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.

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 external 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:
- Robust 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.  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

📌 Lead Engineer Observability Integration (Chennai)
🏢 Hapag Lloyd
📍 Chennai