Infrastructure Engineer III, Monitoring & Observability
Overview
Owns enterprise observability platforms at scale to ensure 24/7 service availability. Leads integration of monitoring tools across cloud native architectures and microservices. Collaborates with SRE, engineering, and security teams to implement reliable, secure, and automated monitoring solutions. Focuses on performance, incident response, and root cause analysis to improve service quality. This role is unique in combining hands-on tooling with cross-team governance and security considerations.
What You'll Do5
- 1Build and maintain Splunk and Dynatrace configurations to support scalable monitoring and rapid incident response
- 2Design and implement Grafana dashboards and integrate data sources such as Prometheus and Elasticsearch to drive observability insights
- 3Lead performance tuning and clustering optimization for Splunk to improve search, indexing, and data retention
- 4Collaborate with cloud, Kubernetes, and microservices teams to instrument services for proactive monitoring and AI-driven root cause analysis
- 5Own automation and scripting for observability workflows using Python and Terraform to reduce toil and improve repeatability
Requirements5
- 15+ years building and maintaining monitoring and observability in large-scale environments
- 2Hands-on experience with Splunk indexers, forwarders, search heads, clustering, and performance optimization
- 3Proficiency with Grafana dashboard development and data sources such as Prometheus and Elasticsearch
- 4Strong experience with Dynatrace OneAgent deployment and service monitoring
- 5Scripting and automation experience using Python, Shell, REST APIs, Terraform, and Ansible
Salary Insight
$104 - $175k per year
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