INFRASTRUCTURE MONITORING ENGINEER

Job Description

**Job Title: INFRASTRUCTURE MONITORING ENGINEER**

**Location: Mclean,VA**

**Duration: 12+ Months**

**Visa: USC, GC, H1B and EAD**

**Job Description:**

· Must have at least 5 years on experience with NetBrain and ThousandEyes Preferred experience with ELK, ExtraHop, Gigamon, NetIm, Splunk, and NetFlow.

· The Observability Engineer’s primary focus is to support network

· observability and visibility transformation efforts by implementing and optimizing a multi-tiered observability strategy.

· The engineer will apply hands-on expertise across key platforms supporting visibility, analytics, diagnostics, and digital experience monitoring to enhance operational maturity across environments.

· The Observability Engineer will work directly with personnel to understand the

· organization’s current architecture, tools, processes, and visibility requirements, and will support integration and refinement of observability capabilities across all applicable platforms and environments.

**Responsibilities for Observability Engineer:**

· Integrate data and telemetry sources into Freddie Mac’s enterprise observability ecosystem (netIM, Splunk, ELK, NetFlow, ThousandEyes, NetBrain, and other supported platforms)

· Assist with building and maintaining unified dashboards and visualization outputs for operational, engineering, and business stakeholders

· Support automated diagnostics, alerting, and reporting workflows to improve incident response activities

· Participate in tool modernization efforts including rationalization, consolidation, and replacement of legacy monitoring platforms

· Provide support for packet capture, traffic visibility, and deep network analytics using Extrahop, GigaMon, and comparable technologies

· Assist with digital experience and performance monitoring across cloud, application, and edge environments

· Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to support architecture decisions, readiness, and platform adoption

· Support log aggregation, parsing, and analytics using Splunk and ELK stack technologies

· Contribute to automated network mapping and topology-driven diagnostics using NetBrain

· Support compliance and data integrity standards associated with observability, telemetry, and platform governance

· Assist with continuous improvement of alert rules, thresholds, and analytics logic Contribute to knowledge transfer efforts, documentation development, and operational playbook creation

· Support performance baselining and predictive analytics initiatives to enhance operational visibility and service assurance

Job Type: Contract

Pay: $7,419.84 – $11,140.03 per month

Work Location: In person