Unisys Corporation

Sr Engineer - Applications & Automation

Unisys Corporation$90K — $120K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BA/BS degree with 4-6 years of relevant experience or equivalent.
  • Proven experience supporting and configuring enterprise applications in complex environments.
  • Familiarity with observability/monitoring platforms like Datadog, New Relic, or Splunk.
  • Hands-on skills with metrics, logs, traces, and alerting systems.
  • Strong scripting skills in Python, PowerShell, or Bash.
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or Ansible.
  • Knowledge of AWS, Azure, or GCP monitoring services.

Responsibilities

  • Resolve complex client and user operational issues efficiently.
  • Collaborate with team members to finalize end-user requirements and specifications.
  • Design and enhance solution strategies to meet SLA requirements.
  • Maintain technical design specifications and make necessary configuration changes.
  • Configure and maintain observability solutions across various platforms.
  • Develop insightful dashboards for monitoring system health and performance.
  • Support incident management with actionable monitoring insights.

Benefits

  • Career development opportunities in a growing field.
  • Access to cutting-edge observability and monitoring technologies.
  • Collaboration with highly skilled DevOps and engineering teams.
  • Involvement in innovative AIOps and automation initiatives.
Full Job Description
What success looks like in this role:
• Responds to and resolves higher level / more complex client and user operational issues.
• Works with Enterprise Applications team members to define end-user requirements, functionality specifications and deliverables.
• Designs new and modifies existing solution strategies to ensure achievement of SLA requirements.
• Maintains all technical deliverables including technical design specifications and configuration changes.
• Performs application configuration, extension, integration and performance tuning.
• Handles issues escalated from less experienced team members, clients and other stakeholders.
• Helps design, plan and implement enhancements to standard operating procedures.

Observability Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and manage monitoring and observability solutions for servers, applications, databases, network devices, and cloud environments.
  • Configure and maintain observability platforms for metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts.
  • Develop dashboards and reports to provide visibility into system health, service performance, availability, and operational KPIs.
  • Set up and fine-tune alerting mechanisms, thresholds, escalation rules, and notification workflows to ensure timely incident detection and response.
  • Monitor infrastructure and application performance to ensure adherence to SLA, SLO, and availability targets.
  • Perform analysis of logs, alerts, and telemetry data to identify trends, anomalies, and potential service risks.
  • Support incident management, problem management, and root cause analysis by providing actionable monitoring insights.
  • Integrate monitoring tools with ITSM, event management, automation, and ticketing platforms.
  • Reduce alert noise through alert optimization, event correlation, and dependency mapping.
  • Support cloud and platform migrations by ensuring observability coverage during transformation initiatives.
  • Collaborate with DevOps, SRE, and engineering teams to embed observability into system architecture and deployment pipelines.
  • Perform capacity planning, utilization analysis, and trend forecasting for infrastructure and application environments.
  • Automate monitoring configuration, maintenance, and deployment using scripting or Infrastructure as Code practices.
  • Maintain operational documentation, runbooks, dashboard standards, and monitoring governance processes.
  • Ensure compliance with logging, monitoring, audit, and operational security requirements.
  • Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives including AIOps, self-healing, automation, and proactive event management.


You will be successful in this role if you have:
  • BA/BS degree and 4-6 years of relevant experience, or equivalent.
  • Experience supporting and configuring enterprise applications in complex environments.
  • Proficiency with observability/monitoring platforms (e.g., Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic, Splunk, Elastic, Prometheus, Grafana).
  • Hands-on experience with metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerting systems.
  • Strong scripting/automation skills (Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar).
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation).
  • Working knowledge of AWS, Azure, or GCP monitoring and logging services.
  • Experience integrating monitoring tools with ITSM and event management platforms.
  • Ability to perform root cause analysis, trend analysis, and capacity planning using telemetry data.
  • Experience embedding observability into CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows.
  • Ability to design and optimize alerting rules, thresholds, and correlation logic.
  • Understanding of logging/monitoring compliance, audit, and security requirements.
  • Experience with automation, AIOps, and self-healing or event-driven operations.


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This role may require access to export-controlled commodities and technology. Therefore, to conform to U.S. export control regulations, applicant should be eligible for any required authorizations from the U.S. Government.

About Unisys Corporation

Unisys Corporation is an American information technology company that provides a wide range of IT services, software, and technology solutions to businesses and governments around the world. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania. Unisys Corporation has operations in more than 100 countries and employs approximately 20,000 people. The company's products and services include cloud computing, cybersecurity, data analytics, digital workplace services, and more. Unisys Corporation is committed to helping its clients achieve their business goals through innovative technology solutions.
Learn more about Unisys Corporation
Size
16,300 employees
Market Cap
$311.1 million
Industry
Net Income
$750.7 million
Founded
1984
5 Year Trend
-6.1%
Revenue
$2 billion
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