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# Application Monitoring Engineer

- **Company:** D2 Technical Services
- **Location:** Springfield, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $150,000.0 - $175,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Application Performance Management, Microsoft Azure, Bash Shell, Cloud Computing, Computer Programming, Databases, DevOps, Distributed Systems, HP Systems Insight Manager, Python (Programming Language), Reliability Engineering, Prometheus, Software Engineering, Datadog, Grafana, Cloudformation, Containerization, Kubernetes, Enterprise Integration, Terraform, Splunk, New Relic (SaaS), Dynatrace, Docker, Microservices
- **Published:** September 16, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9167059/application-monitoring-engineer

## About the Role

* 5+ years of experience in application monitoring, observability, or site reliability engineering, with hands-on expertise in at least one major APM platform (Datadog, New Relic, or Dynatrace) - deep familiarity with more than one is a strong plus
 * Experience configuring alerts and adjusting thresholds
 * Solid grasp of distributed systems, microservices architecture, and how to trace a request across services, containers, and cloud infrastructure
 * Experience with scripting or programming (Python, Bash, or similar) to automate monitoring configuration and build custom integrations
 * Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes) is expected
 * Understanding of the fundamentals of APIs, databases, and networking well enough to diagnose issues across the full stack
 * You've participated in on-call rotations and incident response processes, and ideally have exposure to complementary tools like Splunk, ELK, Grafana, or Prometheus
 * Communicate clearly under pressure, can explain a complex incident to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders, and take genuine ownership of the systems you monitor

Nice to Have

 * Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.) is a plus
 * Relevant certifications (Datadog, New Relic, AWS/Azure/GCP)

## Description

* Design, build, and maintain end-to-end application performance monitoring using platforms like Dynatrace, instrumenting applications and services so that the right signals surface before customers notice a problem
 * Define and maintain SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets in partnership with engineering and product teams, and build dashboards and alerting that reduce noise while catching what actually matters
 * When incidents happen, you'll lead or support triage and root-cause analysis, using distributed tracing and APM data to pinpoint issues across complex, distributed systems.
 * Drive continuous improvement of the observability stack itself - evaluating new tools, refining alert thresholds, and reducing alert fatigue across the engineering organization
 * Serve as a technical mentor, helping other engineers build monitoring into their own services from the start rather than bolting it on later
 * Partner closely with DevOps/SRE, infrastructure, and application development teams to make sure monitoring coverage keeps pace with new deployments and architectural changes