Optum ยท 1 month ago
Sr. Observability Engineer
La Crosse, WI
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$90K/yr - $161K/yr
2+ years expOptum is a global organization that delivers care aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The Observability Engineer will be responsible for maintaining the reliability, scalability, and availability of monitoring solutions, focusing on automation and performance metrics. This role involves designing and managing log aggregation solutions and robust monitoring systems across various platforms.
EducationHealth CareMedicalPharmaceutical
Responsibilities
Maintain and deploy monitoring and alerting
Design, configuration and maintenance of log aggregation solution at a large scale
Set up and manage ingestion pipelines and data transformations
Have the mindset of "automate any task"
Monitoring and Alerting: Build and maintain robust monitoring systems using tools like Elk, Dynatrace, Prometheus, OTEL and Grafana to detect potential issues early and trigger alerts for timely response
Maintain associated documentation as it applies to our audit and certification requirements
Participate in troubleshooting, capacity planning, and performance analysis activities
Research new monitoring requirements and in many cases write code for that
Medium to expert level in setting up AI rules for tools like DavisAI (Dynatrace) and/or Elastic GenAI
Solid expertise in setting up monitoring policies/rules/templates; and writing scripts to accomplish monitoring requirements
Qualification
Required
2+ years of experience working directly with monitoring tools as either an Admin, SME or as an Architect, preferably with Dynatrace and/or ELK
2+ years of experience with Dynatrace (managed, cloud as well as offline, with full scope of best practices and setup as it relates to Active gate, cloud, on-prem and custom with workflows), or with Elastic on-prem and cloud with best practices around the platform
1+ years of experience with designing data pipelines using filebeat, Logstash and/or fluentbit/fluentd
1+ years of AI expertise as it relates to Observability to reduce the amount of work, and make our products more reliable and resilient
1+ years of experience writing scripts in languages like Python and (Bash or powershell) to automate tasks
1+ years of experience working with Linux OS
Preferred
BS/MS in CS/engineering or equivalent, OR 5+ years of experience
1+ years of experience in Terraform and Ansible. Syntax, best practices, and managing complex configurations in multi commercial and Gov clouds to build and manage infra and applications
1+ years of scripting experience (JavaScript, Java, PowerShell, or others)
SNMP, TCP dump and tracing
Knowledge of AIOPS platform
Benefits
Comprehensive benefits package
Incentive and recognition programs
Equity stock purchase
401k contribution
Company
Optum
Optum is a healthcare company that provides pharmacy services, health care operations, and population health management. It is a sub-organization of UnitedHealth Group.
10001+ employees
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Chief Executive Officer, Optum Care Delivery
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Chief Financial Officer
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