Lead Software Engineer

Virtusa; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Virtusa in Atlanta, GA, seeks an experienced leader to head and grow an observability engineering team. You will define strategy, standards, and roadmaps for monitoring, logging, alerting, tracing, and dashboards to drive reliability of critical services.

The role requires a decade of infrastructure/SRE experience, strong cloud (Azure, GCP), AI-enabled operations via Copilot, and proven people leadership across distributed teams.

Qualifications

• Requires a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• At least 10 years of relevant infrastructure, operations, SRE, platform engineering, or observability experience.
• At least 3 years managing technical teams.
• Strong observability platform expertise.
• Azure and GCP experience.
• Experience applying Copilot and generative AI to operational workflows.
• Globally distributed team leadership and automation or DevOps experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop an observability engineering team and set strategy, standards, and roadmap for monitoring, logging, alerting, tracing, and dashboards.
• Improve reliability and incident readiness and establish operational metrics.
• Advance AI-enabled monitoring, troubleshooting, and automated remediation across business-critical services.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to implement scalable observability solutions.

Skills

Observability

People Management

Monitoring

Logging

Alerting

Distributed Tracing

Dashboarding

Site Reliability Engineering

Incident Response

Cloud Computing

Automation

DevOps

Generative AI

Microsoft Copilot

Stakeholder Management

Reliability Engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Azure

GCP

Copilot

Job description

Lead and develop an observability engineering team while setting the strategy, standards, and roadmap for monitoring, logging, alerting, tracing, and dashboards. Improve reliability and incident readiness, establish operational metrics, and advance AI-enabled monitoring, troubleshooting, and automated remediation across business-critical services.

Requirements:

Requires a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, at least 10 years of relevant infrastructure, operations, SRE, platform engineering, or observability experience, and at least 3 years managing technical teams. Candidates should have strong observability platform expertise, Azure and GCP experience, and experience applying Copilot and generative AI to operational workflows; globally distributed team leadership and automation or DevOps experience are preferred.

Key Skills:

Observability, People Management, Monitoring, Logging, Alerting, Distributed Tracing, Dashboarding, Site Reliability Engineering, Incident Response, Cloud Computing, Automation, DevOps, Generative AI, Microsoft Copilot, Stakeholder Management, Reliability Engineering