SRE / Observability Engineer

SRE / Observability Engineer
Location: Irving, TX
Program: Platform Diversification / VMware to OpenShift Virtualization Migration

Job Summary
We are looking for an SRE / Observability Engineer to establish monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational visibility for the VMware-to-OpenShift Virtualization migration program. The engineer will provide migration telemetry, detect infrastructure and VM health issues early, support rapid fault isolation, and generate technical evidence for migration acceptance.

Key Responsibilities
Instrument OpenShift clusters, KubeVirt, MTV, storage, and network components for monitoring.

Configure and maintain Prometheus and Grafana monitoring.

Implement alerts for migration failures, transfer throughput, capacity, node pressure, and VM availability.

Monitor migration pipelines and identify performance bottlenecks.

Collect and analyze logs, metrics, Kubernetes events, and relevant operational telemetry.

Support incident triage and root-cause analysis for migration and infrastructure issues.

Define and monitor service-level objectives (SLOs) and relevant operational indicators.

Build dashboards for migration progress, infrastructure health, and workload availability.

Automate monitoring, reporting, and evidence collection where appropriate.

Provide technical acceptance evidence and operational handover documentation.

Collaborate with platform, migration, storage, and network engineering teams.

Support platform foundation, pilot migrations, production migration waves, and hypercare.

Required Technical Skills
Experience with SRE, observability, or infrastructure monitoring.

Hands-on experience with Red Hat OpenShift monitoring.

Knowledge of KubeVirt and Kubernetes events.

Experience with Prometheus and Grafana.

Familiarity with logging and alerting platforms, including Alertmanager.

Understanding of SLOs, capacity analysis, and incident triage.

Experience monitoring VM availability, storage, network health, and data-transfer performance.

Strong troubleshooting and log/metrics analysis skills.

Scripting and automation experience.

Ability to develop operational dashboards and monitoring reports.

Lifecycle Participation
Platform foundation, pilot migration,all migration waves, hypercare, and steady-state operational handover.