Observability Architect

Overview

On Site
Depends on Experience
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - W2

Skills

OpenTelemetry
Datadog
Splunk
Elastic
Dynatrace
Grafana
Prometheus
New Relic
Python Scripting

Job Details

Required Skills & Experience

  • 12+ years overall IT experience with 5+ years in Observability / SRE / APM engineering.

  • Strong hands-on experience with at least one leading observability platform:

    • Datadog, Splunk, Elastic (ELK), Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus, New Relic, AppDynamics, etc.

  • Expertise in:

    • APM instrumentation, distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry), log aggregation, metrics pipelines.

    • Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, and cloud-native monitoring.

    • Python, Shell, PowerShell, or Go for automation and custom instrumentation.

  • Strong understanding of microservices, APIs, networking, performance engineering, and cloud architecture.

  • Experience designing SLO/SLI frameworks and implementing error budgets.

  • Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Certifications in AWS/Azure/Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, or SRE.

  • Experience with AIOps platforms for event correlation and anomaly detection.

  • Experience deploying OpenTelemetry collectors and custom exporting pipelines.

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