Senior Observability Engineer

Ensono; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Life insurance

Pension plan

Meal allowance

Employee assistance

Wellness program

Job summary

Ensono is seeking a Senior Observability Engineer to drive enterprise observability across multi-cloud environments (AWS/Azure/GCP). This role emphasizes FOAK implementations, SRE practices, and advanced telemetry pipelines.

You will lead architecture, define SLIs/SLOs, mentor teams, and partner with ITSM integrations. Remote work options available; Brazil-based and international collaboration.

Qualifications

• Lead Architect or SRE with 5–7 years in a massive enterprise environment.
• Experience migrating from legacy monitoring to proactive observability platforms.
• Hands-on in building scalable telemetry pipelines and time-series databases.
• Experience leading FOAK rollouts and vendor transitions.
• Preferred Kubernetes certifications or cloud architect certs.

Responsibilities

• Define and govern SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Lead major incident war rooms and conduct RCA.
• Drive observability automation with IaC and GitOps practices.
• Design observability for multi-cloud / Kubernetes environments.
• Mentor teams and manage knowledge-transfer programs.

Skills

Observability

SRE

Platform Engineering

Automation

Kubernetes

Docker

OpenTelemetry

Terraform

Ansible

Python

Tools

IBM Instana

Grafana

Prometheus

Telegraf

InfluxDB

SolarWinds

Netcool

Elastic

Splunk

Job description

Senior Observability EngineerRemote - BrazilJR

At Ensono, our Purpose is to be a relentless ally, disrupting the status quo and unleashing our clients to Do Great Things ! We enable our clients to achieve key business outcomes that reshape how our world runs. As an expert technology adviser and managed service provider with cross-platform certifications, Ensono empowers our clients to keep up with continuous change and embrace innovation.

We can Do Great Things because we have great Associates. The Ensono Core Values unify our diverse talents and are woven into how we do business. These five traits are the key to achieving our purpose.

Honesty Reliability Curiosity Collaboration Passion

About the role and what you'll be doing:

Core Responsibilities

1. Enterprise Architecture & Strategy

• Architect and govern a unified observability framework covering metrics, logs, traces, and events using IBM Instana, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Telegraf, and InfluxDB .
• Lead First-of-a-Kind (FOAK) implementations-evaluating new observability tech and converting them into secure, repeatable, production-ready patterns.
• Define enterprise standards for telemetry pipelines, data retention, high-cardinality controls, and observability cost management.

2. SRE & Service Reliability

• Define and govern Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Objectives (SLOs), and error budgets.
• Serve as the senior technical escalation point, leading major P1/P2 incident war rooms and conducting evidence-based Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
• Drastically reduce MTTD/MTTR and alert noise through event correlation, dynamic thresholds, and dependency mapping.

3. Platform Engineering & Automation

• Drive Observability-as-Code and infrastructure automation using Ansible, Terraform, Python, and GitOps .
• Automate the deployment, configuration, and self-healing workflows for monitoring agents and telemetry collectors.
• Integrate observability platforms seamlessly with ITSM (ServiceNow), Netcool, and CI/CD pipelines.

4. Cloud-Native & Kubernetes Observability

• Design deep observability for Docker, Kubernetes, microservices, and multi-cloud environments (Azure/AWS/GCP).
• Correlate application APM telemetry with Kubernetes control planes, pods, nodes, and infrastructure dependencies.
• Ensure secure-by-design telemetry pipelines (RBAC, TLS, secrets management, and image scanning).

5. Technical Leadership & Transition Management

• Lead complex Knowledge Transfer (KT) programs, vendor transitions, and operational readiness handovers for global 24×7 teams.
• Mentor cross-functional engineering teams and influence enterprise technology roadmaps.

Required Technical Stack

• Observability & APM: IBM Instana, Grafana (Enterprise & Alloy), Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Telegraf, InfluxDB.
• Legacy/Traditional Monitoring: SolarWinds, Netcool, Elastic/Splunk.
• Cloud & Containerization: Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Infrastructure: Linux (RHEL), Windows Server, VMware, Citrix VDI, load balancers, and edge proxies.
• Automation & DevOps: Ansible, Terraform, Python, Bash, Webhooks, CI/CD (GitHub Actions/GitLab/Jenkins).
• ITSM/Operations: ServiceNow, ITIL 4, advanced Major Incident Management.

Required Qualifications

• 12+ years of total IT experience , with a minimum of 5 to 7 years functioning as a Lead Architect, SRE, or Principal Observability Engineer in a massive enterprise environment.
• Proven track record of migrating organizations from legacy monitoring to proactive, automated observability platforms.
• Hands‑on expertise in building scalable, secure telemetry pipelines and time‑series databases.
• Extensive experience leading FOAK rollouts and complex vendor/operations transition (KT) programs.
• Preferred Certifications: CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator), Cloud Architect (AWS/Azure), or specific APM/Observability vendor certifications.

Why Ensono?

Ensono is a place to make better happen - for our clients and for your career. You can do great things through innovation or collaboration, by learning or volunteering, or to promote diversity and inclusion. You can do great things for your own health or for a healthier planet. Whatever it means to you to do great things we want Ensono to be the place you can do it.

We are a client-facing business, but we do encourage clients to allow us to work remotely most of the time so if you are not required to be on a client site, you can choose to work from home.

Some of our benefits include:

• CLT hiring - 40 hours weekly workload
• Work remotely
• Health Insurance - SulAmérica Prestige (available for legal dependents)
• Dental Insurance - SulAmérica (available for legal dependents)
• Life Insurance - Prudential (24x salary)
• Private Pension - Metlife (up to 6% of company match)
• Meal Voucher and Internet allowance - Flash (R$1.000,00 per month)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Wellness program

In addition to benefit package and base salary, other compensation program, depending on eligibility, include and individual performance and an equity grant under our Associate Equity Appreciation Program.

Ensono is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. We are committed to providing equal employment to our Associates and building a diverse and inclusive workforce. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.

JR