Senior Telemetry & Observability Platform Engineer

Ports North; Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 137,760 - 165,312; Full time

Job summary

Korn Ferry in Baltimore, MD is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer (Observability & Telemetry) to join the high‑performing Monitoring Engineering team in a fast‑paced financial technology environment.

You will design and operate OpenTelemetry pipelines, instrumentation standards, dashboards, and alerting to deliver end‑to‑end visibility, reliable services, and reduced MTTR through SLO‑driven practices. Collaboration with application and platform teams is essential to raise enterprise reliability.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and implementing observability platforms across large, distributed environments.
• Strong knowledge of instrumentation, alerting, dashboards, and tracing.
• Proven ability to drive reliability through SLOs,SLIs, and incident reduction.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain monitoring and observability solutions across production systems.
• Develop instrumentation, telemetry, and alerting for enterprise monitoring centers using industry tools.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to document observability requirements and ensure reliable release processes.
• Apply SRE best practices to define SLIs/SLOs and health indicators for critical services.

Skills

Observability design

Telemetry pipelines

OpenTelemetry

SRE practices

Cross-team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/IT

Tools

Grafana

OpsRamp

ElasticStack

BigPanda

AWS CloudWatch

Azure Monitor

Job description

Korn Ferry in Baltimore, MD is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer (Observability & Telemetry) to join the high‑performing Monitoring Engineering team in a fast‑paced financial technology environment.

You will design and operate OpenTelemetry pipelines, instrumentation standards, dashboards, and alerting to deliver end‑to‑end visibility, reliable services, and reduced MTTR through SLO‑driven practices. Collaboration with application and platform teams is essential to raise enterprise reliability.