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# Engineering Manager, Observability Platforms

- **Company:** TEKSYSTEMS INC.
- **Location:** Raleigh, NC, United States (Remote available)
- **Salary:** $169,000.0 - $200,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Monitoring of Systems, Reliability Engineering, Cloud Services, Prometheus, Software Engineering, Datadog, Data Logging, Cloud Platform System, Grafana, Kubernetes, Splunk, New Relic (SaaS), Dynatrace
- **Published:** July 16, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/A518C87BAFF5444B9890D60130E5CA78/job/

## About the Role

Engineering management experience within Observability, SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Software Engineering organizations

Strong understanding of logs, metrics, traces, telemetry, and monitoring strategies

Experience with Prometheus and observability platforms such as New Relic, Dynatrace, Datadog, Splunk, Grafana, Coralogix, or similar solutions

Knowledge of OpenTelemetry and instrumentation best practices

Experience building observability solutions in AWS environments and ingesting telemetry from cloud services

Exposure to containers/Kubernetes and platform engineering concepts

Ability to influence strategy, build roadmaps, and effectively manage upward across multiple stakeholder groups

Nice-to-Have Experience:

AI Observability and telemetry for LLM applications

Monitoring and observability for OpenAI, Claude, and other AI-powered platforms

Developer enablement and platform modernization initiatives

## Description

We are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead their growing Observability Platform team. This is a highly visible leadership role focused on defining observability strategy, driving platform modernization, and enabling engineering teams to operate reliable, scalable systems.

This leader will own the roadmap for enterprise observability while managing a distributed team across the U.S. and offshore resources.

What You'll Be Leading:

Observability strategy, governance, and roadmap planning

Enterprise logging, metrics, tracing, and incident response capabilities

Modern observability tooling including Datadog, Coralogix, Splunk, OpenTelemetry, and similar platforms

Cloud-native observability across AWS (Azure/GCP experience also welcomed)

Platform adoption, operational excellence, and cost optimization initiatives


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