Monitoring and Observability Architect

This is a remote position.

Monitoring & Observability Architect

Role overview: Design, implement, and operate scalable observability platforms to provide metrics, logs, traces, and alerts for cloud-native, distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain Observability pipelines and dashboards (metrics, logs, traces).
  
• Define and track SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs; create actionable alerts.
  
• Instrument apps/infrastructure with OpenTelemetry and vendor SDKs.
  
• Integrate and operate tools (Splunk, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/EFK, Datadog, New Relic)
  
• Automate deployments with CI/CD and IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation).
  
• Collaborate with dev, SRE, and platform teams; produce runbooks and post-incident reports.
  

Requirements

Required

• Hands-on with Splunk at least two monitoring tools (Splunk, Prometheus & Grafana, ELK/EFK, Datadog, New Relic).
  
• Strong scripting/programming (Python, Go, or Bash).
  
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, microservices, and distributed systems.
  
• Experience defining SLOs/SLIs/SLAs.
  
• Familiar with CI/CD and IaC; experience on AWS.
  

Preferred

• OpenTelemetry and distributed tracing experience.
  
• Service mesh telemetry (Istio/Linkerd).
  
• Experience in regulated environments (e.g., FDA) and telemetry cost/retention optimization.
  

Soft skills

• Clear communicator, collaborative, proactive, and good at mentoring.
  

Benefits