Site Reliability Engineer / Observability Engineer
Job Summary
Job Description
Rackspace is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer/Observability Engineer to join their Professional Services Center of Excellence. This role focuses on application performance monitoring suites using tools like Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, or Dynatrace. Responsibilities include implementing observability solutions, building scalable systems, developing monitoring tools and dashboards, performing anomaly detection and performance tuning, collaborating with development teams, and resolving service issues. The ideal candidate will have senior-level experience in SRE, DevOps, AWS infrastructure, automation, and observability tools. They will possess strong coding skills (Python, etc.), experience with Terraform/CloudFormation, configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet), and agile development methodologies. A deep understanding of AWS services and network/system management is crucial.
Must have:
- Senior-level SRE/DevOps experience
- AWS infrastructure expertise
- Observability tool experience (Datadog, etc.)
- Strong coding skills (Python preferred)
- Experience with automation tools
- Agile development experience
Good to have:
- Experience with Splunk, SignalFx
- Terraform or CloudFormation
- Ansible, Chef, or Puppet
- Understanding of AWS pricing models
15 skills required
Job Details
Site Reliability Engineer / Observability Engineer
Public Cloud - Offerings and Delivery – Workforce Mgmt & Delivery Ops /
Full - Time /
Remote
Rackspace is building up its Professional Services Center of Excellence on Application Performance Monitoring Suites.
If you enjoy solving complex business problems and can contribute to building next generation of modern applications for our customers helping them understand the connections between application performance, user experience and business outcomes creating amazing customer experiences, with modern interpretations of SRE, Observability using Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics or Dynatrace, working with their suite of products and integrations, then join us!
Rackspace enables businesses to accelerate digital transformation through our innovative data, integration solutions tools that help you fix problems quickly, maintain complex systems and improve code. We believe Datadog, AppDynamics or New Relicwill be a large contributor to what we do, and we want talented, creative, and thoughtful individuals to join our team to shape Observability Engineering for our customers.
You Will:
Work with customers and implement Observability solutions
Build and maintain scalable systems and robust automation that supports engineering goals.
Develop and maintain monitoring tools, alerts, and dashboards to provide visibility into system health and performance
Proactively gather and analyze both metric and log data from systems and applications to perform anomaly detection, performance tuning, capacity planning and fault isolation.
Collaborate with development teams to implement and deploy new features and enhancements, ensuring they meet reliability, security and performance standards
Collaborate with team members to document and share solutions
Maintain a deep understanding of the customer’s business as well as their technical environment
Identifying performance bottlenecks, identifying anomalous system behavior, and resolving root cause of service issues
You Have:
Bachelor’s degree in engineering/computer science or equivalent
Senior-level experience with Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Code level application support and troubleshooting, AWS Infrastructure design, implementation and optimization, Automation for deployment, scaling and reliability.
Experience with observability solutions tools like Splunk, Datadog, SignalFx, etc.
Experience deploying, maintaining and supporting software applications/services in the AWS ecosystem
Proactive approach to identifying problems and solutions
Experience writing code with one or more interpreted languages such as Python, PHP, Perl, Ruby,Linux Shell
Experience with Terraform or Cloud Formation scripting
Experience with configuration management tools like Ansible, Chef or Puppet
Experience with standard software development best practices and tools such as code repositories (Git preferred)
Experience executing in an agile software development environment
Good understanding of pricing/cost models across AWS services, especially compute, storage, and database offerings
A clear understanding of network & system Management solutions
Excellent organizational and project management skills
Excellent communication, critical thinking & analytical skills
About Rackspace Technology
We are the multicloud solutions experts. We combine our expertise with the world’s leading technologies — across applications, data and security — to deliver end-to-end solutions. We have a proven record of advising customers based on their business challenges, designing solutions that scale, building and managing those solutions, and optimizing returns into the future. Named a best place to work, year after year according to Fortune, Forbes and Glassdoor, we attract and develop world-class talent. Join us on our mission to embrace technology, empower customers and deliver the future.
More on Rackspace Technology
Though we’re all different, Rackers thrive through our connection to a central goal: to be a valued member of a winning team on an inspiring mission. We bring our whole selves to work every day. And we embrace the notion that unique perspectives fuel innovation and enable us to best serve our customers and communities around the globe. We welcome you to apply today and want you to know that we are committed to offering equal employment opportunity without regard to age, color, disability, gender reassignment or identity or expression, genetic information, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, military or veteran status, nationality, ethnic or national origin, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or any legally protected characteristic. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
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