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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 4 (Observability Specialist) serves as a senior-level technical leader focused on translating customer journeys into measurable reliability objectives. Working with product owners, application engineering, and SRE teams, the role establishes governance for SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and telemetry standards to ensure service reliability. Day-to-day responsibilities include designing observability architectures, managing synthetic monitoring, developing executive health dashboards, and performing incident analysis to reduce alert fatigue. The position requires expertise in distributed systems, microservices, and cloud platforms like Kubernetes. Candidates should possess hands-on experience with tools such as Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, New Relic, Elastic, or OpenTelemetry. This role addresses the critical business problem of ensuring production-ready applications remain reliable by providing high-quality data for detection and triage while aligning technical monitoring strategies with specific customer outcomes and operational risk management.
Translate customer journeys and business outcomes into measurable reliability objectives like SLIs and SLOs.
Establish and maintain governance frameworks for dashboards, alerts, synthetic monitoring, and telemetry standards.
Design and implement scalable observability architectures including instrumentation standards and tagging frameworks.
Develop executive and operational service health dashboards to monitor availability, latency, and customer impact.
Analyze telemetry data and incident trends to identify gaps and reduce alert fatigue.
Provide technical leadership and mentorship on distributed tracing, logging, and performance monitoring.
Maintain an authoritative inventory of all observability assets and ensure compliance with established standards.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
Six to eight 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).
Ability to leverage incident analysis, RCA, and performance data to drive reliability improvements (preferred).