Monitoring and Observability Architect

Job Title: Monitoring and Observability Architect

Location: Raritan, NJ 08869 (Onsite)

Contract

Role Overview

• We are seeking an experienced Monitoring and Observability Architect to design, implement, and optimize enterprise-wide observability solutions across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.
• This role is responsible for defining monitoring strategies, improving system reliability, and enabling proactive incident detection through metrics, logs, and traces.
• The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with architectural vision to build scalable, secure, and resilient observability platforms that support modern DevOps and SRE practices.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Strategy

• Define enterprise observability architecture aligned with business and IT objectives.
• Design monitoring frameworks for applications, infrastructure, networks, and cloud-native platforms.
• Establish standards, governance, and best practices for monitoring and alerting.

Implementation & Engineering

• Architect and deploy tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, ELK, New Relic, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, etc.
• Implement distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, Zipkin).
• Design centralized logging and log aggregation solutions.
• Enable APM, RUM, synthetic monitoring, and infrastructure monitoring.

Cloud & DevOps Integration

• Integrate observability into CI/CD pipelines.
• Support Kubernetes and container observability.
• Enable Infrastructure-as-Code monitoring automation (Terraform, ARM, CloudFormation).
• Collaborate with SRE and DevOps teams to enhance reliability and performance.

Reliability & Incident Management

• Define SLI/SLO/SLAs and error budgets.
• Develop intelligent alerting strategies to reduce noise.
• Enable root cause analysis and performance optimization.
• Support major incident investigations.

Security & Compliance

• Ensure monitoring solutions meet security and compliance requirements.
• Implement role-based access control (RBAC) and secure data handling.

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Partner with customer, engineering, operations, security, and business teams.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship.
• Present architecture designs to leadership and governance boards.