Senior Site Reliability Engineer - OpenTelemetry
EPAM Systems
In this role you will drive the design and expansion of a modern observability platform to boost monitoring, resilience, and operational stability for critical trading systems. You will work within the Production Engineering – Observability team to define standards, deliver enterprise-scale observability solutions, and promote best practices for operational excellence. The role involves hands-on instrumentation, data analytics, and dashboards to enable faster incident detection and reduced outages. This is a chance to shape observability at scale in a hybrid, finance-focused environment with a strong emphasis on automation and cross-team collaboration.
Responsibilities- Gather requirements and analyze current monitoring and observability setups
- Define observability standards, telemetry strategies, and alerting frameworks
- Implement OpenTelemetry instrumentation and OpenSearch-based solutions across apps and infrastructure
- Design dashboards, analytics, and reporting to improve transparency and efficiency
- Develop automation tools and processes to reduce manual overhead
- Integrate observability frameworks with enterprise monitoring platforms like Geneos
- Provide documentation and handover for long-term sustainability
- Apply SRE principles to enhance stability, scalability and reduce incidents
- Senior SRE or Observability Engineer with enterprise-scale implementation experience
- Strong OpenTelemetry expertise including instrumentation and telemetry pipelines
- Deep knowledge of OpenSearch for architecture, indexing, optimization, and analytics
- Experience building dashboards and alerts with Grafana
- Familiarity with enterprise monitoring tools such as Geneos
- Practical understanding of SRE practices and automation
- Background in high-availability or mission-critical environments; financial services experience is desirable
- Knowledge of anomaly detection, alert correlation, and incident response automation
- Exposure to observability in cloud-native or hybrid setups
- collaboration
- problem-solving
- attention to detail
- OpenTelemetry instrumentation
- OpenTelemetry telemetry pipelines
- OpenSearch data indexing and analytics
Reference: WJ-747_30859538