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.