Senior Lead Observability Engineer

We’re seeking talent DevOps, Site Reliability Engineers or Platform Engineer who want to join us to build an outstanding observability team, using their experience and technological skills to help make us build the centralized observability team. The role involves collaborating with development teams to instrument services, promoting standard methodologies for observability, and improving product quality and performance. Working alongside various leadership, development, product managers and operations team to bring insight from observability data to drive the customer experience improvement.

More specifically, measure what matters to our customers. Measuring infrastructure is much less meaningful to our customers than measuring whether our services are available, or are fast enough, or reliable enough. In implementation this can look like tracing, real user monitoring, synthetic tests, metrics collection, SLOs, but should be in terms of customer impact. Measuring infrastructure has a place but it is secondary and should drive avoidance or recovery activities.

Responsibilities 

• Develop and standardize observability platforms: 

• Build and standardize implementation for logging, metrics, and  tracing to ensure insight into system health. 

• Promote guidelines: 

• Advocate for and help establish observability standards and guidelines across the organization. 

• Collaborate and mentor: 

• Partner with other engineering teams and mentor engineers to improve their understanding of observability tools and practices. 

• Instrument applications and services: 

• Work with engineers to add telemetry to applications, using techniques like distributed tracing and structured logging. 

• Develop dashboards and alerts: 

• Build dashboards to visualize system data and configure automated alerting to proactively detect issues. 

• Automate infrastructure: 

• Use tools like Terraform and Ansible to automate the provisioning and configuration of observability infrastructure. 

• Improve system performance: 

• Analyze performance data to identify bottlenecks and optimize system reliability and performance. 

• Analyze telemetry data during incidents to help identify root causes and reduce Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR). 

• Work under direction of leadership, detailing the business requirements and specifications vital to acquire and implement solutions.

Skills and Qualifications 

• Expertise within various Monitoring/Observability i.e. DataDog, BigPanda. 
• Expertise configuring, and testing Monitoring and/or Observability platform with IaaS such as terraform, CloudFormation, ansible, puppet.
• Expertise with CI/CD development pipelines such as GitLab, Jenkins, GitHub, or similar development tools. 
• Expertise with implementing and maintaining monitoring platforms such as Azure Monitor, AWS CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana
• Experience operating, crafting, and building large scale enterprise/production grade systems. 
• Experience with Agile practices and tooling such as Daily standup, Retrospective, Kanban, Scrum, Jira.  

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Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we'd love to hear from you.

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