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Talk to an Expert ›An Observability Engineer moves beyond making the internal state of an organization’s infrastructure and services visible to stakeholders. It’s beyond just developing platforms and tooling to enable threat hunting, troubleshooting, capacity planning, reporting, and performance analysis.
It means more than just defining and delivering on a company’s observability roadmap while knowing the latest and greatest of emerging observability trends, tools and methodologies to continuously enhance systems and processes.
They build monitoring tools, develop pipelines, sometimes investigate incidents, and most certainly troubleshoot from time to time.
Have you built monitoring tools? Developed a data pipeline or two? Dealt with time series data? Maybe distributed tracing? Have you been asked to monitor and review an organization’s overall security posture? If so, the answer is most likely YES.
Every organization has had a different “title” for this role (think SRE, or Tooling Admin, sometimes Security Analyst…oh and there’s more). No matter what it’s been called thus far, it’s time we call it what it really is…an Observability Engineer.
It’s really a person with a particular set of skills. As organizations continue to move forward in their digital transformation, this person with this particular set of skills, regardless of title, will be more and more in demand. These particular set of skills aren’t the type of skills only reserved for the one and only Liam Neeson, they can be learned through a career in IT and Security with the right mindset.
An Observability Engineer must understand the concept of data producers and consumers. Along with great technical skills (and potential certifications below), they must be curious, possess critical soft skills, and the ability to communicate across IT and business stakeholders.
Moving from an IT and Security Data Admin to an Observability Engineer
Observability engineers play a critical role in organizations. It’s one that crosses numerous departments and the tools/technologies in use. And it’s becoming more and more critical every day as data volumes continue to rise and enterprises understand the importance of this data.
Moreover, organizations are continuously forced to deal with a deluge of new observability and security requirements, and look no further than the Observability Engineer to make sense of and implement these requirements. But it’s no small feat as data volumes increase and budgets are staying flat or contracting.
Well, first of all it’s time to set a standard. It’s time to validate what it truly means to be an Observability Engineer and define this role and skill set. It’s time to recognize the leaders and the experts as well as shape a path to becoming one by providing the right guidance.
There are several certifications beneficial for SREs, or insert cloud platform name here admin, security analysts, etc, and they are great. But only a few are vendor agnostic. Here are the ones we recommend:
But rest assured, we put together a list of great content to help you avoid vendor lock in your observability journey, as well as some of the advanced content you’ll need to be successful in this role.
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