Open Telemetry Consultant

08 Feb 2025

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Job Description:

Responsibilities
  • Work closely with development teams to ensure that platforms are designed with Observability in mind
  • Gain deep knowledge of both our complex internally developed applications and enterprise-class services
  • Familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within Software Engineering and AWS
  • Work to support teams with adding OTEL attributes and configurations utilizing OpenSource OTEL documentation
  • Produce high-quality dashboards and streams to showcase primary service flows with distributed tracing
  • Support teams onboarding into our distributed tracing platform, Lightstep.
  • Ability to query on traces to find application issues
  • Comfortable reviewing code, championing issues, and shaping project roadmaps and backlogs
  • Continuously look for opportunities to automate changes and implement them
  • Implement and improve monitoring and alerting
  • Build, automate, and improve observability dashboards to provide better visibility in the operational aspects of the systems
  • Function well in a fast-paced, rapidly-changing environment.
Minimum Qualifications
  • B.S. or higher in Computer Science or other technical discipline, or related practical experience
  • Monitoring/Logging tools techniques and configuration
  • Open Telemetry experience with code level instrumentation
  • Development Languages: Java, Python, and/or Node JS
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • 3+ years of experience in AWS

Preferred Qualifications
  • 5+ Years of hands on experience with multiples of these example technologies:
  • EC2, ElastiCache, Cloud Front, Auto Scaling, Containers, API gateways
  • Networking: Load balancers (ALB/ELB), SSL/TLS, DNS, Firewall
  • AWS Certification or AWS Experience w/ Lambda, ECS, and Fargate.
  • Observability Tool Experience(APM)
  • Experience with AWS X-Ray or other similar tools.
  • Monitoring: Splunk, Grafana, Dynatrace, Data Dog, LogicMonitor
  • Scripting languages: Python, PowerShell, Bash; specifically for systems automation
  • Strong interpersonal communication skills (including listening, speaking, and writing) and ability to work well in a diverse, team-focused environment with other SREs, Engineers, Operators, Product Managers, etc.
  • Problem solver with excellent written and interpersonal skills; ability to make sound, complex recommendations in a fast-paced, technical environment
  • Humble, collaborative, team player, willing to step up and support your colleagues
  • Effective communication, problem solving and interpersonal skills
  • Commit to grow deeper in the knowledge and understanding of how to improve our existing applications
  • Enthusiasm for cutting edge technologies, complex problems, and building things
  • Good command of English (Speaking, Writing and Reading)

  • ID: #49089333
  • State: Georgia Atlanta 30308 Atlanta USA
  • City: Atlanta
  • Salary: Depends on Experience
  • Job type: Contract
  • Showed: 2023-02-08
  • Deadline: 2023-04-08
  • Category: Et cetera