Observability Engineer

Observability Engineer – Contract

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, operating 200+ data centers across the globe and providing interconnections to all the key clouds and networks. Businesses need one place to simplify and bring together fragmented, complex infrastructure that spans private and public cloud environments. Our global platform allows customers to place infrastructure wherever they need it and connect it to everything they need to succeed.

We are a fast-growing global company with 70+ consecutive quarters of growth. Through our innovative portfolio of high-performance products and services, we have created the largest, most active global ecosystem of nearly 10,000 companies, including 1,800+ networks and 2,900+ cloud and IT service providers in over 26 countries spanning five continents.

A career at Equinix means you will collaborate on work that impacts the world and be surrounded by endless opportunities to learn new skills and grow in varied directions. We embrace diversity in thought and contribution and are committed to providing an equitable work environment. that is foundational to our core values as a company and is vital to our success.

Role:

We are looking for a talented and enthusiastic Observability engineer to join our passionate development team. You will be very familiar with Rest API concepts and how to use Go or Java to build, develop and deliver Highly Available Real-time Distributed Data API systems.

You will work well in a team but can work and problem solve independently.

Responsibilities:

Support development of API’s for:

• Log Collection and Analysis
• Operational Metrics (SNMP/gNMI/RESTful based Telemetry)
• Distributed Tracing
• Code and Artifact Repositories
• Secrets Management
• Configuration Repository and Management
• Event, Message and other such PUBSUB systems
• Container Build Standards and Automation
• Continuous Delivery
• Write documentation as needed
• Work as part of an Agile scrum team

Skills:

• Very strong Go or Java language proficiency having at least 3 years’ experience in software and systems engineering
• Good understanding of Networking concepts.
• Good Grasp of Network observability and Telemetry (SNMP, gNMI, RESTful APIs)
• Should have worked on Observability platforms or have strong knowledge of Observability/Telemetry systems.
• Expertise and experience in delivering large-scale systems using big data technologies including but not limited to: Enterprise scale Kafka, Splunk, Prometheus/Loki/Grafana stack, ELK stack and other Time Series databases
• Strong skills with Stream Processing Frameworks
• Good understanding of implementing and deploying Container-based applications via CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of delivering Highly-Available Real-time Distributed Systems
• Strong skills in building RESTful API’s over Data platforms
• Good understanding of the Git version control system
• Excellent problem-solving skills