Lead Platform Engineer

Sr. Site Reliability Engineer

*6-month contract to hire, or long term contract*

Fully Remote while on contract. Hybrid if converting to FTE.

Optomi, in partnership with our premier client in the financial services industry, is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to join a high-performing Monitoring & Observability Engineering team within a fast-paced enterprise technology environment. This role will focus on designing, building, and enhancing scalable monitoring and observability solutions that improve platform reliability, operational visibility, and system performance across modern cloud and distributed environments.

The ideal candidate brings strong Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, deep hands-on observability expertise, and the ability to collaborate across engineering, infrastructure, and operations teams to improve monitoring standards and operational maturity.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable monitoring and observability solutions across cloud and containerized platforms
• Build and optimize observability capabilities to improve system reliability, performance, and operational insight

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• Develop automation, tooling, and integrations to streamline monitoring operations and incident response
• Support monitoring and telemetry collection across distributed systems and microservices-based environments
• Collaborate with engineering, platform, and operations teams to establish observability best practices and standards
• Troubleshoot complex production and performance issues across infrastructure and application environments
• Contribute to operational excellence initiatives using SRE methodologies and reliability engineering practices

Required Qualifications

• Deep experience designing and supporting scalable monitoring and observability platforms
• Strong hands-on expertise with modern observability and monitoring technologies, including Elastic Observability
• Strong scripting and programming experience
• Experience with cloud platforms and container orchestration technologies

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• Strong understanding of distributed systems architecture and reliability principles
• Excellent troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration abilities

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling
• Experience querying, analyzing, and visualizing time-series data
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools
• Understanding of microservices and event-driven architectures
• Working knowledge of REST APIs, JSON, and ServiceNow integrations
• Experience supporting cloud-native monitoring environments