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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: $150,000 - $205,000
General Description of Benefits
Requirements:- U.S. citizenship with ability to obtain the required public trust suitability
- Holds a bachelor's degree
- A minimum of 10 years of relevant professional experience
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote monitoring engineer jobs.
- Experience with monitoring tools such as Nagios, Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog
- Proficiency in network protocols and infrastructure components including TCP/IP, DNS, and routing
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud for hosted workload monitoring
- Scripting ability in Python, Bash, or PowerShell to automate alerting and reporting tasks
- Experience working in a network operations center or similar 24/7 operations environment
- Associate or bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field
Tips for Your Remote Monitoring Engineer Job Search
Show your async incident response in writing
Remote monitoring teams rely on written communication during incidents, not voice calls. Include runbooks, postmortems, or alert playbooks you've authored in your portfolio or GitHub. Concrete documentation proves you can work through an outage without being in the same room as your team.
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote monitoring engineer openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your stack and seniority and apply directly without sorting through on-site listings.
Build fluency in the tools remote teams use
Remote monitoring employers screen for hands-on experience with specific platforms: Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, PagerDuty, or Nagios. Name the exact tools you've used in your resume and be ready to walk through how you configured alerts and thresholds in your interview.
Prepare for async-first remote interviews
Many remote monitoring teams use take-home assessments or written scenario questions before a live call. Practice explaining an incident you diagnosed, the signals that surfaced it, and the steps you took, in clear written form. Clear writing under pressure is itself a job skill remote employers are testing.
Remote Monitoring Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote monitoring engineer job?
Target companies that run distributed infrastructure teams, including cloud-native firms, managed service providers, and SaaS companies with 24/7 uptime requirements. Remote employers screen for comfort with async communication, self-directed troubleshooting, and hands-on experience with tools like Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, Nagios, or Splunk. Documenting your on-call workflows, incident response history, and alerting configurations in a portfolio or README gives you a concrete edge over candidates who list skills without evidence.
Which companies hire remote monitoring engineers?
Remote monitoring engineer roles are posted by Ascending, Everforth ECS, and CACI International and others right now, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These include remote-first technology firms, managed service providers, and enterprise organizations in cloud, telecommunications, and cybersecurity that maintain distributed infrastructure teams across time zones.
Can you get a remote monitoring engineer job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level monitoring roles are harder to land because employers expect you to triage alerts and escalate incidents independently from day one. Your best path is building hands-on lab experience with open-source monitoring stacks, earning a vendor certification like AWS CloudWatch or Datadog Fundamentals, and contributing to open-source observability projects. Smaller remote-first companies and MSPs are more likely to hire entry-level candidates than large enterprise teams.
Do you need a degree for remote monitoring engineer jobs?
Not always. Remote employers in this role weigh demonstrated technical skills heavily, particularly experience with monitoring platforms, scripting languages like Python or Bash, and incident management processes. A portfolio showing real alerting configurations, runbooks you've written, or systems you've kept stable carries more weight with many remote teams than a degree alone. Certifications in cloud platforms or observability tools close the gap further.
Which industries hire the most remote monitoring engineers?
The sectors hiring the most remote monitoring engineers are Technology & Software, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These industries rely on distributed teams to maintain continuous uptime across geographies, making remote monitoring engineers essential to their operations.
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