Platform Engineer Observability

The Observability Platform Engineer is responsible for designing building and maintaining observability platform tools and frameworks that enable development and operations teams to monitor and improve the performance availability and reliability of systems. This role involves designing and implementing systems that monitor and analyze the performance/health of software applications and infrastructure ensuring high availability and reliability. The engineer will collaborate closely with development site reliability engineering DevOps and infrastructure teams to deliver a seamless observability ecosystem. Key responsibilities include architecting observability platforms integrating monitoring tools into software pipelines ensuring system health visibility reducing mean time to detection (MTTD) and promoting a culture of proactive monitoring and reliability engineering. 

What you will own:  

• Design build and maintain observability platforms with reusability across services in mind.  

• Develop scalable automated pipelines for ingesting transforming and visualizing telemetry data. 

• Integrate observability tools (e.g. Dynatrace Splunk Prometheus Grafana Splunk Datadog New Relic OpenTelemetry) with existing infrastructure and applications. 

• Enable root cause analysis through correlation of metrics logs and traces. 

• Analyze telemetry data to identify performance bottlenecks and optimize resource allocation for improved efficiency  

• Define SLIs SLOs and error budgets with stakeholders for critical services. 

• Improve incident response by enhancing monitoring dashboards alerts and automated notifications. 

Qualifications :

Preferred: 

• 35 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering DevOps or Observability/Monitoring engineering roles. 
• Proven experience building or administering observability platforms in production environments. 
• Track record of improving system reliability and reducing mean time to resolution (MTTR). 
• Hands-on experience with one or more observability platforms: Dynatrace Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry Elastic Stack Splunk Datadog New Relic AppDynamics Honeycomb. 
• Strong knowledge of observability concepts: metrics logs traces SLOs/SLIs error budgets. 
• Experience working within an Agile team environment 
• Experience deploying and maintaining Open Telemetry-based observability pipelines. 
• Prior experience working in highly regulated environments with compliance observability needs. 
• Contributions to observability open-source projects. 
• Familiarity with chaos engineering practices to validate monitoring and resilience. 
• Certifications from AWS Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud 
• Demonstrated experience coaching/mentoring others by providing guidance and feedback to help an employee or groups of employees strengthen their knowledge and skills to accomplish a task or solve a problem 
• Excellent problem-solving skills with a strong analytical mindset. 
• Strong written and verbal communication skills including the ability to explain complex technical topics to both engineers and business stakeholders. 
• Proven experience with designing technical architecture and keeping abreast of existing and emerging technologies. 
• Experiencing consulting with stakeholders to understand needs with the intention of providing advice and counsel. Also interacting appropriately with others to guide individuals or groups to accomplish work reach consensus or take action. 
• Proficiency in programming or scripting languages (Python Go Java Bash etc.) for observability automation. 
• Experience with containerization and orchestration platforms (Docker Kubernetes). 
• Deep knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS Azure GCP) observability/monitoring services operating systems (Windows/Linux) networking and containerization. 
• Strong understanding of distributed systems microservices and cloud-native architectures. 
• Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines and how observability integrates into DevOps workflows. 
• Knowledge of incident management and on-call practices. 
• Experience with supporting observability and monitoring for Artificial Intelligence agents 

Required: 

• Bachelors Degree or direct and applicable work experience 
• Minimum 7 years of experience to include any combination of the following: 
• Development Experience: (Ex: Angular 2 (or newer) NodeJS (or newer) TypeScript C# .NET Java SQL) 
• Providing innovative solutions to complex issues 
• Minimum 4 years of experience in IT infrastructure architecture design and operations 
• Proven ability to adapt when experiencing major changes in work tasks or work environment. 
• Informal leadership experience typically gained through leading projects. 
• Demonstrated experience coaching/mentoring others by providing guidance and feedback to help an employee or groups of employees strengthen their knowledge and skills to accomplish a task or solve a problem 
• Proven experience with designing technical architecture and keeping abreast of existing and emerging technologies. 
• Experiencing consulting with stakeholders to understand needs with the intention of providing advice and counsel. Also interacting appropriately with others to guide individuals or groups to accomplish work reach consensus or take action. 
• Demonstrated experience in problem solving/troubleshooting skills (conceptual technical IT) - Breaks down problems and identifies all of their facets including hidden or tricky aspects to find root-cause of problems. Generates a range of solutions and courses of action with benefits costs and risks associated with each. Probes appropriate sources for answers and thinks outside the box to find options. Tests proposed solutions against the reality of likely effects before going forward. 
• Demonstrated communication skills: verbal and written - Articulate; Communicates information/concepts clearly and concisely to individuals or groups; delivers presentations suited to the characteristics and needs of the stakeholders/audience. Clearly and concisely conveys written information orally or in writing to individuals or groups to ensure that they understand the information and the message. Listens and responds appropriately to others. 

Additional Information :

a.  Lead the technical designs for highly integrated complex application platforms to optimize security information leverage and re-use integration performance and availability and ensure solutions developed adhere and aligns to the architecture standards. Fulfill service level agreements and ensure solutions remains current with industry best practices technologies and with Wellmarks standards. 

b.  Consult with Solution Architects and project teams in the creation & documentation of design deliverables for application platforms.  Collaborate with Solution and Lead Architects to design and implement effective technology solutions while using innovative business and technology processes to identify and implement improvement initiatives eliminate redundancies and maximizes re-use of applications. 

c.  May oversee and lead planning developing and estimating of technical solutions. When appropriate collaborate and work with other technical teams to better provide subject matter expertise and insights. 

d.  Collaborate with Lead Architect for assigned domain business systems analyst and other stakeholders to provide insight/ direction regarding process improvements. 

e.  Consults with business stakeholders regarding subject matter knowledge related to technical planning in order to ensure architectures are developed in alignment with business expectations. 

f.  Oversee review and provide technical guidance on the design efforts of Wellmarks supported solutions; including but not limited to the evaluation of vendors during the selection process integrating with new vendors design implementation and administration. 

g.  Will adhere and are held accountable for the support and influence of Wellmarks architecture governance standards and technical standards. Provide design specifications to governing boards for proper approvals. Provides guidance for regarding IT policies security and infrastructure. 

h.  Will provide training and mentorship of others regarding technical design and solution implementation; including review and quality assurance. 

i.  Build strong relationships and business acumen with the business to ensure technical designs are aligned with business needs.  Provide exceptional customer service and solutions. 

j.  Develops and applies industry best practice technology design and methodology approaches to design platform specific technical designs. Researches and recommends new emerging technologies techniques and tools that will add value to the organization. 

k.  Other duties as assigned. 

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time