Senior System Engineer

Role overview

Senior System Engineer at Infinite Computer Solutions

As a Senior DevOps Engineer – Observability Platform , you will be responsible for building and maintaining scalable, reliable infrastructure and deployment pipelines with a strong emphasis on observability — metrics, logs, and traces — across systems running on Kubernetes and Azure.

Responsibilities

• You will work closely with development teams to improve development velocity while ensuring system reliability, security, and performance.

Required qualifications

• 3+ years of academic or work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.
• Infrastructure Management: Design, implement, and maintain cloud-based infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code principles
• Automation: Develop automation scripts and tools to streamline operations and eliminate manual processes
• Containerization: Manage containerization strategies and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes
• Observability Platform: Design, build, and operate a standardized, self-service metrics, logs, and tracing platform (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, OpenTelemetry) serving both internal teams and external, customer-facing services running on Kubernetes and Azure
• Instrumentation & Telemetry: Partner with engineering teams to instrument applications and infrastructure, standardizing telemetry collection with OpenTelemetry
• SLOs & Alerting: Define and maintain SLIs/SLOs and error budgets, build actionable dashboards, and tune alerting to maximize signal and reduce noise
• Performance Optimization: Use observability data to analyze and optimize system performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency
• Documentation: Create and maintain thorough documentation for infrastructure, deployment processes, and operational procedures
• Incident Response & Escalation: Provide second-tier engineering escalation during business hours and own the telemetry, SLO, and alerting tooling that powers incident detection and reduces MTTD/MTTR; front-line 24/7 on-call is owned by the dedicated SRE team, not observability engineers.
• Lead post-mortem analysis for observability-platform incidents
• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Observability, or similar roles, including hands-on production experience operating Kubernetes based stack.
• Advantage - Strong background in tool development with security focus

Required skills

• Cloud Platforms: Extensive hands-on experience with Azure, including its observability services
• Infrastructure as Code: Proficiency with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or similar IaC tools
• Containerization: Advanced knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes ecosystem
• Observability Stack: Hands-on experience with Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Tempo or Jaeger, OpenTelemetry, and Alertmanager; experience scaling metrics storage with Thanos, Mimir, or Cortex
• Programming/Scripting: Strong coding skills in Python, Bash, or Go
• Soft Skills
• Problem-Solving: Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Collaboration: Ability to work effectively in a team environment and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Leadership: Proven leadership skills and the ability to mentor junior engineers.

Employment details

• Location: Bangalore - Campus

Additional role details

• Senior DevOps Engineer
• General Summary
• This role is critical in providing a standardized, observability platform that gives both internal engineering teams and external, customer-facing services deep, reliable visibility into system health, performance, and reliability