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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) joins the team to own and drive the enterprise Observability Strategy across multiple platforms and technology domains. The role involves defining and governing SLIs, SLOs, Error Budgets, and reliability standards while architecting scalable solutions for telemetry, distributed tracing, logging, metrics, synthetic monitoring, and APM/RUM capabilities. You will establish governance frameworks, manage dashboard lifecycles, and serve as a technical advisor to leadership on production readiness and risk management. The position requires expertise in Site Reliability Engineering and proficiency with tools such as Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, New Relic, Elastic, or OpenTelemetry. You will solve complex problems regarding service health, latency, and availability within distributed systems, microservices, and cloud platforms to improve overall system resilience and reduce operational noise through advanced analysis of incident data.
Own and drive the enterprise Observability Strategy across multiple platforms and technology domains.
Define and govern enterprise-wide SLIs, SLOs, Error Budgets, and reliability standards.
Architect scalable observability solutions using telemetry, distributed tracing, logging, metrics, and synthetic monitoring.
Establish and oversee governance frameworks for instrumentation standards, telemetry policies, and alert management.
Advise leadership on technology strategy, production readiness, and operational risk management.
Design and evolve executive reporting for service health, availability, latency, and reliability trends.
Analyze incident data and telemetry to reduce operational noise and improve service resiliency.
Provide technical leadership and mentorship for observability engineering practices across the enterprise.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
Five to seven years of relevant experience in business/risk analysis, IT Service Management, production support, project management, or application development.
Expertise in Observability Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Reliability Engineering.
Strong knowledge of SLIs, SLOs, Error Budgets, and Customer Journey Monitoring.
Hands-on experience with APM, RUM, synthetics, monitoring, logging, tracing, and telemetry frameworks.
Proficiency with tools such as Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, New Relic, Elastic, or OpenTelemetry.
Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, cloud platforms, and Kubernetes.
Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and technical leadership skills.