Senior Observability Engineer / Platform Engineer

This is a remote position.

Overview :

We are looking for a hands-on Observability Engineer with strong experience in cloud-native platforms, monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational excellence. The ideal candidate will have experience building and managing enterprise observability solutions across Kubernetes and public cloud environments, enabling proactive monitoring, incident response, and reliability engineering practices.

Key Responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain enterprise observability platforms covering metrics, logs, traces, and events. Build observability solutions using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenSearch, Splunk, Elastic, Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic, or equivalent platforms. Develop dashboards, SLOs, SLIs, alerting rules, and service health monitoring frameworks. Integrate monitoring and observability capabilities within Kubernetes and cloud-native environments. Enable incident management, root cause analysis, and operational troubleshooting through observability best practices. Automate monitoring configuration and platform onboarding using Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD pipelines. Collaborate with engineering, platform, SRE, and operations teams to improve reliability, performance, and availability. Support observability maturity initiatives including distributed tracing, AIOps, and intelligent alerting.

Requirements

Required Skills

• 6+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, SRE, DevOps, Cloud Operations, or Observability Engineering.
• Strong expertise in: Prometheus Grafana Splunk / OpenSearch / Elastic Distributed tracing solutions (Jaeger, Tempo, OpenTelemetry, etc.) Good understanding of Kubernetes, Docker, and containerized workloads.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP environments. Knowledge of incident management, alert tuning, and troubleshooting production environments. Experience with scripting and automation using Python, Shell, or similar languages.
• Familiarity with CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or ArgoCD. Preferred Skills Exposure to SRE practices, error budgets, SLO/SLI frameworks.
• Experience with AIOps, automated remediation, or intelligent incident response. Knowledge of OpenTelemetry implementation.
• Working experience in enterprise-scale production platforms. Exposure to security and governance considerations in cloud-native environments.

Benefits

Diversity Inclusion:

At Exavalu, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We welcome applications for employment from all qualified candidates, regardless of race, color, gender, national or ethnic origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other status protected by applicable law. We nurture a culture that embraces all individuals and promotes diverse perspectives, where you can make an impact and grow your career.

Exavalu also promotes flexibility depending on the needs of employees, customers and the business. It might be part-time work, working outside normal 9-5 business hours or working remotely. We also have a welcome back program to help people get back to the mainstream after a long break due to health or family reasons.

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