Observability SRE - S&P Global
Princeton, NJ
About the Job
About the Role:
Grade Level (for internal use):
09
The Team: S&P Ratings
About the SRE Monitoring Team:
The SRE Monitoring team is a team of engineers establishing monitoring and observability standards and solutions at SPGI - Ratings while being the custodians of the monitoring platform. The SRE Monitoring team has great exposure to many teams and technologies in the Ratings Technology organization allowing for involvement in varied and diverse technology initiatives.
Responsibilities and Impact:
As an Observability Engineer, you will be responsible for configuring, maintaining, and maximizing the platform that makes SPGI – Ratings division’s critical applications and infrastructure visible and easily investigable. The SRE Monitoring team leverages a number of cutting-edge observability and monitoring tools and is looking to bring on an engineer that will take this platform to the next level. You will be applying DevOps principles to manage the platform and help to drive functionality and adoption through continuous improvement, simplification, and automation. You'll work within a team of fellow observability and SRE engineers to make SPGI – Ratings technology reliability best of breed.
What you'll be doing:
+ Implement, maintain, and consult on the observability and monitoring framework that supports the needs of multiple internal stakeholders.
+ Manage Splunk Opentelemetry agents to support custom metric, receivers, and exporters.
+ Develop automation leveraging terraform, Ansible, and python to reduce toil.
+ Manage and maintain Splunk for log management and alerting.
+ Grow and evangelize the capabilities of the observability platform.
+ Continue evolving monitoring tooling toward a standards-based self-service automated platform.
Compensation/Benefits Information: (This section is only applicable to US candidates)
S&P Global states that the anticipated base salary range for this position is $68,000 - $123,000. Final base salary for this role will be based on the individual’s geographic location, as well as experience level, skill set, training, licenses and certifications.
In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible for an annual incentive plan. This role is not eligible for additional compensation such as an annual incentive bonus or sales commission plan.
This role is eligible to receive additional S&P Global benefits. For more information on the benefits we provide to our employees, please click here (https://spgbenefits.com/benefit-summaries) .
What We’re Looking For:
Basic Required Qualifications:
+ Deep technical knowledge and operational experience with one or more of the tools listed below or their equivalents (listed in parentheses):
+ Splunk (ElasticSearch, DataDog)
+ Splunk Observability Cloud
+ Opentelemetry
+ Prometheus
+ Monit
+ Experience using Linux.
+ Experience using and writing Ansible playbooks.
+ Experience with Kubernetes.
+ Ability to read and write simple integration scripts (Python, Ruby, or Go), programs and config files, as well as complex queries and alert definitions.
+ Experience defining, creating, and supporting monitoring dashboards.
+ Familiarity with configuration languages such as Chef and Terraform.
+ Comfort working across departments and stakeholders to evangelize and communicate observability expertise and standards.
+ Collaborate with SRE and other stakeholders to improve efficiency and effectiveness through actionable insights and automation
+ An understanding of AWS such as Lambda and Cloudwatch.
Right to Work Requirements:
This role is limited to persons with indefinite right to work in the United States.
Return to Work:
Have you taken time out for caring responsibilities and are now looking to return to work? As part of our Return to Work initiative, Restart, we are encouraging enthusiastic and talented returners to apply, and will actively support your return to the workplace. *Link here to careers site page when applicable*
About S&P Global Ratings
At S&P Global Ratings, our analyst-driven credit ratings, research, and sustainable finance opinions provide critical insights that are essential to translating complexity into clarity so market participants can uncover opportunities and make decisions with conviction. By bringing transparency to the market through high-quality independent opinions on creditworthiness, we enable growth across a wide variety of organizations, including businesses, governments, and institutions.
S&P Global Ratings is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). S&P Global is the world’s foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity and automotive markets. With every one of our offerings, we help many of the world’s leading organizations navigate the economic landscape so they can plan for tomorrow, today.
For more information, visit www.spglobal.com/ratings
What’s In It For You?
Our Purpose:
Progress is not a self-starter. It requires a catalyst to be set in motion. Information, imagination, people, technology–the right combination can unlock possibility and change the world.
Our world is in transition and getting more complex by the day. We push past expected observations and seek out new levels of understanding so that we can help companies, governments and individuals make an impact on tomorrow. At S&P Global we transform data into Essential Intelligence®, pinpointing risks and opening possibilities. We Accelerate Progress.
Our People:
We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.
From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. We’re committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. We’re constantly seeking new solutions that have progress in mind. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.
Our Values:
Integrity, Discovery, Partnership
At S&P Global, we focus on Powering Global Markets. Throughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of integrity in all we do, bring a spirit of discovery to our work, and collaborate in close partnership with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.
Benefits:
We take care of you, so you can take care of business. We care about our people. That’s why we provide everything you—and your career—need to thrive at S&P Global.
Our benefits include:
+ Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.
+ Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.
+ Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.
+ Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.
+ Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.
+ Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.
For more information on benefits by country visit: https://spgbenefits.com/benefit-summaries
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at S&P Global:
At S&P Global, we believe diversity fuels creative insights, equity unlocks opportunity, and inclusion drives growth and innovation – Powering Global Markets. Our commitment centers on our global workforce, ensuring that our people are empowered to bring their whole selves to work. It doesn’t stop there, we strive to better reflect and serve the communities in which we live and work, and advocate for greater opportunity for all.
S&P Global has a Securities Disclosure and Trading Policy (“the Policy”) that seeks to mitigate conflicts of interest by monitoring and placing restrictions on personal securities holding and trading. The Policy is designed to promote compliance with global regulations. In some Divisions, pursuant to the Policy’s requirements, candidates at S&P Global may be asked to disclose securities holdings. Some roles may include a trading prohibition and remediation of positions when there is an effective or potential conflict of interest. Employment at S&P Global is contingent upon compliance with the Policy.
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Equal Opportunity Employer
S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.
If you need an accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please send an email to: EEO.Compliance@spglobal.com and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate person.
US Candidates Only: The EEO is the Law Poster http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf describes discrimination protections under federal law. Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision - https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ofccp/pdf/pay-transp_%20English_formattedESQA508c.pdf
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203 - Entry Professional (EEO Job Group) (inactive), 20 - Professional (EEO-2 Job Categories-United States of America), IFTECH202.1 - Middle Professional Tier I (EEO Job Group)
Job ID: 310144
Posted On: 2025-01-11
Location: Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Grade Level (for internal use):
09
The Team: S&P Ratings
About the SRE Monitoring Team:
The SRE Monitoring team is a team of engineers establishing monitoring and observability standards and solutions at SPGI - Ratings while being the custodians of the monitoring platform. The SRE Monitoring team has great exposure to many teams and technologies in the Ratings Technology organization allowing for involvement in varied and diverse technology initiatives.
Responsibilities and Impact:
As an Observability Engineer, you will be responsible for configuring, maintaining, and maximizing the platform that makes SPGI – Ratings division’s critical applications and infrastructure visible and easily investigable. The SRE Monitoring team leverages a number of cutting-edge observability and monitoring tools and is looking to bring on an engineer that will take this platform to the next level. You will be applying DevOps principles to manage the platform and help to drive functionality and adoption through continuous improvement, simplification, and automation. You'll work within a team of fellow observability and SRE engineers to make SPGI – Ratings technology reliability best of breed.
What you'll be doing:
+ Implement, maintain, and consult on the observability and monitoring framework that supports the needs of multiple internal stakeholders.
+ Manage Splunk Opentelemetry agents to support custom metric, receivers, and exporters.
+ Develop automation leveraging terraform, Ansible, and python to reduce toil.
+ Manage and maintain Splunk for log management and alerting.
+ Grow and evangelize the capabilities of the observability platform.
+ Continue evolving monitoring tooling toward a standards-based self-service automated platform.
Compensation/Benefits Information: (This section is only applicable to US candidates)
S&P Global states that the anticipated base salary range for this position is $68,000 - $123,000. Final base salary for this role will be based on the individual’s geographic location, as well as experience level, skill set, training, licenses and certifications.
In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible for an annual incentive plan. This role is not eligible for additional compensation such as an annual incentive bonus or sales commission plan.
This role is eligible to receive additional S&P Global benefits. For more information on the benefits we provide to our employees, please click here (https://spgbenefits.com/benefit-summaries) .
What We’re Looking For:
Basic Required Qualifications:
+ Deep technical knowledge and operational experience with one or more of the tools listed below or their equivalents (listed in parentheses):
+ Splunk (ElasticSearch, DataDog)
+ Splunk Observability Cloud
+ Opentelemetry
+ Prometheus
+ Monit
+ Experience using Linux.
+ Experience using and writing Ansible playbooks.
+ Experience with Kubernetes.
+ Ability to read and write simple integration scripts (Python, Ruby, or Go), programs and config files, as well as complex queries and alert definitions.
+ Experience defining, creating, and supporting monitoring dashboards.
+ Familiarity with configuration languages such as Chef and Terraform.
+ Comfort working across departments and stakeholders to evangelize and communicate observability expertise and standards.
+ Collaborate with SRE and other stakeholders to improve efficiency and effectiveness through actionable insights and automation
+ An understanding of AWS such as Lambda and Cloudwatch.
Right to Work Requirements:
This role is limited to persons with indefinite right to work in the United States.
Return to Work:
Have you taken time out for caring responsibilities and are now looking to return to work? As part of our Return to Work initiative, Restart, we are encouraging enthusiastic and talented returners to apply, and will actively support your return to the workplace. *Link here to careers site page when applicable*
About S&P Global Ratings
At S&P Global Ratings, our analyst-driven credit ratings, research, and sustainable finance opinions provide critical insights that are essential to translating complexity into clarity so market participants can uncover opportunities and make decisions with conviction. By bringing transparency to the market through high-quality independent opinions on creditworthiness, we enable growth across a wide variety of organizations, including businesses, governments, and institutions.
S&P Global Ratings is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). S&P Global is the world’s foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity and automotive markets. With every one of our offerings, we help many of the world’s leading organizations navigate the economic landscape so they can plan for tomorrow, today.
For more information, visit www.spglobal.com/ratings
What’s In It For You?
Our Purpose:
Progress is not a self-starter. It requires a catalyst to be set in motion. Information, imagination, people, technology–the right combination can unlock possibility and change the world.
Our world is in transition and getting more complex by the day. We push past expected observations and seek out new levels of understanding so that we can help companies, governments and individuals make an impact on tomorrow. At S&P Global we transform data into Essential Intelligence®, pinpointing risks and opening possibilities. We Accelerate Progress.
Our People:
We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.
From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. We’re committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. We’re constantly seeking new solutions that have progress in mind. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.
Our Values:
Integrity, Discovery, Partnership
At S&P Global, we focus on Powering Global Markets. Throughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of integrity in all we do, bring a spirit of discovery to our work, and collaborate in close partnership with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.
Benefits:
We take care of you, so you can take care of business. We care about our people. That’s why we provide everything you—and your career—need to thrive at S&P Global.
Our benefits include:
+ Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.
+ Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.
+ Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.
+ Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.
+ Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.
+ Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.
For more information on benefits by country visit: https://spgbenefits.com/benefit-summaries
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at S&P Global:
At S&P Global, we believe diversity fuels creative insights, equity unlocks opportunity, and inclusion drives growth and innovation – Powering Global Markets. Our commitment centers on our global workforce, ensuring that our people are empowered to bring their whole selves to work. It doesn’t stop there, we strive to better reflect and serve the communities in which we live and work, and advocate for greater opportunity for all.
S&P Global has a Securities Disclosure and Trading Policy (“the Policy”) that seeks to mitigate conflicts of interest by monitoring and placing restrictions on personal securities holding and trading. The Policy is designed to promote compliance with global regulations. In some Divisions, pursuant to the Policy’s requirements, candidates at S&P Global may be asked to disclose securities holdings. Some roles may include a trading prohibition and remediation of positions when there is an effective or potential conflict of interest. Employment at S&P Global is contingent upon compliance with the Policy.
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Equal Opportunity Employer
S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.
If you need an accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please send an email to: EEO.Compliance@spglobal.com and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate person.
US Candidates Only: The EEO is the Law Poster http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf describes discrimination protections under federal law. Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision - https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ofccp/pdf/pay-transp_%20English_formattedESQA508c.pdf
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203 - Entry Professional (EEO Job Group) (inactive), 20 - Professional (EEO-2 Job Categories-United States of America), IFTECH202.1 - Middle Professional Tier I (EEO Job Group)
Job ID: 310144
Posted On: 2025-01-11
Location: Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Source : S&P Global