DevOps Engineer IV – Site Reliability Engineer / Observability
Location: Atlanta, Ga Contract : 3YearsExperience: 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.