Job#: 3025523

Job Description:

Title: Observability Engineer

Client: Retail

Location: Columbus (4 days onsite)

Duration: 6‑month contract‑to‑hire

Rate: Negotiable

Top Must‑Haves

• Kubernetes experience
• Full‑stack observability experience
• Grafana

Nice to Haves

• Datadog
• Edge compute
• POS experience

About the Role

We’re looking for an Observability Engineer to enhance visibility into restaurant systems by building dashboards, integrating telemetry pipelines, and enabling proactive detection of issues. You’ll work across teams to maintain system stability, ensure reliable data flows, and support production operations.

What You’ll Do

• Build and enhance dashboards based on business needs.
• Monitor and maintain system stability across environments.
• Analyze logs, traces, and metrics; resolve production issues.
• Manage IT projects, documentation, and process improvements.
• Handle ticket queues and coordinate tasks with cross‑functional teams.
• Implement changes with proper testing, validation, and planning.
• Ensure compliance with IT and security policies.
• Stay current on observability and cost‑optimization technologies.
• Use observability tools for proactive alerting, insight generation, and service health monitoring.
• Design new data visibility solutions based on business requirements.

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• 3–5 years of relevant experience.
• Experience with Splunk, Datadog, Grafana.
• Python scripting skills.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and SQL.
• Restaurant POS experience (preferred).

Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing® in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work® in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click here for more details.

Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Apex team member can provide.

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