Senior Cloud Observability Engineer

Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield; Des Moines (IA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Wellmark is seeking a senior Enterprise Cloud Engineer IV (Observability) to design and advance enterprise observability across cloud, infra, apps, and AI platforms. You will partner with architecture, security, and platform teams to establish standards, reduce risk, and drive reliability.

You will lead monitoring strategy, implement scalable telemetry, and promote best practices in reliability engineering. Strong leadership and cloud-native experience are required.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in cloud engineering, SRE, DevOps, or observability roles.
• Experience building and operating enterprise-scale observability platforms.
• Proven impact on reliability, availability, and efficiency.
• Experience with major observability tools and cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve enterprise monitoring, logging, tracing, and telemetry.
• Lead observability strategy and scalable monitoring implementations.
• Collaborate with architecture, security, and platform teams.
• Mentor engineers and drive communities of practice.
• Advise on AI/ML observability and cost-conscious cloud solutions.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Site Reliability Engineering

DevOps

Observability engineering

Kubernetes

Containers

CI/CD

Mentoring

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree or direct and applicable work experience

Tools

Dynatrace

Splunk

Datadog

Grafana

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

New Relic

AppDynamics

Elastic

Honeycomb

Job description

Wellmark is seeking a senior Enterprise Cloud Engineer IV (Observability) to design and advance enterprise observability across cloud, infra, apps, and AI platforms. You will partner with architecture, security, and platform teams to establish standards, reduce risk, and drive reliability.

You will lead monitoring strategy, implement scalable telemetry, and promote best practices in reliability engineering. Strong leadership and cloud-native experience are required.