Senior Automation & Observability Engineer
About the role
Purpose is to be a relentless ally, disrupting the status quo and unleashing our clients to Do Great Things
Do Great Things
About the role and what you'll be doing
Monitoring & Observability
- Design, implement, and maintain enterprise monitoring and observability solutions.
- Develop and maintain dashboards, alerts, and visualizations using Grafana.
- Monitor infrastructure, applications, middleware, and IoT services using IBM Instana, Grafana, SolarWinds, and related observability tools.
- Configure and manage data collection using Telegraf, Prometheus, and monitoring agents.
- Analyze metrics, logs, traces, events, and telemetry data to identify performance bottlenecks and service degradation.
- Support SLO, SLA, and operational health monitoring initiatives.
- Perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and troubleshooting for infrastructure and application issues.
Foak & Enterprise Logging/Telemetry
- Support onboarding, monitoring, and operational management of FOAK (First Office Application Kit) services and enterprise applications.
- Configure, validate, and troubleshoot Enterprise Logging & Telemetry (ELT) integrations across infrastructure, middleware, applications, and cloud platforms.
- Monitor telemetry pipelines, log ingestion, event correlation, and data quality to ensure complete observability coverage.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to improve telemetry standards, monitoring effectiveness, and proactive incident detection through ELT and observability frameworks.
- Support FOAK application integrations with Grafana, Instana, Prometheus, and enterprise monitoring platforms.
Monitor and support
- Linux Servers
- Windows Servers
- VMware Infrastructure
- Citrix VDI Platforms
- DNS Services
- Proxy Services
- Middleware Platforms
- Integration Services
- Enterprise Applications
- IoT Platforms
Additional Responsibilities
- Investigate performance issues, recurring alerts, and infrastructure anomalies.
- Validate monitoring platform health and monitoring coverage.
- Monitor capacity, availability, CPU, memory, storage, and service health metrics.
- Support platform upgrades, maintenance, and operational readiness reviews.
Database & Data Management
- Configure and maintain InfluxDB time-series databases.
- Manage data retention policies, performance tuning, and capacity planning.
- Develop operational dashboards and reports for infrastructure and application performance insights.
- Support telemetry data ingestion, storage optimization, and historical trend analysis.
Event & Incident Management
- Monitor operational alerts, events, notifications, and incidents from enterprise monitoring platforms.
- Acknowledge, investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve assigned incidents.
- Coordinate with Infrastructure, Network, Cloud, Security, Application, and Service Delivery teams during incident resolution.
- Participate in major incident bridges, DR exercises, and 24x7 operations support activities.
- Follow escalation procedures, SOPs, operational runbooks, and ITIL processes.
- Support Problem Management activities and contribute to RCA documentation.
Instana & APM Operations
- Administer and support IBM Instana monitoring environments.
- Monitor application, API, middleware, and microservices performance using Instana.
- Validate Instana agent health following server patching and maintenance activities.
- Support application onboarding and APM configuration standards.
- Configure alerts, baselines, and performance thresholds.
- Raise and track incidents related to Instana platform availability and performance.
Develop automation solutions using
- Python
- PowerShell
- Shell Scripting (Bash)
- VBScript
Responsibilities
- Automate operational tasks, monitoring deployments, and remediation workflows.
- Build reusable automation tools to improve operational efficiency.
- Integrate monitoring platforms with enterprise automation frameworks.
- Support webhook-based automation and event-driven operational workflows.
Configuration Management & Infrastructure Automation
Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation using:
- Ansible
- Puppet
Responsibilities
- Automate server provisioning and configuration management.
- Automate monitoring agent deployment and onboarding.
- Maintain automation playbooks and deployment pipelines.
- Improve operational consistency and reduce manual efforts across environments.
Knowledge Management
- Maintain SOPs, runbooks, monitoring procedures, and escalation matrices.
- Participate in KT sessions, service onboarding, and operational readiness reviews.
- Support service transition, migration, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Maintain observability standards and monitoring documentation.
Monitoring & Observability
- Grafana
- IBM Instana
- SolarWinds
- Telegraf
- Prometheus
- InfluxDB
- OpenTelemetry
- Grafana Alloy
- APM Monitoring
- Event Management
- Alert Management
- Observability Concepts
- SLO/SLA Monitoring
FOAK & Enterprise Telemetry
- FOAK (First Office Application Kit) Support
- Enterprise Logging & Telemetry (ELT)
- Log Aggregation & Correlation
- Telemetry Data Analysis
- Event Correlation
- Application Onboarding
- Monitoring Standards & Observability Frameworks
Infrastructure
- VMware
- Linux Administration
- Windows Server
- Citrix VDI
- DNS Services
- Proxy Services
- Middleware Technologies
- Infrastructure Performance Monitoring
Scripting & Programming
- Python
- PowerShell
- Shell Scripting (Linux)
- VBScript
Automation Tools
- Ansible
- Puppet
- Webhooks
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
ITSM & Operations
- ServiceNow
- Incident Management
- Problem Management
- Change Management
- ITIL Framework
- Major Incident Management
Nice to Have
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Jenkins
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab CI/CD
- REST APIs
- Microservices Monitoring
- DevOps & SRE Practices
Preferred Experience
- 7 to 10+ years of experience in Monitoring, Observability, Infrastructure Operations, SRE, or Platform Engineering.
- Experience supporting large-scale enterprise environments and 24x7 operations.
- Hands-on experience with Grafana, Instana, SolarWinds, Telegraf, Prometheus, and InfluxDB.
- Experience supporting VMware, Citrix, middleware, enterprise applications, and cloud monitoring platforms.
- Experience working with FOAK applications and Enterprise Logging & Telemetry (ELT) platforms.
- Strong troubleshooting, RCA, incident management, and operational support skills.
- Experience with automation frameworks and Infrastructure as Code (Ansible preferred).
- Experience integrating observability platforms with enterprise automation solutions.
Key Competencies
- Observability & Monitoring
- Infrastructure Automation
- Enterprise Telemetry Management
- FOAK Application Support
- Root Cause Analysis
- Problem Solving
- Performance Optimization
- Service Reliability Engineering (SRE)
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Operational Excellence
- Continuous Improvement
Why Ensono ?
Some of our benefits include
- Unlimited Paid Days Off
- Three health plan options
- 401k with company match
- Eligibility for dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life and AD&D coverage, and flexible spending accounts
- Family Forming Benefit including fertility coverage and adoption/surrogacy reimbursement
- Paid childbearing and paternal leave
- Education Reimbursement, Student Loan Assistance or 529 College Funding
- Sabbatical leave
- Wellness program
- Flexible work schedule
As of the date of this posting, a good faith estimate of the current pay scale for this role is $113,000 to $147,000 annually based on a full-time schedule. Please note that placement in the range may vary based on numerous factors including but not limited to skills, experience, internal equity, and business needs. In addition to base salary, other compensation programs, depending on eligibility, include
an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance
Skills
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