At Anaplan, we are a high‑growth company leading the way in enterprise planning.
Read the overview of this opportunity to understand what skills, including and relevant soft skills and software package proficiencies, are required.
We are seeking a self‑motivated Observability Engineer to join the Observability Infrastructure team. In this role you will work on tools used to collect and analyze Observability telemetry (Logs, Metrics, and Traces). You will enable engineers across the business to see how their services are performing and interacting in a scalable, performant, and cost‑effective manner.
This role requires you to be in our London office twice a week.
Your Impact:
- Administer observability infrastructure.
- Deploy and configure OTEL agents to collect telemetry and visualise the data in Grafana.
- Pair with colleagues to build everything from rapid prototypes to highly testable platform capabilities.
- Coach and collaborate with platform and product engineers to share best practices on observability techniques and deliver value.
- Develop custom code in a testable and sustainable way. The team is most fluent in Python, but we are always happy to use the right language to solve a problem.
- Work with Terraform to deploy Dashboards and Alerts to our Grafana instances in a managed and repeatable way.
- Translate product goals into prioritized platform requirements.
- Operate in a complex and evolving environment.
- Anaplan provides services using multiple cloud vendors and our data centers.
- Collect data from Kubernetes, VMs, and bare metal systems.
- Encourage and enable the adoption of observability tools to drive great decisions in the business.
Your Qualifications:
- Experience with TDD (Test Driven Development) and BDD (Behavioural Driven Development).
- Experience working with Kubernetes.
- Experience with DevOps tools like Terraform, Jenkins, or Ansible.
- Experience working in an agile environment.
- We are looking for people with experience with at least some of these tools or similar products and enthusiasm for learning.
- Familiarity with Telegraf, InfluxDB, Grafana (TIG).
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB)
We believe that attracting and retaining the best talent and fostering an inclusive culture strengthens our business. DEIB improves our workforce, enhances trust with our partners and customers, and drives business success. Build your career in a place where diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging aren’t just words on paper – this is what drives our innovation, it’s how we connect, and it contributes to what makes us a market leader. We believe in a hiring and working environment where all people are respected and valued, regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, or any other aspect which makes people unique. We hire you for who you are, and we want you to bring your authentic self to work every day!
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