Reliability Observability Engineer 2

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions, enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed in the right ways, all more confidently and more often—that’s what we call the courage to thrive.   We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.  As a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bank, Elavon is committed to building the platforms and ecosystems that help over 1.5 million customers around the world to achieve their financial goals—no matter what they need. From transaction processing to customer service, to driving innovation and launching new products, we’re building a range of tailored payment solutions powered by the latest technology. As part of our team, you can explore what motivates and energizes your career goals: partnering with our customers, our communities, and each other.  Job Description Job Description Key Responsibilities Lead Observability Strategy across critical customer journeys, aligning monitoring capabilities with business outcomes, reliability goals, and customer experience. Define, implement, and govern SLIs, SLOs, Error Budgets, and Reliability Metrics for enterprise applications and services. Design and maintain scalable Observability Architectures , including telemetry instrumentation, monitoring frameworks, tagging standards, and alerting models. Establish Observability Governance for dashboards, alerts, synthetic monitoring, telemetry standards, and lifecycle management of monitoring assets. Partner with Product, Engineering, SRE, and Operations teams to ensure production readiness, application instrumentation, and reliability measurement. Develop and optimize Service Health Dashboards and Reporting that provide visibility into availability, latency, customer impact, dependency performance, and SLO compliance. Analyze telemetry data, incidents, alert history, problem records, and performance trends to identify gaps, reduce alert fatigue, and improve detection accuracy. Provide technical leadership and mentorship on Distributed Tracing, Logging, Metrics, Synthetic Monitoring, Application Performance Monitoring (APM), Real User Monitoring (RUM), and Alert Governance best practices. Basic Qualifications - Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience - Four to five years of relevant work experience in business and risk analysis, IT Service Management, production support, product/project management, or application development Preferred Skills/Experience Expertise in Observability Engineering , Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) , or Reliability Engineering . Strong knowledge of SLIs, SLOs, Error Budgets, and Customer Journey Monitoring . Demonstrated ability to understand stakeholder needs and guide the development of reliability requirements for large, complex multi-system products. Hands-on experience with APM, RUM, synthetics, monitoring, logging, tracing, and telemetry frameworks . Proficiency with Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, New Relic, Elastic, or OpenTelemetry . Experience building, standardizing, and tuning operational dashboards and actionable alerts  that communicate service health, customer impact, dependency health, performance trends, failure conditions, severity, ownership, routing, and runbook linkage. Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, cloud platforms, and Kubernetes . Ability to leverage incident analysis, RCA, and performance data to drive reliability improvements. Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and technical leadership skills. Location expectations   This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week. If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our  disability accommodations for applicants . Benefits:   Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members’ whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following: Healthcare (medical, dental, vision) Basic term and optional term life insurance Short-term and long-term disability Pregnancy disability and parental leave 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure) Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities Adoption assistance Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law Review our full benefits available by employment status here . U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, and other factors protected under applicable law. E-Verify U.S. Bank participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security E-Verify program in all facilities located in the United States and certain U.S. territories. The E-Verify program is an Internet-based employment eligibility verification system operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Learn more about the  E-Verify program . The salary range reflects figures based on the primary location, which is listed first. The actual range for the role may differ based on the location of the role. In addition to salary, U.S. Bank offers a comprehensive benefits package, including incentive and recognition programs, equity stock