Principal Observability Engineer

Arm Limited; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 2,000,000 - 3,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Arm Limited is seeking an experienced observability specialist to set standards and craft monitoring strategies across Engineering IT. You will guide teams in using Dynatrace, OpenTelemetry, and related methods to deliver actionable insights.

Collaborate with application, infrastructure, cloud, and CI/CD teams to improve service visibility, reliability, and operational excellence through dashboards and SLIs/SLOs.

Qualifications

• 14yrs of experience in observability, monitoring, SRE, or platform engineering.
• Proven experience defining monitoring strategies for enterprise environments.
• Strong hands-on with Dynatrace as an enterprise observability platform.

Responsibilities

• Partner with IT service owners to assess observability maturity and gaps.
• Understand architecture to establish suitable observability approaches.
• Develop dashboards, alerts, and service health views for reliability.

Skills

Observability

SRE

Tools

Dynatrace

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Job Overview:

We have an outstanding role that will collaborate with application, infrastructure, cloud, networking, platform engineering, and operations teams to improve service visibility, reliability, and operational excellence. We support teams in deciding what should be monitored, how service health should be evaluated, and how telemetry can be applied to deliver actionable operational insights.

This role is not centered on Dynatrace platform administration. Instead, it emphasizes setting observability standards, collaborating with engineering teams, crafting monitoring strategies, and supporting the efficient use of Dynatrace, OpenTelemetry, and current observability methods across Engineering IT.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with Engineering IT service owners and engineering teams to assess observability maturity and identify monitoring gaps.
• Understand application, infrastructure, cloud, networking, and platform architectures to establish suitable observability approaches.
• Conduct workshops and technical discussions to understand business and operational requirements.
• Recommend monitoring, telemetry, alerting, and dashboard solutions that improve service reliability and operational visibility.
• Define and maintain Engineering IT observability standards and guidelines.
• Develop standard dashboard templates for common service types.
• Define meaningful Service Level Indicators and support teams in establishing appropriate Service Level Objectives.
• Standardize service health perspectives, alerting methods, tagging approaches, and telemetry standards.
• Encourage uniformity in monitoring and observability throughout Engineering IT.
• Guide engineering teams in implementing observability using Dynatrace and OpenTelemetry or equivalent experience.
• Build meaningful dashboards, service health views, and operational reporting.
• Use Dynatrace Query Language (DQL) to examine telemetry and generate operational insights.
• Collaborate with teams on telemetry build, instrumentation, and observability guidelines.
• Assess observability requirements across cloud, infrastructure, networking, storage, and CI/CD platforms.
• Establish monitoring strategies for enterprise technologies such as VMware, NetApp Storage, Jenkins, Terraform, and hybrid cloud environments.
• Provide mentorship on monitoring cloud-native and hybrid workloads using services such as AWS CloudWatch and Azure Monitor.
• Evaluate observability requirements for enterprise networking, including SD-WAN and network performance monitoring.
• Support observability build for batch processing and scheduled workloads.
• Independently coordinate and lead technical discussions, workshops, and review sessions.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 14yrs of experience in observability, monitoring, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), platform engineering, or a related field.
• Experience defining monitoring strategies and observability solutions for enterprise environments.
• Strong hands-on experience using Dynatrace as an enterprise observability platform.
• Experience working with Dynatrace Grail and querying telemetry through Dynatrace Query Language (DQL).
• Experience developing dashboards, service health views, alerts, and operational reporting.
• Good understanding of OpenTelemetry concepts, including instrumentation, collectors and telemetry pipelines.
• Experience in monitoring and observability involving multiple of the following technologies: AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, VMware, NetApp Storage, Jenkins,Terraform, Kubernetes, Linux, Enterprise networking

'Nice to Have' Skills and Experience:

• OpenStack monitoring experience!

In Return:

This role provides the opportunity to build the future of observability within Engineering IT. We influence engineering practices across a broad technology landscape, establish enterprise-wide standards, and help build a modern observability capability that supports reliable, resilient, and data-driven operations. Join us and be part of an ambitious team dedicated to achieving flawless operational excellence!

10x Mindset at Arm

At Arm, we believe progress happens when people are empowered to think bigger and push beyond what seems possible. Our 10x mindset is about curiosity, ambition and creating impact that will be used by millions. We learn fast, prioritise collaboration and turn bold ideas into real technology. We look for people who are inspired by this way of working and want to grow in an environment where bold ideas are welcomed. Read more about how we bring the 10x mindset to life on the Arm blog.

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Accommodations at Arm

At Arm, we want to build extraordinary teams. If you need an adjustment or an accommodation during the recruitment process, please email [e-mail]. To note, by sending us the requested information, you consent to its use by Arm to arrange for appropriate accommodations. All accommodation or adjustment requests will be treated with confidentiality, and information concerning these requests will only be disclosed as necessary to provide the accommodation. Although this is not an exhaustive list, examples of support include breaks between interviews, having documents read aloud, or office accessibility. Please email us about anything we can do to accommodate you during the recruitment process.

Equal Opportunities at Arm

Arm is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and colleagues. We are a diverse organization of dedicated and innovative individuals, and don’t discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Hybrid Working at Arm

Arm’s hybrid approach to working is centred around flexibility, where we split our time between the office and other locations to get our work done. Within that framework, we empower groups and teams to determine their own particular hybrid working pattern, depending on the work and the team’s needs. Details of what this means for each role will be shared upon application. In some cases, the flexibility we can offer is limited by local legal, regulatory, tax, or other considerations, and where this is the case, we will collaborate with you to find the best solution. Please talk to us to find out more about what this could look like for you.

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Accommodations at Arm

At Arm, we want to build extraordinary teams. If you need an adjustment or an accommodation during the recruitment process, please email [e-mail]. To note, by sending us the requested information, you consent to its use by Arm to arrange for appropriate accommodations. All accommodation or adjustment requests will be treated with confidentiality, and information concerning these requests will only be disclosed as necessary to provide the accommodation. Although this is not an exhaustive list, examples of support include breaks between interviews, having documents read aloud, or office accessibility. Please email us about anything we can do to accommodate you during the recruitment process.

Hybrid Working at Arm

Arm’s approach to hybrid working is designed to create a working environment that supports both high performance and personal wellbeing. We believe in bringing people together face to face to enable us to work at pace, whilst recognizing the value of flexibility. Within that framework, we empower groups/teams to determine their own hybrid working patterns, depending on the work and all..

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