Oversee enterprise-wide monitoring, observability, and operational intelligence to ensure service reliability for federal and DoD-aligned IT environments. Define monitoring strategies, manage toolsets, and collaborate with engineering teams to drive visibility into system health and performance.
Overview
DecisionPoint seeks a Senior Enterprise Service Reliability and Insights Lead to oversee enterprise-wide monitoring, observability, and operational intelligence for a large federal and DoD-aligned IT environment. This senior-level role defines the monitoring strategy, manages toolsets, develops dashboards, establishes alerting thresholds, and ensures service reliability through proactive detection and rapid incident identification.
The Enterprise Service Reliability and Insights Lead is responsible for driving visibility into uptime, system performance, service health, and operational risks. This position partners closely with Tier 2 and Tier 3 engineering teams, cloud operations, cybersecurity, and service desk leadership to ensure monitoring aligns with mission needs, SLAs, and enterprise performance objectives.
This position is fully remote.
Duties & Responsibilities
The Enterprise Service Reliability and Insights Lead will:
- Define, implement, and manage the enterprise monitoring and observability strategy.
- Oversee monitoring tools, dashboards, agents, log pipelines, and alerting configurations across all environments.
- Establish alert thresholds, escalation criteria, and performance indicators that support proactive issue detection.
- Ensure monitoring coverage aligns with uptime, performance, and security requirements.
- Collaborate with Tier 2 and Tier 3 engineering teams on system health assessments, log analytics, and incident triage.
- Lead efforts to correlate events across application, infrastructure, network, and security monitoring tools.
- Deliver actionable insights on system reliability, capacity issues, performance bottlenecks, and incident trends.
- Support SLA and KPI measurement, reporting, and compliance tracking.
- Maintain monitoring documentation, dashboards, service health definitions, and alerting standards.
- Partner with cloud, infrastructure, and cybersecurity teams to ensure observability supports mission and compliance needs.
- Recommend improvements to monitoring architectures, event correlation, and automation capabilities.
- Participate in incident response activities, root cause analysis sessions, and readiness reviews.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives across reliability engineering and service monitoring.
Qualifications
Clearance Requirement
Must hold an active Secret clearance, supported by a Tier 3 background investigation.
Education (Required)
Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field.
Experience (Required)
- Minimum 10 years of experience in service reliability, monitoring engineering, IT operations, or systems engineering.
- Experience designing or managing enterprise monitoring systems and dashboards.
- Experience defining SLAs, KPIs, and operational performance measurements.
- Experience collaborating with Tier 2 and Tier 3 teams for incident management and problem resolution.
- Experience with log analysis, event correlation, and observability platforms.
Technical Knowledge (Required)
- Strong understanding of monitoring and observability tools (metrics, logs, traces).
- Knowledge of uptime, performance, and reliability engineering practices.
- Familiarity with ITIL v4 processes for incident, problem, and change management.
- Understanding of alerting strategies, threshold design, and escalation workflows.
- Knowledge of DoD or federal IT operational environments.
Technical Knowledge (Preferred)
- Experience with cloud-native monitoring services and distributed systems monitoring.
- Experience with APM tools, SIEM integrations, or event correlation engines.
- Familiarity with automation scripting or analytics for monitoring enhancement.
Certifications
Required:
Preferred:
- Cloud monitoring certifications (AWS, Azure, or similar)
- SRE or observability-related certifications
Skills
- Strong analytical skills for interpreting system health and service reliability data.
- Excellent communication and reporting skills for executive and technical audiences.
- Ability to lead cross-functional coordination during performance events and incidents.
- High attention to detail with strong documentation habits.
- Ability to drive continuous improvement across monitoring, reliability, and availability functions.
Our Equal Employment Opportunity Policy
- EEO and Affirmative Action Policy: DecisionPoint Corporation is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. It is the policy of DecisionPoint Corporation to provide equal employment opportunity in accordance with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action laws, directives and regulations to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other protected status under Federal, State or Local laws.
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