SRE/ELK Stack Engineer

Role Overview: You will be responsible for modernizing and standardizing logs, metrics, and traces using OpenTelemetry to enhance visibility, reliability, and operational intelligence. Your focus will be on assessing existing observability setups, designing modern architectures, and implementing best practices for cloud-native applications. Key Responsibilities: - Assess the existing ELK-based observability setup and define a modern observability architecture - Design and implement standardized logging, metrics, and distributed tracing using OpenTelemetry - Define observability best practices for cloud-native and Azure-based applications - Ensure consistent telemetry collection across microservices, APIs, and infrastructure - Instrument applications using OpenTelemetry SDKs such as SpringBoot, .NET, Python, and Javascript - Support Kubernetes and container-based workloads - Configure and optimize log pipelines, trace exporters, and metric collectors - Integrate OpenTelemetry with ELK, OpenSearch, Azure Monitor, or other backends - Define SLIs, SLOs, and alerting strategies - Knowledge in integrating GitHub and Jira metrics as DORA metrics to observability - Improve observability performance, cost efficiency, and data retention strategies - Create dashboards, runbooks, and documentation - Design or integrate AI/ML-based anomaly detection for logs, metrics, and traces (Good to Have) - Work on AIOps capabilities for automated incident triage and insights (Good to Have) Qualifications: - Strong hands-on experience with ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) - Deep understanding of logs, metrics, traces, and distributed systems - Practical experience with OpenTelemetry (Collectors, SDKs, exporters, receivers) - Strong experience with Microsoft Azure to integrate with Observability platform - Experience with Kubernetes / AKS to integrate with Observability platform - Knowledge of Azure monitoring tools (Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights) - Experience with Kubernetes / AKS is a strong plus Additional Details: Experience Level: 5-8 Years Location: Chennai Role Overview: You will be responsible for modernizing and standardizing logs, metrics, and traces using OpenTelemetry to enhance visibility, reliability, and operational intelligence. Your focus will be on assessing existing observability setups, designing modern architectures, and implementing best practices for cloud-native applications. Key Responsibilities: - Assess the existing ELK-based observability setup and define a modern observability architecture - Design and implement standardized logging, metrics, and distributed tracing using OpenTelemetry - Define observability best practices for cloud-native and Azure-based applications - Ensure consistent telemetry collection across microservices, APIs, and infrastructure - Instrument applications using OpenTelemetry SDKs such as SpringBoot, .NET, Python, and Javascript - Support Kubernetes and container-based workloads - Configure and optimize log pipelines, trace exporters, and metric collectors - Integrate OpenTelemetry with ELK, OpenSearch, Azure Monitor, or other backends - Define SLIs, SLOs, and alerting strategies - Knowledge in integrating GitHub and Jira metrics as DORA metrics to observability - Improve observability performance, cost efficiency, and data retention strategies - Create dashboards, runbooks, and documentation - Design or integrate AI/ML-based anomaly detection for logs, metrics, and traces (Good to Have) - Work on AIOps capabilities for automated incident triage and insights (Good to Have) Qualifications: - Strong hands-on experience with ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) - Deep understanding of logs, metrics, traces, and distributed systems - Practical experience with OpenTelemetry (Collectors, SDKs, exporters, receivers) - Strong experience with Microsoft Azure to integrate with Observability platform - Experience with Kubernetes / AKS to integrate with Observability platform - Knowledge of Azure monitoring tools (Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights) - Experience with Kubernetes / AKS is a strong plus Additional Details: Experience Level: 5-8 Years Location: Chennai