Senior SRE & Observability Engineer
Introduction
The Senior SRE & Observability Engineer will be responsible for leading the assessment, architecture, and strategic development of an enterprise-wide observability platform across a multi-cloud environment. This role involves collaborating with various teams to identify operational gaps, define target-state architecture, and establish a comprehensive observability strategy.
Responsibilities
1. Observability Assessment & Discovery
- Assess the existing multi-cloud infrastructure.
- Inventory current monitoring and operational tools.
- Evaluate observability maturity and monitoring coverage.
- Identify monitoring gaps and operational inefficiencies.
- Review incident management processes.
2. Observability Strategy & Roadmap
- Define the enterprise observability vision and strategy.
- Recommend appropriate observability tools and platforms.
- Develop a multi-year implementation roadmap.
- Establish best practices for monitoring and alerting.
3. Enterprise Architecture & Design
- Design a scalable observability architecture for multi-cloud environments.
- Establish standards for metrics collection and analysis.
- Define observability patterns for various technologies.
- Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture requirements.
4. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
- Define and implement SLIs and SLOs.
- Establish reliability measurement frameworks.
- Recommend resilience engineering practices.
- Develop strategies to improve incident response.
5. AIOps & Automation
- Evaluate opportunities for AIOps capabilities.
- Design event correlation and alert prioritization strategies.
- Recommend automated root-cause analysis.
- Develop an automation roadmap for incident detection.
6. Documentation & Executive Communication
- Prepare comprehensive assessments and gap analyses.
- Deliver target-state architecture proposals.
- Develop implementation roadmaps and technical recommendations.
- Present findings to senior management and stakeholders.
Requirements
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering or SRE.
- 5+ years of experience in designing observability platforms.
- Strong hands-on knowledge of Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and OCI.
- Extensive experience with observability technologies.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with AIOps and automated remediation.
- Knowledge of Kubernetes, containers, and databases.
- Experience in leading observability transformation programs.
Key Skills
Site Reliability Engineering, Enterprise Observability, Multi-Cloud Architecture, Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, OCI, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, Datadog, New Relic, Splunk, Elastic Stack, Distributed Tracing, APM, Kubernetes, SLI/SLO, AIOps, Event Correlation, Root-Cause Analysis, Incident Management, Enterprise Architecture, Technology Roadmapping.
