Job Title: Observability Principal Architect
Location: 100% Remote, USA
Employment Type: Contract
Duration: Long-Term
Need 15+ to 25 years of experience
Observability Principal Architect will take care of the below points:
Platform monitoring, platform observability, Principal architect
Just be hardcore full tikka experience.
Talk to C level people, VP, SVPs
Design a company’s ,monitoring and
Protecting revenue, company revenue 2.4 Million
Drive estimate how many staffs are required
Will design company’s revenue
Reduce It operation cost
Where to invest in tools and where not
Highly impactful lead
Job Description
Purpose
Lead the observability assessment and define a unified, AI-enabled, service-centric target-state architecture and transformation roadmap.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end engagement including stakeholder alignment, workshops, and governance
- Define and execute assessment framework across:
- Application, Data/Batch, and Infrastructure layers
- Coverage, signal quality, architecture, workflows, and cost
- Drive tool rationalization strategy (Strategic / Tactical / Reduce / Replace / Integrate)
- Design target-state observability architecture, including:
- Telemetry model (logs, metrics, traces, events)
- Service identity and ownership model
- Correlation and enrichment patterns
- SLO-driven alerting strategy
- Define AI/AIOps integration strategy:
- Signal correlation and deduplication
- Intelligent alert routing
- Incident summarization and RCA acceleration
- Establish integration patterns with ITSM and communication platforms
- Own engineering blueprint / playbook for day-one observability and retrofit
- Lead creation and review of all deliverables:
- Assessment report, decision pack, architecture, standards, blueprint
- Present findings and recommendations to executive stakeholders
Technical Skills
- Deep experience with:
- Dynatrace (APM, tracing)
- Azure Monitor & Application Insights
- Azure Log Analytics (KQL, ingestion, cost management)
- LogicMonitor / ManageEngine (infra monitoring)
- ActiveBatch (scheduler monitoring)
- SQL Sentry (database monitoring)
- Strong understanding of Azure cloud-native observability ecosystem
- Experience integrating observability with ITSM (ServiceNow or equivalent) and notification platforms
Industry & Transformation Skills
- Observability architecture across App + Data + Infra domains
- Multi-tool rationalization and consolidation strategy
- SLI/SLO-based monitoring and alert design
- Service-centric observability and dependency modeling
- AI/AIOps strategy and implementation patterns
- Strong executive communication and consulting mindset
Expectations / Success Criteria
- Deliver decision-ready outputs, not just analysis
- Define clear tool roles and rationalization paths
- Provide a practical, implementable target-state architecture
- Ensure outputs are scalable, governed, and reusable
- Drive confidence with stakeholders across technical and business team
Roles & Responsibilities
Observability Principal Architect
Purpose
Lead the observability assessment and define a unified, AI-enabled, service-centric target-state architecture and transformation roadmap.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end engagement including stakeholder alignment, workshops, and governance
- Define and execute assessment framework across:
- Application, Data/Batch, and Infrastructure layers
- Coverage, signal quality, architecture, workflows, and cost
- Drive tool rationalization strategy (Strategic / Tactical / Reduce / Replace / Integrate)
- Design target-state observability architecture, including:
- Telemetry model (logs, metrics, traces, events)
- Service identity and ownership model
- Correlation and enrichment patterns
- SLO-driven alerting strategy
- Define AI/AIOps integration strategy:
- Signal correlation and deduplication
- Intelligent alert routing
- Incident summarization and RCA acceleration
- Establish integration patterns with ITSM and communication platforms
- Own engineering blueprint / playbook for day-one observability and retrofit
- Lead creation and review of all deliverables:
- Assessment report, decision pack, architecture, standards, blueprint
- Present findings and recommendations to executive stakeholders
Technical Skills
- Deep experience with:
- Dynatrace (APM, tracing)
- Azure Monitor & Application Insights
- Azure Log Analytics (KQL, ingestion, cost management)
- LogicMonitor / ManageEngine (infra monitoring)
- ActiveBatch (scheduler monitoring)
- SQL Sentry (database monitoring)
- Strong understanding of Azure cloud-native observability ecosystem
- Experience integrating observability with ITSM (ServiceNow or equivalent) and notification platforms
Industry & Transformation Skills
- Observability architecture across App + Data + Infra domains
- Multi-tool rationalization and consolidation strategy
- SLI/SLO-based monitoring and alert design
- Service-centric observability and dependency modeling
- AI/AIOps strategy and implementation patterns
- Strong executive communication and consulting mindset
Expectations / Success Criteria
- Deliver decision-ready outputs, not just analysis
- Define clear tool roles and rationalization paths
- Provide a practical, implementable target-state architecture
- Ensure outputs are scalable, governed, and reusable
- Drive confidence with stakeholders across technical and business team
Skills To Be Evaluated On
Architecture,Technical Architecture, traces) OpenTelemetry framework design APM & Cloud monitoring platforms expertise Data pipeline observability ITSM integration & event correlation AIOps & anomaly detection Kubernetes & microservices monitoring Alert optimization & noise reduction SLI/SLO framework definition Integration architecture & governance standards, traces), Integration architecture & governance standards