Lead application observability discovery and implementation for a visual effects studio. Document application teams’ monitoring, logging, and APM practices; present findings and timelines; align application monitoring with existing SRE incident-response processes; recommend platforms and estimate costs; and support proof-of-concept or implementation work.
Senior SRE – Application Performance Monitoring (Contract)About the opportunityGPL Technologies is looking for a senior Site Reliability Engineer for a 3–6 month remote contract with a large, well-known visual effects studio, with a possible extension. You'll lead the next phase of the studio's observability program: extending a proven incident-response process from infrastructure to production applications and services.
The infrastructure phase is complete. Your job is to learn how application teams monitor their services today, then recommend how to streamline monitoring and fold application incidents into the existing response workflow.What you'll do
The infrastructure phase is complete. Your job is to learn how application teams monitor their services today, then recommend how to streamline monitoring and fold application incidents into the existing response workflow.What you'll do
- Meet with each application team to document which monitoring, logging and APM tools they use and how they use them.
- Present discovery findings and timeline updates to stakeholders in weekly check-ins.
- Work alongside the studio's infrastructure SRE to plan how application monitoring fits the current incident-response process and culture.
- Recommend solutions for a proof-of-concept phase, whether one platform or several, with estimated platform and service costs.
- Support the proof-of-concept or implementation phase that follows, as scope allows.
- Senior-level experience in Site Reliability Engineering and/or DevOps, with a heavy focus on application performance monitoring, centralized logging and tracing.
- Hands-on work with SaaS or on-prem platforms such as Datadog, Dynatrace, Elastic/ELK, Logz.io, Grafana or Prometheus.
- Experience connecting application alerts to an incident-response process.
- Clear, responsive communication with technical and non-technical teams.
- Friendly but assertive follow-through: you can get information and move actions forward across many teams in a large organization.
- Zabbix and/or PagerDuty experience
- Visual effects, animation or media production background
- Experience running discovery or assessment engagements as a consultant
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