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This role is intended for a senior hands-on engineer who can take end-to-end ownership of observability infrastructure for production environments. The engineer will be responsible for building reliable telemetry pipelines for logs, metrics, and distributed traces, optimizing ClickHouse for large-scale observability workloads, operating HyperDX for troubleshooting and application performance analysis, and partnering with application, platform, and SRE teams to improve production visibility, reliability, and incident response. The ideal candidate is deeply technical, operationally disciplined, automation-oriented, and comfortable working in high-volume, production-critical environments. Senior-level expectation: This role requires ownership beyond task execution, including technical judgment, production accountability, automation-first delivery, mentoring, and clear communication during incidents and escalations.\nKey Responsibilities\nDesign, build, and operate scalable observability platforms using ClickHouse, HyperDX, OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, Fluent Bit, and Filebeat.\nArchitect and optimize ClickHouse for high-volume observability workloads, including logs, traces, metrics, and telemetry analytics.\nDesign and manage ClickHouse schemas, partitioning strategies, ordering keys, TTLs, materialized views, retention policies, storage efficiency, and query optimization.\nBuild, operate, and improve HyperDX for log search, distributed tracing, service analysis, dashboards, telemetry correlation, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.\nBuild and maintain scalable OpenTelemetry Collector pipelines for collecting, processing, enriching, filtering, sampling, and routing telemetry data.\nImplement reliable correlation across logs, metrics, and traces to support faster application troubleshooting, service dependency analysis, and incident resolution.\nDesign resilient telemetry pipelines with batching, queuing, retries, backpressure handling, sampling, rate limiting, and cardinality controls.\nDeploy and operate observability infrastructure on Kubernetes, with focus on scalability, high availability, capacity planning, resiliency, and operational safety.\nAutomate infrastructure deployment, configuration management, platform upgrades, application onboarding, and recurring operational tasks using DevOps best practices.\nBuild and maintain CI/CD workflows using Jenkins, infrastructure automation using Terraform and Ansible, and service discovery or secrets management integrations using HashiCorp Consul and Vault.\nPartner with application engineering, platform engineering, SRE, and operations teams to troubleshoot production issues, improve observability coverage, and reduce mean time to detect and resolve incidents.\nAnalyze production performance issues across infrastructure, applications, telemetry pipelines, and ClickHouse queries, and drive corrective actions to closure.\nDefine and improve standards for telemetry instrumentation, log quality, metric hygiene, trace propagation, dashboard design, alert quality, and production readiness.\nParticipate in incident response, post-incident reviews, capacity planning, operational reviews, and remediation tracking for observability services.\nMentor junior engineers, review designs and automation changes, and raise the overall technical and operational maturity of the team. Required Qualifications\n6+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or Observability Engineering roles.\nStrong production experience with ClickHouse, including architecture, administration, schema design, performance tuning, query optimization, troubleshooting, retention management, and operations at scale.\nHands-on experience deploying and operating HyperDX, including integration with ClickHouse and usage for log search, distributed tracing, dashboards, service analysis, and troubleshooting.\nStrong experience with OpenTelemetry and OpenTelemetry Collector, including receiver, processor, exporter, sampling, enrichment, batching, and routing configurations.\nStrong working knowledge of Fluent Bit, Filebeat, Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana, ClickHouse, HyperDX, and OpenTelemetry.\nStrong DevOps and automation experience with Jenkins, CI/CD pipelines, Ansible, Terraform, HashiCorp Consul, HashiCorp Vault, and Kubernetes.\nStrong understanding of Linux, networking, microservices, REST, gRPC, distributed systems, high-availability architectures, and production operations.\nExperience operating and troubleshooting high-volume production systems with focus on reliability, scalability, capacity, and performance.\nAbility to debug complex issues across application telemetry, Kubernetes infrastructure, data ingestion pipelines, storage systems, and query performance.\nStrong scripting and automation skills, with the ability to reduce manual operations and improve repeatability, reliability, and operational efficiency.\nAbility to take ownership of production systems, drive problems to closure, communicate clearly during incidents, and collaborate effectively with engineering and operations teams. Preferred Qualifications\nDevelopment experience with Java and Python, including the ability to understand application code, troubleshoot instrumentation issues, and analyze performance behavior.\nExperience developing automation, internal tools, APIs, platform services, or self-service onboarding workflows.\nExperience with Kafka or other high-throughput messaging and streaming platforms.\nStrong understanding of APM, distributed tracing, OpenTelemetry instrumentation, context propagation, service maps, and service dependency analysis.\nExperience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI.\nExperience designing observability solutions for large-scale Kubernetes, microservices, or distributed application environments.\nExperience improving alert quality, reducing noise, defining SLOs or SLIs, and supporting production readiness reviews. Senior Engineer Expectations As a Senior DevOps Engineer, this role is expected to go beyond task execution and operate with strong ownership, judgment, technical leadership, and accountability for production outcomes. The candidate should be able to:\nOwn critical observability services end to end, from design and implementation to production operations, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement.\nMake sound technical decisions around scalability, reliability, performance, cost, capacity, security, and operational maintainability.\nProactively identify risks, gaps, and scaling bottlenecks before they become production issues.\nBuild automation-first solutions rather than relying on manual processes.\nLead technical investigations during complex incidents and drive clear remediation plans.\nInfluence application and platform teams to improve instrumentation quality, telemetry consistency, and operational readiness.\nWrite clear technical documentation, operational runbooks, onboarding guides, and incident review notes.\nMentor engineers, review technical designs, and help establish standards for observability engineering.\nCommunicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders during incidents, escalations, and planning discussions.\nDemonstrate strong accountability for production stability, platform reliability, and measurable operational outcomes.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7758,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":6,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Cloud Security","Security Compliance","Vulnerability Management"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-08-28T00:00:00Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":48,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.806,"p_room":0.6,"age_days":49,"expected_fill_days":59,"reasons":["conf:7","velocity","win:late","crowd:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-16T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/qualys-senior-devops-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/qualys-senior-devops-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-16T23:36:55Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":5621,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-17T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":18966},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=18966"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fqualys-senior-devops-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fqualys-senior-devops-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fqualys-senior-devops-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/qualys-senior-devops-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fqualys-senior-devops-engineer"}]}