Overview
ECS is seeking an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Monitoring & Observability Engineer to work remotely.
ECS is seeking a proactive Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Monitoring & Observability Engineer to support high-consequence, mission-critical DHS systems. This role is designed for a hands-on technical expert who excels in the day-to-day design, implementation, and automation of cloud-native observability, performance telemetry, and security posture monitoring across Gov Cloud environments.
This role is the primary custodian of system visibility, ensuring end-to-end monitoring of production workloads, tracking disaster recovery and replication health between Ashburn and Phoenix, and building a highly resilient monitoring plane that survives regional failures. Responsibilities also include proactively detecting performance regressions across the database and application stack, executing infrastructure-as-code automation, and maintaining strict compliance with federal continuous monitoring and FedRAMP security standards.
Responsibilities of this role include:
- Observability Architecture: Build and administer the enterprise monitoring fabric using the Observability Management Platform, OCI Monitoring (MQL), Alarms, Notifications, Events, Logging, and Logging Analytics (confirming service parity in OC2).
- Application Performance Monitoring: Deploy the APM Service to trace distributed transactions, synthetic end-user journeys, and microservice latencies across containerized and cloud-native applications.
- Cross-Region Resilience: Architect and maintain redundant monitoring planes across Ashburn and Phoenix regions, ensuring alarms, telemetry streams, and dashboards operate independently if either region suffers an outage.
- Disaster Recovery Health: Continuously track replication lag across Oracle Data Guard, Object Storage cross-region replication, and Block Volume replicas, automatically reporting on standby readiness and failover test metrics.
- Database Fleet Monitoring: Implement Database Management and Ops Insights across Exadata, Base DB Systems, and Autonomous Databases to detect SQL bottlenecks, assess CPU/I/O saturation, and forecast capacity growth.
- Security Posture & Drift: Monitor compliance guardrails using Cloudguard and Security zones; track and audit access policies, dynamic groups, and identity domain federation via IAM.
- Vulnerability & Host Hygiene: Automate Linux and Windows kernel patching, CVE tracking, and package compliance with OS Management Hub; schedule host and image vulnerability assessments using Vulnerability Scanning.
- Perimeter & API Observability: Ingest telemetry and Layer 7 inspect logs from Network Firewall; correlate perimeter traffic with Threat Intelligence feeds; monitor latency, rate limits, and throttling on API Management gateways.
- Data Protection & Key Governance: Instrument Data Safe to monitor sensitive data discovery, database masking, and user risk scores; audit cryptographic lifecycle events and secret usage through Key Management.
- Alert Quality & SLOs: Establish SLIs, SLOs, and multi-tier severity routing; lead bi-weekly alert noise reduction reviews, ensuring every firing alert correlates directly with actionable operational context.
- Infrastructure as Code: Write Python automation leveraging the OCI SDK / Cloud Shell and Terraform / OCI Resource Manager to deploy monitoring configurations, dashboards, and drift detection inventory scripts as code.
- Incident Response & Runbooks: Provide Tier-3 incident triage, metric/log correlation, and root cause analysis (RCA); author and maintain standardized operational runbooks for every page-worthy alert.
- Compliance & ATO Support: Maintain continuous monitoring reporting and audit log retention aligned with FedRAMP High and NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 controls (AU, SI, CA, and IR families) to support ongoing DHS authorizations to operate (ATO).
- External Tool Integrations: Ingest and correlate OCI telemetry into enterprise monitoring platforms such as Splunk and Dynatrace, building unified executive and operational dashboards.
Salary Range: $140,000 - $185,000
General Description of Benefits
Preferred Qualifications- U.S. citizenship with ability to obtain the required public trust suitability
- Holds a bachelor’s degree
- A minimum of 6 years of relevant professional experience
Skills Required
- Ability to obtain the required Public Trust suitability
- Bachelor's degree
- At least 6 years of relevant professional experience
- U.S. citizenship
ECS Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about ECS and has not been reviewed or approved by ECS.
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Healthcare Strength — ECS advertises multiple national-network medical plan options with HSA eligibility alongside dental and vision coverage. Coverage generally begins quickly and is paired with company-paid short- and long-term disability, adding stability to the health package.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with Safe Harbor and immediate vesting on employer contributions is emphasized, with an employer match available. Access to an employee stock purchase plan via the parent company provides an additional savings avenue.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave up to 30 days, adoption assistance, and other family-oriented leaves are highlighted. Feedback suggests these offerings add meaningful value beyond base pay for many roles.
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What We Do
ECS, a segment of ASGN (NYSE: ASGN), delivers advanced solutions and services in cloud, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), application and IT modernization, and science and engineering. The company solves critical, complex challenges for customers across the U.S. public sector, defense, intelligence and commercial industries. ECS maintains partnerships with leading cloud, cybersecurity, and AI/ML providers and holds specialized certifications in their technologies. Headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, ECS has more than 3,400 employees throughout the U.S. and has been recognized as a Top Workplace by The Washington Post for the last five years.
