Job Description
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Job Title: Tech Lead/ Principal Lead Engineer Observability
Hybrid Onsite: Worker is required to work onsite 3 days per week in Phoenix, AZ as they will be working cross functionally with 3 different teams.
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.
” Do you have an Albertsons specific Job Title? Tech Lead/ Principal Lead Engineer Observability
” Is this a new position added to the team -or- a backfill? Backfill
” Contract Duration: 6-months to start.
” Is there a possibility for extension? Possibly.
” Is there a possibility for this role to be converted to FTE? Yes. This is a Contract-to-Hire position.
” Are you open to accepting H1B and/or Corp-to-Corp Candidates? Yes.
” Is this role associated with a project? Yes – Enterprise Observability
” Does this role require the contractor to interface with PHI or Personal Data? Yes
” What are the top 3-5 responsibilities expected of this worker?
* Lead the Observability Ingestion team.
* Provide technical solutions day to day.
* Responsible for the technical delivery of the team.
* Resolve any technical blockers.
* Work with the Architects to provide solution options and perform POC and learning on any new technologies required for the team.
” What are your top 3-5 skills in an ideal candidate?
* SRE skills
* Observability development skills
* Technical lead experience
* Performance Monitoring
* Problem Solving
* Grafana, Prometheus, Cortex, Loki, Tempo, Mimir
* 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.
” Years of experience required: 12 15 years.
” Education/Certifications: Bachelors in Engineering, BTECH, BE
” Will you accept work experience in lieu of degree? What is the lowest completed degree you will accept? No. Degree required. Bachelors in Engineering, BTECH, BE
” What is the work schedule for this position? M F, 8:00am 5:00pm MST (Local Arizona Time).
” Is this role open to 100% Remote WFH candidates? No. The worker is required to work onsite 3 days per week.
” Will this role require any onsite work? How many days/week onsite is required? The worker is required to work onsite 3 days per week.
” If Onsite is required, please provide location. Please source candidates from Phoenix, AZ.
” Will this position require any traveling? No