Sr Engineer - Applications & Automation

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Blue Bell, PA, USA
In-Office
Senior level
Information Technology
The Role
Design, implement, and maintain observability and monitoring solutions across servers, applications, databases, networks, and cloud. Configure platforms for metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts; integrate with ITSM and CI/CD pipelines; perform tuning, root cause analysis, capacity planning, and automation (IaC, scripting). Support incident and problem management, reduce alert noise, and contribute to AIOps and self-healing initiatives while ensuring compliance and operational governance.
Summary Generated by Built In

What success looks like in this role:

• Responds to and resolves higher level / more complex client and user operational issues.
• Works with Enterprise Applications team members to define end-user requirements, functionality specifications and deliverables.
• Designs new and modifies existing solution strategies to ensure achievement of SLA requirements.
• Maintains all technical deliverables including technical design specifications and configuration changes.
• Performs application configuration, extension, integration and performance tuning.
• Handles issues escalated from less experienced team members, clients and other stakeholders.
• Helps design, plan and implement enhancements to standard operating procedures.

Observability Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and manage monitoring and observability solutions for servers, applications, databases, network devices, and cloud environments.
  • Configure and maintain observability platforms for metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts.
  • Develop dashboards and reports to provide visibility into system health, service performance, availability, and operational KPIs.
  • Set up and fine-tune alerting mechanisms, thresholds, escalation rules, and notification workflows to ensure timely incident detection and response.
  • Monitor infrastructure and application performance to ensure adherence to SLA, SLO, and availability targets.
  • Perform analysis of logs, alerts, and telemetry data to identify trends, anomalies, and potential service risks.
  • Support incident management, problem management, and root cause analysis by providing actionable monitoring insights.
  • Integrate monitoring tools with ITSM, event management, automation, and ticketing platforms.
  • Reduce alert noise through alert optimization, event correlation, and dependency mapping.
  • Support cloud and platform migrations by ensuring observability coverage during transformation initiatives.
  • Collaborate with DevOps, SRE, and engineering teams to embed observability into system architecture and deployment pipelines.
  • Perform capacity planning, utilization analysis, and trend forecasting for infrastructure and application environments.
  • Automate monitoring configuration, maintenance, and deployment using scripting or Infrastructure as Code practices.
  • Maintain operational documentation, runbooks, dashboard standards, and monitoring governance processes.
  • Ensure compliance with logging, monitoring, audit, and operational security requirements.
  • Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives including AIOps, self-healing, automation, and proactive event management.

You will be successful in this role if you have:

  • BA/BS degree and 4–6 years of relevant experience, or equivalent.
  • Experience supporting and configuring enterprise applications in complex environments.
  • Proficiency with observability/monitoring platforms (e.g., Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic, Splunk, Elastic, Prometheus, Grafana).
  • Hands-on experience with metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerting systems.
  • Strong scripting/automation skills (Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar).
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation).
  • Working knowledge of AWS, Azure, or GCP monitoring and logging services.
  • Experience integrating monitoring tools with ITSM and event management platforms.
  • Ability to perform root cause analysis, trend analysis, and capacity planning using telemetry data.
  • Experience embedding observability into CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows.
  • Ability to design and optimize alerting rules, thresholds, and correlation logic.
  • Understanding of logging/monitoring compliance, audit, and security requirements.
  • Experience with automation, AIOps, and self-healing or event-driven operations.

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Skills Required

  • BA/BS degree or equivalent with 4-6 years relevant experience
  • Experience supporting and configuring enterprise applications in complex environments
  • Proficiency with observability/monitoring platforms (Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic, Splunk, Elastic, Prometheus, Grafana)
  • Hands-on experience with metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerting systems
  • Strong scripting/automation skills (Python, PowerShell, Bash or similar)
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation)
  • Working knowledge of AWS, Azure, or GCP monitoring and logging services
  • Experience integrating monitoring tools with ITSM and event management platforms
  • Ability to perform root cause analysis, trend analysis, and capacity planning using telemetry data
  • Experience embedding observability into CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows
  • Ability to design and optimize alerting rules, thresholds, and correlation logic
  • Understanding of logging/monitoring compliance, audit, and security requirements
  • Experience with automation, AIOps, and self-healing or event-driven operations

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  • Retirement Support Retirement Support: A 401(k) plan with an employer match is commonly described as part of the core package. The match is often characterized as a meaningful component of total rewards relative to other benefits.
  • Healthcare Strength Healthcare Strength: Core medical, dental, and vision coverage is described as available and broadly in line with a large IT-services employer. The underlying carrier network is sometimes viewed as solid even when cost concerns exist.

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Unisys is a global information technology company that builds high-performance, security-centric solutions for the most demanding businesses and governments on Earth. Unisys offerings include security software and services; digital transformation and workplace services; industry applications and services; and innovative software operating environments for high-intensity enterprise computing. We build better outcomes securely for our clients across the Government, Financial Services and Commercial

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