Observability Lead / Architect

  • Dallas, TX
  • Posted 14 hours ago | Updated 14 hours ago

Overview

On Site
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - W2
Contract - 12

Skills

kibana
Splunk
APM
cloudwatch
New Relic

Job Details

Job Title: Observability Lead / Architect

Location: Dallas, TX 2-3 days per week at office

Observability Architect New Relic | Splunk | CloudWatch | Kibana | APM | Monitoring Solutions

Experience Required: 8+ Years

Key Responsibilities:

Design and implement end-to-end observability strategies covering metrics, logs, traces, and user experience monitoring

Architect custom monitoring frameworks tailored to specific business applications and infrastructure landscapes

Implement and manage observability platforms including New Relic, Splunk, AWS CloudWatch, and Kibana

Develop and maintain APM scripts, synthetic monitors, custom dashboards, and alerting mechanisms

Integrate observability tools with CI/CD pipelines for proactive issue detection and faster MTTR

Collaborate with application, infrastructure, DevOps, and security teams to ensure observability coverage across systems

Conduct root cause analysis using correlation across metrics, logs, and traces

Provide technical leadership in observability best practices, architecture reviews, and roadmap planning

Define and enforce standards for SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs across environments

Mentor and guide engineering teams in the effective use of observability tools

Key Skills & Technologies:

Monitoring & APM Tools:

Deep experience with New Relic (including APM, infrastructure, synthetics, custom instrumentation)

Strong proficiency in Splunk (querying, dashboards, alerts, ingestion pipeline design)

Hands-on with AWS CloudWatch (metrics, logs, alarms, insights)

Working knowledge of Kibana and Elastic Stack (ELK)

Scripting & Customization:

Experience in APM scripting, custom instrumentation (using Java, Python, or Node.js agents)

Ability to create synthetic monitors, custom event generators, and automated dashboards

Familiarity with Terraform, CloudFormation, or scripting languages (Shell, Python) for observability automation

Architecture & Integration:

Expertise in designing observability frameworks for cloud-native (AWS/Google Cloud Platform/Azure) and hybrid environments

Understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architectures

Ability to integrate observability platforms with DevOps pipelines, incident response, and ITSM tools

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