DevOps Engineer IV- 4P/702

Location: Atlanta, Ga                                                                                                                                                 Contract : 3Years
Experience: Senior Level

Client- Southern Company Services.

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer IV / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with strong hands-on experience in observability, telemetry, monitoring, and service reliability. The ideal candidate will have deep knowledge of Grafana, OpenTelemetry (OTEL), PromQL, and application/system instrumentation.

This role will partner with engineering, operations, and application teams to improve service reliability, telemetry quality, alerting maturity, and operational visibility across complex environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and support monitoring and observability solutions.
• Build dashboards, alerts, and telemetry solutions using Grafana and related tools.
• Implement OpenTelemetry standards for application and system instrumentation.
• Write and optimize PromQL queries for monitoring and reliability insights.
• Improve alerting quality, reduce noise, and create actionable alerts.
• Troubleshoot application and infrastructure issues using logs, metrics, and traces.
• Support incident response, root cause analysis, and reliability improvements.
• Collaborate with engineering, operations, and application teams.

Required Qualifications

• Strong experience as a DevOps Engineer, SRE, Observability Engineer, or similar role.
• Hands-on experience with Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and PromQL.
• Experience with application and system instrumentation.
• Strong understanding of logs, metrics, traces, alerting, and service reliability.
• Ability to design monitoring solutions across complex environments.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, communication, and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Kubernetes, containers, cloud platforms, or microservices.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, automation, infrastructure-as-code, incident response, SLIs, SLOs, and reliability metrics.

Key Skills

DevOps, SRE, Observability, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, OTEL, PromQL, Prometheus, Monitoring, Alerting, Logs, Metrics, Traces, Instrumentation, Incident Response, Root Cause Analysis.