Observability Engineer

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At Anaplan, we seek a self-motivated Observability Engineer to join our dedicated Observability Infrastructure team. Anaplan is a high-growth company that is leading the way in enterprise planning. We look for exceptional Engineers of all levels - curious, hard-working people who believe in simplicity, agility, and performance and can choose and use the best tools for the job. In the role of Observability Engineer, you will be working on the tools used to collect and analyze Observability telemetry (Logs, Metrics, and Traces). You will enable engineers across the business to see how their services are performing and interacting in a scalable, performant, and cost-effective manner.

This role requires you to be in our London office twice a week. 

Your Impact:

• Administering observability infrastructure.
• Deploying and configuring OTEL agents to collect telemetry and to visualise this data in Grafana.
• Pairing with your colleagues to build everything from rapid prototypes to highly testable and tested platform capabilities.
• Coaching and collaborating with other platform and product engineers to share best practices on observability techniques and deliver value.
• Develop custom code in a testable and sustainable way. The team is most fluent in Python, but we are always happy to use the right language to solve a problem.
• Working with Terraform to deploy Dashboards and Alerts to our Grafana instances in a managed and repeatable way.
• Working with our stakeholders to translate product goals into prioritized platform requirements.
• Working in a complex and evolving environment.
• Anaplan provides services using multiple cloud vendors and our data centers.
• We collect data from Kubernetes, VMs, and bare metal systems.
• We encourage and enable the adoption of observability tools to drive great decisions in the business.

Your Qualifications:

• Experience with TDD (Test Driven Development) and BDD (Behavioural Driven Development).
• Experience working with Kubernetes.
• Experience working with DevOps tools like Terraform, Jenkins, or Ansible.
• Working in an agile environment.
• We are looking for people with experience with at least some of these tools or similar products and enthusiasm for learning.
  • Open Telemetry, Prometheus, Jaeger.
  • Telegraf, InfluxDB, Grafana (TIG).
  • Elastic Search, LogStash, Kibana (ELK).
  • Splunk, New Relic, Elastic, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, Datadog, Honeycomb, LogicMonitor.

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