Senior Observability Engineer

Job Summary

We are seeking a Senior Observability Engineer with strong experience designing, implementing, and managing enterprise-scale observability platforms. The ideal candidate will have hands-on expertise with Grafana, Terraform, OpenTelemetry, monitoring, logging, alerting, and distributed tracing, along with experience migrating from legacy observability and monitoring platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise-scale observability and monitoring solutions.

• Administer and manage Grafana across large-scale enterprise environments.

• Develop and maintain infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.

• Implement and optimize monitoring, alerting, logging, and distributed tracing solutions.

• Design and manage OpenTelemetry instrumentation and telemetry pipelines.

• Support migrations from platforms such as Splunk, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic, OpenText OBM, or similar monitoring and observability tools.

• Develop dashboards, alerts, metrics, logs, and traces to improve system visibility and operational reliability.

• Troubleshoot observability infrastructure and resolve monitoring and telemetry-related issues.

• Collaborate with Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, Application Development, and Operations teams to establish effective observability standards.

• Automate observability platform deployment, configuration, and management using IaC and automation tools.

• Establish best practices for scalability, reliability, security, and performance of observability platforms.

• Document observability architectures, configurations, standards, and operational procedures.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• 5+ years of experience in observability, monitoring, operations, SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering.

• Hands-on experience administering Grafana in large-scale enterprise environments.

• Strong experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry, including instrumentation concepts and telemetry pipelines.

• Experience implementing and managing monitoring, alerting, logging, and distributed tracing solutions.

• Experience migrating from observability and monitoring platforms such as Splunk, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic, OpenText OBM, or similar tools.

• Strong understanding of enterprise observability architecture and modern telemetry practices.

• Experience troubleshooting complex monitoring and observability issues in production environments.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.

• Experience with Kubernetes and containerized environments.

• Familiarity with Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Elasticsearch, or similar observability technologies.

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation.

• Experience establishing observability standards and best practices across large enterprise environments.

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