Tech Lead/ Principal Lead Engineer Observability

Please have a look at the Job description below:

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Experience in leading Observability initiatives as Lead Engineer.

• Development and implementation of build release pipelines with accountability for managing deployment schedules, issues, risks, and impediments.

• Agile development experience with team member accountability for commitment and delivery each sprint.

• Ensure that all implementations of observability meet the requirements prescribed by IT Services through the effective implementation or use of approved processes, methodologies, and deliverables.

• Provide expertise and design solutions for observability applications as well as system integration with internal systems and external vendors.

• Provide technical leadership in design, development, and testing of solutions.

• Track infrastructure delivery and dependencies to implementation.

• Prepare and present potential technical solutions and advise the teams on approach and tradeoffs

• Defines the structure of systems, their interfaces, and the principles that guide its organization, software design and implementation.

• Defines and supports reusable application components from a business and technology perspective.

• Able to provide coding and technical direction to less experienced staff or develops highly complex original code.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience with gathering and organizing large volume of data to use for instrumentation into an Enterprise Observability solution.

• Experience with recommending baseline monitoring thresholds, and performance monitoring KPIs and SLAs.

• Experience with installing agents, forwarders, APIs, performance monitoring alerts, dashboards, and data trend analysis.

• Good Knowledge and understanding of Azure foundation components e.g., App GW, APIM, Virtual Network, NSG, Load Balancer, Azure VM etc
is required.

EXPERIENCE:

• Experience must include at least one of the following languages: Java (required), Desired--Python, Go, C, C++.

• Experience with Databases Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, TSDB or similar databases.

• Experience on one of cloud platforms Microsoft Azure/GCP cloud is required.

• Experience on PCF, Docker, Kubernetes platform is required.

• Experience with DevOps and CI/CD tools and processes is required.

• Experience in high-performance and high-frequency data streaming (using Kafka etc.) and handling large volume of batch data is strongly preferred, but not required.

• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies is required.

REQUIRMENTS:

• 4-year degree (Computer Science, Information Systems, or relational functional field) and/or equivalent combination of education or work experience.

• 5+ years Tech lead experience required.

• 8+ years development experience required
Google Cloud experience is an added advantage
We have a need to get the GCP experience for this position as we have focused only on AKS/Azure experience for the previous candidates.

• 10+ years of experience on integration engineering related to Observability/Monitoring framework and on two or more APM Tools (AppDynamics, Datadog, Splunk, Dynatrace, Kibana, Elastic etc.).

• 5+ years of experience as a System Reliability Engineer is required.

• Hands-on experience with Tools and Technology is preferred.

• Experience working with Open-source platforms and Open Telemetry libraries e.g., Grafana is preferred.