Observability Engineer
- Full-time
Job Description
Observability Engineer | Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos, Loki
Role Description: Observability Engineer
Enterprise Kubernetes Platform | Financial Services
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are seeking an experienced Observability Engineer to join our Enterprise Kubernetes Platform team at a leading financial services organization. You’ll own the complete observability stack across 50+ production Kubernetes clusters, providing metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting capabilities that ensure exceptional reliability and performance for mission-critical applications.
This role combines deep technical expertise in modern observability tools with emerging AI/ML capabilities to build intelligent monitoring solutions, predictive alerting, and self-healing infrastructure.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
OBSERVABILITY STACK OWNERSHIP
• Design, deploy, and maintain enterprise-scale observability infrastructure including Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos, Loki, and modern collection agents.
• Manage observability deployments using GitOps principles and infrastructure as code.
• Implement long-term metrics storage solutions with cloud object storage.
• Maintain and upgrade observability components across development, QA, UAT, production, and DR environments.
• Configure distributed observability architecture spanning multiple datacenters and cloud providers.
METRICS & MONITORING
• Design and implement Prometheus monitoring strategies for Kubernetes infrastructure and containerized applications.
• Create ServiceMonitors, PodMonitors for automated metrics collection.
• Develop rules for intelligent alerting with minimal false positives.
• Configure multi-cluster metrics federation and aggregation.
• Optimize metrics cardinality, storage efficiency, and query performance.
• Implement recording rules for pre-aggregated metrics and SLI calculations.
DASHBOARDS & VISUALIZATION
• Build comprehensive Grafana dashboards for infrastructure health, application performance, and business metrics.
• Create reusable dashboard
Requirements
Java