Sr Engineer Observability

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We are Optimum, a leader in the fast-paced world of connectivity, and we're on the hunt for enthusiastic professionals to join our team! We understand that connectivity isn't just a luxury anymore – it's a necessity that empowers lives, fuels businesses, and drives innovation. A career at Optimum means you'll be enabling progress and enhancing lives by providing reliable, high-speed connectivity solutions that keep the world connected.

We owe our success to our amazing product, commitment to our people and the connections we make in every community.

If you are resourceful, collaborative, team-oriented and passionate about delivering consistent excellence, Optimum is the Company for you!

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The Observability Engineer designs and maintains the platforms that provide deep visibility into systems, networks, and applications. This role enables proactive detection, faster incident response, and data-driven operational excellence through metrics, logs, traces, and events.

• Design and operate observability platforms (metrics, logs, traces, events)
• Build instrumentation standards and onboarding patterns
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and dashboards for critical systems
• Partner with engineering and operations teams on observability best practices
• Optimize signal quality and reduce alert noise
• Support incident response, post-incident analysis, and reporting
• Enable observability data for AI Ops and automation use cases
• Maintain platform reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in observability, SRE, or platform engineering
• Strong experience with monitoring and observability tools
• Experience instrumenting applications and infrastructure
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and failure modes
• Ability to translate operational needs into actionable signals
• Experience working within an Agile or SAFE Agile work model

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Open Telemetry
• Exposure to large-scale network or infrastructure environments
• Experience supporting NOC, SRE, or incident response teams
• Familiarity with observability-driven automation or AIOps

At Optimum, we're fueled by our four core pillars:
Taking Ownership, Upholding Transparency, Creating Community, and Demonstrating Expertise. Our commitment to empowering employees to take responsibility and embrace proactive problem-solving underpins Taking Ownership. Upholding Transparency is at the core of our culture, with open and honest communication fostering trust among our dedicated team and loyal customers. Creating Community is more than a goal; it's our daily commitment to fostering an environment of collaboration, innovation, and positivity.

Demonstrating expertise is a promise we uphold through continuous learning and engagement with our customers to consistently deliver top-quality products and services. These pillars not only shape our culture but define Optimum as a place of excellence, trustworthiness, and thriving community, and we invite you to be a part of our journey.

If you have the drive to succeed and are ready to embark on a thrilling career, seize this opportunity today, and join our winning team, so together, we'll shape the future of connectivity.

All job descriptions and required skills, qualifications and responsibilities for a particular position are subject to modification by the Company from time to time, in the Company's discretion based on business necessity.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, national origin, religion, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. The Company provides reasonable accommodations upon request in accordance with applicable requirements.

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