Also called: Monitoring Engineer
Builds the dashboards and alarms that tell engineers exactly what is happening inside their software.
You set up monitoring so that if checkout gets slow anywhere in the world, the right engineer gets paged within a minute with a chart showing why. You trim noisy alerts and help teams find problems before customers do.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 6 years after high school. Bachelor's in computer science or IT; experience in DevOps or site reliability.
Ways in: 4-year college, On-the-job training, Certification. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Computer Science, Information Technology.
Growing much faster than average (about 15% over 10 years). Tracks software developers.
Medium risk for 10 years. AI now spots anomalies and explains alerts on its own; designing what to measure across systems stays human.
Classes: AP Computer Science A, AP Statistics.
Official data: O*NET occupation 15-1252.
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