • 5+ years of experience in observability, Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering roles.
  • A working knowledge of AI/ML-driven monitoring solutions
  • At least 10 years overall IT SLDC and Cloud experience
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native architectures.
  • Solid knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS and Azure).
  • Experience working with containerized environments (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Familiarity with Terraform, CloudFormation, or other infrastructure as code tools.

Abilities

  • Hands-on experience with New Relic (APM, Infrastructure, Browser, Logs, Synthetics, Dashboards).
  • Exposure to AIOps tools (e.g., New Relic AI, Moogsoft, BigPanda, or similar).
  • Proficiency in instrumenting code (e.g., custom events, traces) in at least one language (e.g., Java, Python, Node.js).

Nice to Haves

  • Certifications in New Relic or AI/ML frameworks, nice to have.
  • Experience with other observability tools (Datadog, Site 24x7 and WhatsUpGold).
  • Exposure to ITIL or ITSM practices.
  • Strong communication and documentation skills.

Salary Range

  • Salary range is $140,000-160,000/year. The salary range for this position reflects a variety of factors that influence compensation decisions, including skills, experience, training, certifications, and organizational needs.

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Why Tantus? We Provide:


  • Competitive total compensation package reflective of the expected contributions you will make to the organization.
  • A workplace culture that supports balancing great work with a great life.
  • A continuous learning environment investing $3,000 annually in your professional development and training.
  • A strong career development and advancement program.
  • Excellent medical, dental and vision programs.
  • A Fidelity-managed 401(k) plan with 3% company match.
  • 15 days of PTO annually and 11 paid federal holidays.
  • Corporate and team social events.
  • Community engagement activities to give back by volunteering.
  • Discretionary quarterly bonuses for above and beyond contributions and outstanding performance.



About Us

Tantus is an IT development and management consulting firm helping federal programs become more successful, cost-effective, and mission-focused through program management oversight and system development and implementation. Our people are committed to making our world better by delivering solutions to improve the effectiveness of government services and citizen experience. Tantus is Latin for “so great” or “so much” – we strive to put great things into everything we do.

As part of the employment process at Tantus, all successful job applicants must undergo a background investigation. This may include a pre-employment drug screening and/or a credit check for certain positions within our organization.

Tantus Technologies, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.


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