Senior Open Telemetry (OTel) Instrumentation Engineer

Senior Open Telemetry (OTel) Instrumentation Engineer

Information Systems

Software Engineer

$ 45 - $ 49 / Hour

location_onWoodland Hills, California

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Akkodis is seeking a Senior Open Telemetry (OTel) Instrumentation Engineer for a Contract with a client in Woodland Hills, CA. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining enterprise-wide observability solutions by instrumenting applications, cloud platforms, and network infrastructure using OpenTelemetry standards.

Rate Range: $45/hour to $49/hour; The rate may be negotiable based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors.

Senior Open Telemetry (OTel) Instrumentation Engineer Job Responsibilities include:

• Design, implement, and maintain OpenTelemetry (OTel) instrumentation across SaaS applications, cloud platforms, and distributed systems to enable end-to-end observability.

• Develop and manage OpenTelemetry Collector pipelines, including data ingestion, processing, routing, sampling strategies, and telemetry governance across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments.

• Implement distributed tracing, metrics, logging, and Application Performance Monitoring (APM) solutions for microservices, serverless applications, databases, and asynchronous workloads.

• Define and enforce observability standards, semantic conventions, telemetry schemas, SLIs, and SLOs to support operational excellence and platform reliability.

• Collaborate with engineering, cloud, network operations, and AIOps teams to correlate application, infrastructure, and network telemetry for proactive monitoring and troubleshooting.

• Build reusable instrumentation libraries, optimize telemetry pipelines, troubleshoot performance bottlenecks, and drive enterprise-wide adoption of OpenTelemetry best practices.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, or a related technical field. Advanced certifications in Observability, Cloud Platforms, or Monitoring technologies are preferred.

• 10+ years of experience in Observability Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Distributed Systems Monitoring.

• Deep expertise in OpenTelemetry (SDKs, APIs, Collector, OTLP), distributed tracing, metrics, logging, Application Performance Monitoring (APM), and instrumentation across Java, Python, Go, Node.js, and cloud-native environments.

• Proven experience managing OpenTelemetry Collector pipelines, cloud observability across AWS/Azure/GCP, telemetry governance, SLI/SLO implementation, network telemetry integration, and large-scale monitoring solutions supporting enterprise SaaS and distributed applications.

If you are interested in this role, then please click APPLY NOW. For other opportunities available at Akkodis, or any questions, feel free to contact me at Deep.Kumar@akkodisgroup.com.

Pay Details: $45.00 to $49.00 per hour

Benefit offerings available for our associates include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, EAP program, commuter benefits and a 401K plan. Our benefit offerings provide employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. In addition, our associates may be eligible for paid leave including Paid Sick Leave or any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law, as well as Holiday pay where applicable.

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Military connected talent encouraged to apply

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