
Senior Performance and Observability Engineer
The Hartford
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Charlotte • Connecticut • Illinois • United States
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Salary
💰 $116,800 - $175,200 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Configure and maintain observability capabilities for applications and infrastructure in partnership with SRE and AIOps teams
- Assess code, configuration, and infrastructure changes for production readiness
- Strategize, analyze, and optimize applications for performance, scalability, and availability using DevSecOps principles and modern technologies
- Continuously validate load, stability, and reliability standards
- Design, create, and maintain dashboards
- Implement APM, log analytics, error analytics, and business analytics solutions using tools such as Dynatrace, Splunk, Akamai, and other observability platforms
- Monitor cloud and on-prem application stability trends and proactively identify opportunities to improve performance and availability
- Automate system scalability and enhance resiliency, performance, and efficiency
- Recommend design changes for improved reliability and reduced operational risk
- Collaborate with Incident and Problem Managers to drive blameless RCA, postmortems, and RCRs, leveraging engineering and tool expertise
- Configure and fine-tune AI-based analytics for effective root cause analysis while minimizing false positives and improving detection accuracy
- Develop automated monitoring and alerting solutions for software delivery and production environments using tools/frameworks like Dynatrace, ServiceNow, Ansible, Splunk, Akamai, OpenTelemetry , and AWS CloudWatch
- Contribute to next-generation alerting, problem-solving, and self-healing IT assets, reducing manual toil and improving efficiency in performance testing and engineering processes
- Stay current with emerging technologies and best practices in observability, performance engineering, and automation, applying them to enhance system reliability and operational excellence
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Information Technology, Computer Science Engineering, or related field
- 7+ years of experience in performance engineering or related roles
- Expertise in Dynatrace, LoadRunner, and Splunk for performance analysis, alerting, and monitoring solutions
- Strong proficiency in performance testing processes and automation
- Experience with cloud-native technologies, including containerization, microservices, and serverless computing
- Skilled in APM tools, application server instrumentation (Java), Real User Monitoring, and Synthetic Monitoring
- Familiarity with Agile, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering practices
- Knowledge of Event Management in ServiceNow (preferred)
- Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and debugging skills
- Strong communication and collaboration abilities, with experience coaching engineering teams
- Candidate must be authorized to work in the US without company sponsorship.
Benefits
- Other rewards may include short-term or annual bonuses
- long-term incentives
- on-the-spot recognition
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
performance engineeringperformance testingautomationroot cause analysiscloud-native technologiescontainerizationmicroservicesserverless computingapplication instrumentationdebugging
Soft Skills
analytical skillsproblem-solvingcommunicationcollaborationcoaching