Job Title: Victoria Metrics Architect / Observability Architect Victoria Metrics
Location: Remote
Job Summary Seeking an experienced Victoria Metrics Architect / Observability Architect to lead the design, governance, and delivery of enterprise observability platforms. The role requires deep expertise in Victoria Metrics, observability architecture, security, Kubernetes/OpenShift, GitOps, and large-scale platform transformation initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as the architecture authority for observability and monitoring platforms.
- Design scalable Victoria Metrics environments, including federation, resiliency, and multi-cluster architectures.
- Define observability standards, SLI/SLO frameworks, alerting strategies, and metric governance models.
- Produce architecture artifacts including HLDs, LLDs, ADRs, interface contracts, and sequence diagrams.
- Lead security, governance, and architecture review activities.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, and executive stakeholders to drive platform strategy and delivery.
Required Skills
- Expert hands-on experience with Victoria Metrics (VM Cluster, vmagent, VMAuth, VMAlert, MetricsQL).
- Production experience managing high-cardinality workloads and multi-tenant environments.
- Expert-level observability expertise with Prometheus, Grafana, logging, tracing, SLI/SLO, and alerting frameworks.
- Strong architecture leadership with ADR governance and enterprise-scale platform design.
- Expertise in Zero Trust architecture, HashiCorp Vault, PKI, OIDC, OAuth2, and certificate lifecycle management.
- Kubernetes and OpenShift administration, troubleshooting, and upgrade management.
- GitOps delivery using ArgoCD or FluxCD, Kustomize, and GitLab CI/CD.
- Kubernetes networking, NetworkPolicy, CoreDNS, MetalLB (BGP), and OVN-Kubernetes.
- Experience designing multi-cluster and hybrid platform architectures.
- Telecommunications observability experience, including FCAPS frameworks and multi-vendor telemetry integration.
- Agile program delivery, backlog refinement, architecture governance, and stakeholder management.
Preferred Skills
- Principal, Staff Architect, or equivalent architecture leadership experience.
- Director-level technology leadership experience.
- Cloud Center of Excellence leadership experience.
- Experience supporting Tier-1 carriers, MVNOs, or large-scale telecommunications operators.
- Experience with Nokia, Ericsson, or similar telecommunications ecosystems.
Qualifications
- Proven experience operating Victoria Metrics in production environments.
- Demonstrated success building and governing enterprise observability platforms.
- Strong expertise in security architecture and identity federation.
- Experience with OpenShift, Kubernetes, and GitOps operating models.
- Ability to communicate architectural decisions to both technical and executive audiences.
- Strong leadership, governance, and enterprise transformation experience.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, citizenship status, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
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