Lead Site Reliability Engineer, AI Observability

TQL; Cincinnati (OH); On-site; USD 110,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

TQL in the United States is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to lead the design, implementation and operation of enterprise observability platforms across cloud and on-prem environments. You will drive standards for logging, metrics, tracing, monitoring and alerting, partnering with development and platform teams to embed observability into pipelines and release cycles.

You will build reusable frameworks, define SLIs/SLOs and ensure AI-enabled workflows are instrumented end-to-end.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent.
• 1-3 years’ site reliability engineering, DevOps or platform engineering experience required.
• Hands-on experience building and operating enterprise observability platforms.
• Experience implementing observability and distributed tracing for AI-enabled applications.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of enterprise observability standards across logging, metrics, tracing and alerting.
• Own and evolve the observability platform strategy and roadmap, including Datadog and SolarWinds.
• Define and implement instrumentation standards for applications, APIs and infrastructure to ensure consistent telemetry collection.
• Partner with development teams to embed observability into CI/CD pipelines as a first-class deployment requirement.
• Design and implement automated monitoring, alerting and self-healing patterns to improve service reliability and availability.
• Develop reusable observability frameworks, libraries and deployment templates for engineering teams.
• Establish monitoring-as-code, alerting-as-code and dashboard-as-code standards.
• Design service-level indicators (SLIs), service-level objectives (SLOs) and error budgets in partnership with product and engineering teams.

Skills

Observability design

Python scripting

Troubleshooting

CI/CD integration

Documentation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent

Tools

Datadog

SolarWinds

OpenTelemetry

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Docker

GitHub Actions

Job description

TQL in the United States is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to lead the design, implementation and operation of enterprise observability platforms across cloud and on-prem environments. You will drive standards for logging, metrics, tracing, monitoring and alerting, partnering with development and platform teams to embed observability into pipelines and release cycles.

You will build reusable frameworks, define SLIs/SLOs and ensure AI-enabled workflows are instrumented end-to-end.