Observability Engineer

Maxar Technologies•McLean, VA, United States• Full time

Posted 18 hours ago• Aerospace Engineering

Compensation

$137,000–$228,000/year

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Vantor is forging the new frontier of spatial intelligence, helping decision makers and operators navigate what’s happening now and shape what’s coming next. Vantor is a place for problem solvers, changemakers, and go-getters—where people are working together to help our customers see the world differently, and in doing so, be seen differently. Come be part of a mission, not just a job, where you can: Shape your own future, build the next big thing, and change the world.

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This position requires an active U.S. Government Security Clearance at the TS/SCI level with required polygraph.  

We are seeking an Observability Engineer to support the design, implementation, and operation of monitoring, telemetry, and cost-optimization capabilities for mission-critical cloud systems. This role focuses on establishing system visibility, performance baselines, and actionable metrics across applications, infrastructure, and data pipelines, with an emphasis on resiliency, scalability, and cloud cost efficiency.

The ideal candidate is hands-on, comfortable working directly in cloud environments, and experienced partnering with development teams to instrument applications, analyze performance, and drive data-backed recommendations for system and cost optimization.

Responsibilities:

Design and implement observability and monitoring solutions for cloud-based systems, applications, and data pipelines.

Build and maintain CloudWatch dashboards, metrics, alarms, and KPIs to support operational visibility and decision-making.

Establish baseline performance metrics for systems, applications, and workflows to support trend analysis and optimization.

Analyze cloud usage and spending to identify cost optimization opportunities, including right-sizing, storage tiering, and architectural recommendations.

Support resiliency and scaling strategies, including evaluation and use of spot instances and dynamic scaling options.

Evaluate multi-cloud cost considerations, recommending architecture patterns that balance performance, resiliency, and cost.

Partner with development teams to design and implement application telemetry, including metrics, logging, and synthetic monitoring.

Track telemetry outputs to identify KPIs and provide actionable recommendations for performance, reliability, and user experience improvements.

Conduct network stress testing, application load testing, and system performance testing to identify bottlenecks and degradation risks.

Analyze test results to diagnose issues such as slow page loads, throughput constraints, and scaling limitations.

Document findings, dashboards, baselines, and recommendations to support ongoing operational maturity.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience).

5+ years of experience supporting cloud-based systems with a focus on observability, performance, or reliability.

Strong, hands-on experience implementing monitoring and observability solutions in AWS, including CloudWatch.

Experience building and maintaining dashboards, metrics, alerts, and KPIs for production systems.

Experience analyzing cloud costs and making practical, actionable cost optimization recommendations.

Hands-on experience with system, network, or application load and stress testing.

Experience collaborating directly with development teams to instrument applications and interpret telemetry data.

Willingness to work onsite full time.

Preferred Qualifications:

Demonstrated experience supporting multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments.

Hands-on experience implementing synthetic monitoring or automated testing solutions (e.g., Selenium, Puppeteer, or similar).

Demonstrated experience designing systems for high availability, resiliency, and horizontal scaling.

Hands-on experience leveraging spot instances, autoscaling groups, or other dynamic infrastructure strategies.

Experience supporting mission-critical or high-visibility production systems.

Demonstrated experience establishing performance baselines, SLIs, and SLOs.

Hands-on experience using Infrastructure-as-Code or automation tools to support observability or operational workflows.

Pay Transparency: In support of pay transparency at Vantor, we disclose salary ranges on all U.S. job postings. The successful candidate’s starting pay will fall within the salary range provided below and is determined based on job-related factors, including, but not limited to, the experience, qualifications, knowledge, skills, geographic work location, and market conditions. Candidates with the minimum necessary experience, qualifications, knowledge, and skillsets for the position should not expect to receive the upper end of the pay range.

● The base pay for this position within the Washington, DC metropolitan area is: $137,000.00 - $228,000.00 annually.

For all other states, we use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop market-driven ranges for our roles, and as such, each location where we hire may have a different range.

Benefits: Vantor offers a competitive total rewards package that goes beyond the standard, including a robust 401(k) with company match, mental health resources, and unique perks like student loan repayment assistance, adoption reimbursement and pet insurance to support all aspects of your life. You can find more information on our benefits at: https://www.Vantor.com/careers

The application window is three days from the date the job is posted and will remain posted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire. If the job is reposted regardless of reason, it will remain posted three days from the date the job is reposted and will remain reposted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire.

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EEO Policy: Vantor is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace. We believe in fostering an environment where all team members feel respected, valued, and encouraged to share their ideas. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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