Observability Architect - McLean, VA

Overview

On Site
Depends on Experience
Contract - W2
Contract - 12 Month(s)

Skills

APM Architecture
Azure
AWS
GCP

Job Details

The following requirement is open with our client.
Title : Observability Architect
Location : McLean, VA (Onsite)
Duration : 6 Months
Visa Status : H1b/Transfer/OPT EAD/ EAD/s
Relevant Experience (in Yrs): 10 -12
Detailed Job Description:
We are seeking a highly skilled Observability Architect with strong expertise in Dynatrace and Cloud DevOps to design, implement, and optimize enterprise-grade monitoring and observability solutions. The ideal candidate will define observability strategies, enable proactive performance insights, and drive automation to ensure optimal application reliability and availability across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Job Responsibilities:
  • Define and lead the end-to-end observability strategy leveraging Dynatrace as the core platform.
  • Design and implement monitoring architectures for applications, APIs, microservices, databases, and infrastructure.
  • Architect and manage service flow mapping, distributed tracing, real-user monitoring (RUM), and synthetic monitoring frameworks.
  • Enable AI-driven root cause analysis (RCA), anomaly detection, and self-healing automation through Dynatrace and AIOps integrations.
  • Collaborate with DevOps, SRE, and application teams to embed observability practices into CI/CD pipelines.
  • Establish and maintain dashboards, SLIs, SLOs, and KPIs aligned with business objectives.
  • Ensure best practices for instrumentation of logs, metrics, and traces using OpenTelemetry and similar frameworks.
  • Provide governance and technical leadership for observability initiatives across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
  • Mentor teams on observability standards and influence observability maturity roadmaps.
Must-Have Skills:
  • 4 years in Observability Monitoring architecture.
  • Dynatrace (Observability / APM Architecture)
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform)
  • Strong understanding of application architectures microservices, containers (Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker), APIs, cloud-native apps.
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