System Engineer – Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

💼 System Engineer – Observability & Infrastructure

📍 Location: Remote (Saint Louis, Missouri, USA) | Department: Digital Infrastructure | Employment Type: Full-Time

🌐 About Brillio

Brillio is a top-tier digital transformation partner empowering Fortune 1000 companies to turn market disruption into opportunity. Renowned for our elite team of “Brillians,” we deliver transformative solutions by fusing cutting-edge tech, digital thinking, and client-first execution. Repeatedly certified as a Great Place to Work®, Brillio thrives on innovation, inclusivity, and career acceleration for high-performing professionals.

🧠 Role Overview

We are looking for a System Engineer with specialized experience in Observability Engineering to help shape and maintain the performance, reliability, and visibility of our distributed systems and cloud infrastructure. This role will play a key part in implementing proactive monitoring and automated remediation strategies to support enterprise-scale digital environments.

🔧 Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and optimize observability frameworks to monitor and analyze distributed systems.
• Configure and deploy logging, tracing, alerting, and monitoring tools (e.g., ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger).
• Implement OTEL standards and integrate telemetry into application architectures.
• Collaborate with development teams to enable “self-healing” systems and trigger automated remediation via observability alerts.
• Build insightful dashboards and performance reports to identify trends and detect anomalies.
• Continuously improve tooling and processes to ensure system reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Conduct root cause analysis for incidents using telemetry data and contribute to incident resolution playbooks.
• Stay updated with industry best practices and introduce enhancements to Brillio’s observability strategy.

🎯 Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
• 2–3 years of hands-on experience as an Observability or Systems Engineer.
• Expertise in observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, and Jaeger.
• Strong scripting and automation skills in Python, Java, Go, or equivalent languages.
• Solid understanding of AWS (preferred), cloud-native architecture, and Kubernetes.
• Proven troubleshooting ability in complex distributed environments.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a team-oriented mindset.

🔍 Preferred Technical Stack

• Primary Tools: Struts, Ansible, Grafana, Azure ARM, ELK, Azure Repo, Python, Terraform, Azure PowerShell, Kubernetes, Azure AD.
• Rate: $55–$60/hour (Contract Role)

💡 Why Join Brillio?

• Collaborate on cutting-edge projects within a cloud-first, agile culture.
• Drive performance engineering and observability transformation at enterprise scale.
• Be part of a culture that values innovation, continuous learning, and professional growth.
• Engage in purpose-driven work that enables client transformation across global markets.

🤝 Diversity & Inclusion

Brillio is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity and inclusion across all areas of the organization, providing a workplace free from discrimination and full of opportunity for all identities and backgrounds.