Observability Leader: Enterprise Telemetry & SRE

Truist; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401k plan

Paid vacation and sick days

Job summary

Truist seeks an Observability Lead-Sr. Infrastructure Engineer to define, implement, and scale enterprise observability.

You will lead metrics, logs, traces, and telemetry pipelines using OpenTelemetry, while integrating Open Source and commercial tools for production environments. You will work across engineering, SRE, and platform teams, guiding instrumentation, performance engineering, and event-driven patterns (Kafka).

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or related field.
• Minimum of 7 years of professional experience in infrastructure engineering.
• Advanced knowledge of enterprise infrastructure technologies including cloud, network, database, storage, platform, computing, and middleware.

Responsibilities

• Achieves operational targets with major impact on infrastructure engineering; contributes to goals for area of responsibility.
• Designs, builds, manages, and implements enterprise infrastructure platforms across cloud, network, database, storage, platform, computing, or middleware domains.
• Develops automation, monitoring, and optimization techniques for high availability and performance of infrastructure.
• Manages large infrastructure projects and programs aligned with strategy and regulatory requirements.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams to integrate new technologies and improve infrastructure standards.
• Troubleshoots and resolves complex technical issues affecting infrastructure performance and reliability.
• Ensures compliance with technology strategies, standards, and governance to mitigate risks.
• Reviews designs, configurations, and procedures to support consistency and knowledge sharing.
• Provides technical guidance and direction to infrastructure teams.
• Demonstrates influence with stakeholders to support business objectives and technical strategy.

Skills

OpenTelemetry

Kafka

Event streaming

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Python

Go

Java

JavaScript

TypeScript

.NET/C#

PowerShell

Bash

Git

CI/CD pipelines

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Jaeger

Elastic

Splunk

Dynatrace

Datadog

Job description

Truist seeks an Observability Lead-Sr. Infrastructure Engineer to define, implement, and scale enterprise observability.

You will lead metrics, logs, traces, and telemetry pipelines using OpenTelemetry, while integrating Open Source and commercial tools for production environments. You will work across engineering, SRE, and platform teams, guiding instrumentation, performance engineering, and event-driven patterns (Kafka).