Description

The Observability Integration Engineer is responsible for supporting product teams with Open Telemetry applications instrumentation and supporting the Application Observability Platform team in 24/7/365 Open Telemetry infrastructure maintenance.

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Qualifications

- Bachelor’s or Master's degree in a relevant field (e.g. Information Technology, Computer Science, Operations Management, or related), or equivalent experience
- English language – expert proficiency (additional languages are beneficial)

Responsibilities

Primary Responsibilities

- Support development teams with OpenTelemetry instrumentation of application code, both zero-code and manual approaches.

- Assist in configuring observability analytical backends, such as Datadog, Dynatrace, or Grafana.

- Guide teams in the instrumentation of infrastructure for observability.

- Support the integration of observability backends (DataDog, Dynatrace, Grafana, etc.) with systems such as Jira, ServiceNow, PagerDuty, and similar platforms

- Assist teams in defining Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and configuring Service Level Objectives (SLOs).

- Collaborate with the Application Observability Platform team to maintain the 24/7/365 availability and reliability of the OpenTelemetry infrastructure

Required Skills & Experience:

- Strong proficiency in OpenTelemetry,



including hands-on experience with OTLP protocol, OpenTelemetry Semantic Conventions, OpenTelemetry Collector, and OpenTelemetry Java Agent.

- Practical ability to instrument Java code using the OpenTelemetry API and OpenTelemetry Java SDK.

- OpenTelemetry Java SDK. ï‚· Basic understanding of AWS services and their role in modern application deployment.

- At least 3 year of development experience in Java (Python experience is also acceptable).

- Minimum 5-10 year of hands-on experience working with observability analytical backends such as DataDog, Dynatrace, or Grafana.

- At least 5 year of experience working with container technologies (e.g., Docker).

- Strong communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with development teams and other stakeholders.

- Basic understanding of software architecture principles, including the differences between monolithic and microservices architectures.

- Cooperative team player with strong engineering skills

- Meticulous and detail-oriented with excellent communication skills

- Ability to negotiate, work under pressure, and manage crisis situations

- Culturally sensitive with experience working in diverse environments

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to prioritize and organize work

- Effective communicator who can articulate complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders

📌 Lead Engineer Observability Integration (India)
🏢 Hapag-Lloyd
📍 India