Observability Platform Engineer

American Express Global Business Travel; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible benefits

Travel perks

Learning platform access

Inclusion Groups

Job summary

Amex GBT in Bangalore, India, seeks a senior Platform/DevOps engineer focused on observability to design, deploy, and optimize monitoring across ecosystems. You will instrument apps and infra, develop dashboards, and drive incident response with on-call rotations.

You’ll collaborate with engineering teams, implement SLI/SLOs, and evaluate new tools to improve reliability, performance, and cost-efficiency while mentoring colleagues and sharing knowledge.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or systems engineering roles.
• Hands‑on expertise with at least two of the following platforms: ELK Stack, New Relic, Datadog, or Alertsite.
• Strong understanding of monitoring, logging, metrics, and alerting concepts.
• Validated experience creating and maintaining monitoring dashboards and visualizations.
• Hands‑on experience implementing synthetic monitoring and end‑to‑end transaction monitoring, APM concepts and implementation, Real User Monitoring (RUM) and digital/browser/mobile app observability.
• Knowledge of SLI/SLO definition and measurement methodologies.
• Familiarity with MTTA, MTTR, MTTD, and other incident metrics.
• Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Bash, or similar).
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Knowledge of containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy observability platforms using industry-leading tools such as ELK Stack, New Relic, Datadog, and Alert site.
• Develop and maintain monitoring strategies, dashboards, and alerting rules to ensure system reliability and performance.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to instrument applications and infrastructure for comprehensive observability.
• Fix complex system issues using observability data and provide actionable insights.
• Establish best practices for logging, metrics collection, and distributed tracing.
• Optimize observability infrastructure for cost-efficiency and performance.
• Conduct training and knowledge-sharing sessions with development and operations teams.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response activities.
• Continuously evaluate and recommend new observability tools and technologies.

Skills

Platform engineering

DevOps

Systems engineering

Observability

Python

Tools

ELK Stack

New Relic

Datadog

Alertsite

Job description

Amex GBT is a place where colleagues find inspiration in travel as a force for good and – through their work – can make an impact on our industry. We’re here to help our colleagues achieve success and offer an inclusive and collaborative culture where your voice is valued. We’re transforming business travel technology. Amex GBT gives travellers access to their choice of flights, trains, hotels, and more from different suppliers within the travel policy set by their company. The richness of choice is exciting to users, and even more of an attractive technical challenge.

What You’ll Do

• Design and deploy observability platforms using industry-leading tools such as ELK Stack, New Relic, Datadog, and Alert site.
• Develop and maintain monitoring strategies, dashboards, and alerting rules to ensure system reliability and performance.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to instrument applications and infrastructure for comprehensive observability.
• Fix complex system issues using observability data and provide actionable insights.
• Establish best practices for logging, metrics collection, and distributed tracing.
• Optimize observability infrastructure for cost-efficiency and performance.
• Conduct training and knowledge-sharing sessions with development and operations teams.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response activities.
• Continuously evaluate and recommend new observability tools and technologies.

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or systems engineering roles
• Hands‑on expertise with at least two of the following platforms: ELK Stack, New Relic, Datadog, or Alertsite
• Strong understanding of monitoring, logging, metrics, and alerting concepts
• Validated experience creating and maintaining monitoring dashboards and visualizations
• Hands‑on experience implementing synthetic monitoring and end‑to‑end transaction monitoring, Application Performance Monitoring (APM) concepts and implementation, Real User Monitoring (RUM) and digital/browser/mobile app observability
• Knowledge of SLI/SLO definition and measurement methodologies
• Familiarity with MTTA, MTTR, MTTD, and other incident metrics
• Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Bash, or similar)
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Knowledge of containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with multiple observability platforms
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Background in incident management and on‑call operations
• Certifications in relevant cloud or observability platforms
• Experience with APM (Application Performance Monitoring) tools
• Knowledge of security and compliance monitoring

Technical Skills

• Observability Platforms: ELK Stack, New Relic, Datadog, Alertsite, Amplitude Analytics, Splunk (or similar)
• Programming/Scripting: Python, Bash, Go, or similar languages
• Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP
• Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes
• Monitoring Tools: Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor
• Databases: SQL, NoSQL monitoring and optimization
• Networking: TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS protocols

Location

Bangalore, India

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Travel perks: get a choice of deals each week from major travel providers on everything from flights to hotels to cruises and car rentals.

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