Observability Engineer

We are looking for an experienced Observability Engineer to design, implement, and maintain enterprise observability solutions across cloud, application, infrastructure, and distributed environments. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience with monitoring, logging, metrics, distributed tracing, alerting, and observability platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement end-to-end observability solutions for applications, infrastructure, APIs, and cloud environments.
• Develop and maintain dashboards, alerts, metrics, logs, and distributed tracing solutions.
• Work with Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace, and OpenSearch or similar observability platforms.
• Implement and manage telemetry pipelines for metrics, logs, and traces.
• Configure and optimize Grafana dashboards, Prometheus monitoring, and alerting rules.
• Implement application instrumentation using OpenTelemetry and related frameworks.
• Monitor Kubernetes clusters, containers, microservices, APIs, and cloud infrastructure.
• Troubleshoot production issues and perform detailed Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
• Define and monitor SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, availability, latency, and MTTR.
• Collaborate with DevOps, SRE, development, infrastructure, and application teams to improve system reliability.
• Automate monitoring, alerting, deployment, and operational processes using scripting and Infrastructure as Code.
• Support incident management, production deployments, post-incident reviews, and preventive actions.
• Identify performance bottlenecks and recommend improvements to application and infrastructure architecture.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, monitoring standards, and operational procedures.

Required Technical Skills

• 7+ years of experience in Observability, SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or related roles.
• Strong experience with Grafana and Prometheus.
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry and telemetry pipelines.
• Strong understanding of Metrics, Logs, and Distributed Tracing.
• Experience with Kubernetes and Docker.
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or GitHub Actions.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform or Ansible.
• Experience with monitoring/logging platforms such as Dynatrace, OpenSearch, ELK, Loki, or similar tools.
• Strong understanding of microservices, APIs, distributed systems, and cloud-native architectures.
• Good scripting/programming experience with Python, Bash, Go, or similar languages