Base Salary
$98k - $116k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the definition, documentation, implementation, and continuous improvement of observability across critical customer journeys.
- Design and govern SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, reliability metrics, dashboards, alerts, synthetic monitoring, telemetry standards, and observability architectures.
- Partner with product owners, application engineering, SRE, operations, and business stakeholders to define reliability requirements and production-readiness standards.
- Develop and maintain service health dashboards covering availability, latency, customer impact, dependency performance, and SLO compliance.
- Analyze telemetry, incidents, problem records, alert history, and performance trends to identify observability gaps and improve detection accuracy.
- Provide senior-level technical guidance, coaching, and standards interpretation on tracing, logging, metrics, synthetic monitoring, APM, RUM, and alert governance.
- Maintain an authoritative inventory of observability assets, ownership assignments, review cadences, and compliance evidence.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
- Five to seven years of relevant experience in business and risk analysis, IT service management, production support, product or project management, or application development.
- Expertise in observability engineering, site reliability engineering, or reliability engineering.
- Strong knowledge of SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and customer journey monitoring.
- Hands-on experience with APM, RUM, synthetic monitoring, logging, tracing, and telemetry frameworks.
- Proficiency with one or more of Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, New Relic, Elastic, or OpenTelemetry.
- Experience building and tuning operational dashboards and actionable alerts.
- Understanding of distributed systems, microservices, cloud platforms, and Kubernetes.
- Ability to use incident analysis, root-cause analysis, and performance data to drive reliability improvements.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, and technical leadership skills.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision healthcare coverage.
- Basic and optional term life insurance.
- Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
- Pregnancy disability and parental leave.
- 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan.
- Paid vacation of two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure.
- Up to 11 paid holidays.
- Adoption assistance.
- Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour per 30 hours worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law.
- The role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three or more days per week.
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About U.S. Bank
At U.S. Bank, we help millions of clients achieve their goals with a balance of best-in-class technology and human expertise tailored to individual needs. As the fifth-largest commercial bank in the United States, we’ve built a reputation for strength and stability across a diversified mix of businesses, including commercial and institutional banking, business banking, payments, wealth management and consumer banking. We’ve been named one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute and the most admired superregional bank by Fortune. In addition to thousands of branches serving consumers, U.S. Bank offers a complete suite of products, services and strategic partnerships for business. Within our Wealth, Corporate, Commercial and Institutional Banking division, we serve more than half a million clients across the country and around the world, ranging from wealthy individuals and families to the largest corporations, including 90% of Fortune 1000 companies. We’re also consistently recognized as a great place to work. We’re shaping our company culture with intention, focused on creating a workplace where it’s safe to speak up, share ideas and try new things. We’re proud to be recognized as a “Best for Vets” employer by the Military Times and included on Fair360’s (formerly DiversityInc.) list of Top 50 Companies for Diversity. U.S. Bank, NA. Member FDIC. Equal Housing Lender.