Lead Platform Engineer

Company Overview A leading financial technology organization is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to join their high-performing Monitoring Engineering team. This role focuses on enhancing system reliability and operational insight through advanced monitoring and observability capabilities. Job Responsibilities Architect, deploy, and operate OpenTelemetry-based telemetry pipelines. Develop and maintain instrumentation, telemetry, and alerting using tools like Grafana, OpsRamp, ElasticStack, BigPanda, AWS CloudWatch, and Azure Monitor. Drive observability standards and best practices across engineering teams. Integrate and manage OpenTelemetry for distributed tracing and telemetry data collection. Collaborate with application development teams to define observability requirements. Embed reliability considerations early in the SDLC. Define and maintain standardized alert payloads and optimize thresholds. Create and maintain dashboards for the Enterprise Monitoring Center. Develop and maintain technical documentation and observability standards. Build automation frameworks for monitoring, alerting, and incident response. Drive system optimization through capacity analysis and performance tuning. Define, implement, and operationalize SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets. Participate in and improve incident response processes. Qualifications Bachelor's degree in computer science, IT, or related field. 5+ years of experience in software, systems, or reliability engineering roles. Hands‑on experience with production observability, monitoring, and SLOs in distributed systems. Compensation Pay Rate: $70 – $71/hr, DOE #J-18808-Ljbffr Landing Point