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About US Bank
U.S. Bank (U.S. Bancorp) is the fifth-largest bank in the United States, providing retail banking, corporate and commercial banking, wealth management, and payment services to millions of customers. Industry: Banking & Financial Services
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Reliability Engineer 3 (Observability Specialist) serves as a senior-level technical lead responsible for enabling reliable, measurable, and supportable application operations across a broad portfolio of production applications. The role involves partnering with product owners and engineering teams to translate customer journeys into measurable reliability objectives by designing and governing SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and telemetry standards. You will build and maintain executive dashboards, manage synthetic monitoring, and perform incident analysis to reduce alert fatigue while ensuring high service availability. Key technical requirements include expertise in distributed systems, microservices, and Kubernetes, alongside proficiency with tools such as Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, New Relic, Elastic, or OpenTelemetry. The role focuses on solving complex reliability challenges by providing actionable visibility into service health, performance trends, and failure conditions to improve overall system stability.
Design and govern Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for enterprise applications.
Translate business requirements into scalable observability architectures including instrumentation standards and alerting models.
Develop and maintain executive dashboards to communicate service health, latency, and customer impact.
Identify observability gaps by analyzing telemetry data, incident trends, and alert performance.
Provide technical leadership and mentorship on distributed tracing, logging, metrics, and synthetic monitoring.
Establish governance frameworks for the lifecycle management of dashboards, alerts, and telemetry standards.
Partner with engineering teams to ensure applications are fully instrumented for production readiness.
Maintain an authoritative inventory of all observability assets and compliance documentation.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
Five to seven years of relevant work experience in business and risk analysis, IT Service Management, production support, product/project management, or application development.
Expertise in Observability Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Reliability Engineering (preferred).
Strong knowledge of SLIs, SLOs, Error Budgets, and Customer Journey Monitoring (preferred).
Hands-on experience with APM, RUM, synthetics, monitoring, logging, tracing, and telemetry frameworks (preferred).
Proficiency with Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, New Relic, Elastic, or OpenTelemetry (preferred).
Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, cloud platforms, and Kubernetes (preferred).
Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and technical leadership skills (preferred).