Lead Observability Engineer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

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EverOps

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51 - 200 employees

🤝 B2B

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

💰 Pre Seed Round on 2022-02

B2B • Enterprise • SaaS

EverOps is a company that specializes in providing DevOps, IT operations (ITOps), and security operations (SecOps) services to help businesses tackle their biggest technology challenges. Founded in 2012, EverOps has a track record of empowering companies to improve their engineering efficiency, optimize cloud costs, and enhance their security posture. With a focus on technical excellence and strategic leadership, EverOps offers solutions for cloud cost optimization, engineering efficiency, and IT infrastructure modernization. Their approach integrates seamlessly with client teams to deliver rapid value and superior outcomes.

📋 Description

• Lead an embedded TechPod as Pod Leader and serve as the primary contact for customer engineering leadership • Lead a two-month Observability Maturity Assessment • Assess the observability estate across vendors, agents, collectors, query surfaces, data volumes, and operating model • Validate metric cardinality, active series, scrape target health, log volumes, trace sampling, retention, and telemetry fidelity • Build total cost of ownership comparisons for current and target states • Design an AWS-native observability target architecture using OpenTelemetry and AWS services • Partner with Security, Legal, and Engineering on telemetry classification and policy-driven retention • Map current capabilities to AWS-native equivalents and identify gaps • Define and run performance-parity tests for query performance, alert latency, and data fidelity • Plan and lead migration execution, including pipeline cutover, porting log transforms to OpenTelemetry, rebuilding dashboards, and deduplicating/rebuilding alerts • Define OpenTelemetry conventions, collector topology, and sampling strategy • Rebuild service ownership tagging for telemetry cost attribution • Analyze platform spend, licensing, and commit structures and inform vendor renewal strategy • Lead working cadence with customer observability leadership • Produce assessment reports, target architecture, cost model, migration plan, executive summary, and present findings to engineering leadership

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years in SRE, DevOps, Observability, or Platform Engineering • 4+ years owning production observability platforms • Prior experience in a technical lead, staff, or principal-level role • Deep experience running metrics, logging, and tracing platforms at large scale • Advanced production experience with Prometheus and Thanos, Cortex, or Mimir • Experience with PromQL, recording rules, remote write, and cardinality management • Hands-on experience with Datadog or a comparable commercial platform • Production experience with CloudWatch, CloudWatch Logs, Container Insights, X-Ray or Application Signals, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, and Amazon Managed Grafana • Production experience with OpenTelemetry Collector or ADOT, including pipeline design, processors, tail and head sampling, and multi-backend export • Experience designing and operating log pipelines with Vector, Fluent Bit, Logstash, or Firehose • Strong production experience with EKS or Kubernetes • Advanced proficiency with Terraform • Experience designing SLO-based alerting and integrating with incident management tooling such as PagerDuty • Ability to build defensible TCO models from usage data and pricing • Strong scripting ability using Python, Go, or Bash • Demonstrated ability to assess unfamiliar environments and produce recommendations quickly • Ability to explain technical, cost, and compliance tradeoffs to technical and executive stakeholders • Experience with vendor migrations, dashboards and alerts as code, Grafana ecosystem tools, continuous profiling, data governance, analytics platforms, consumer-scale platforms, or consulting is a plus • Certifications such as Prometheus Certified Associate, OpenTelemetry Certified Associate, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, or CKA are extra awesome • EverOps hires remotely in the United States • Must be legally authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% Remote Workplace • Unlimited Paid Time Off • Equity: Become a true owner of the company • 401K with company contribution • Sponsored healthcare • Access to training and certification programs