Senior Principal Observability Engineer-IT
Dell Technologies19 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead deployment, lifecycle management, upgrades, configuration, and optimization of enterprise observability platforms.
- Design and implement OpenTelemetry collection, instrumentation, and telemetry pipelines for metrics, logs, traces, and profiles.
- Own platform performance and reliability, including database tuning, observability data modeling, storage optimization, and incident troubleshooting.
- Automate operational processes using infrastructure-as-code and GitOps practices, and implement platform monitoring and alerting.
- Collaborate with architects, platform engineering teams, and business stakeholders to build scalable observability solutions.
- Mentor engineers and promote scalability, security, and observability best practices.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or related infrastructure-focused roles.
- Hands-on experience administering container orchestration platforms and managing production-scale infrastructure.
- Deep expertise in OpenTelemetry, including instrumentation, collectors, telemetry pipelines, and observability practices.
- Experience with observability platforms, telemetry data modeling, incident response, and monitoring strategies for high-volume environments.
- Strong automation and scripting skills using Python, Bash, or infrastructure-as-code technologies.
- Experience optimizing relational and analytical databases.
- Preferred experience operating Splunk, Dynatrace, MIMIR, LangSmith, or similar observability platforms.
- Preferred knowledge of time-series databases, query optimization, APM, distributed tracing, LLMOps, LLM applications, prompt evaluation, dataset management, prompt management, caching systems, message queues, and streaming components.
About Dell Technologies
Dell Technologies builds PCs, monitors, and peripherals for consumers and enterprises, and provides servers, storage, networking, and edge solutions for data centers. It sells hardware, software, and support services through direct, channel, and online models to organizations of all sizes and the public sector. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in Round Rock, Texas, it includes the former EMC storage business and operates globally across client computing and infrastructure markets.