Observability Lead / Architect with Grafana

We would need a Cloud Architect who has very strong experience in Observability, Grafana and Automation experience (Python Scripting/Shell), Kubernetes, AWS.

While our key skill is Grafana, however if we are unable to find someone with Grafana, please check if we can get strong Observability candidates with strong exp in Prometheus.

This is a 100% onsite role, so we do not have any flexibility for remote.

Role: Observability Lead / Architect with Grafana

Location: Warren, NJ 07059 (100% onsite – No flexibility)

Must have:

1. Grafana stack experience - metrics, traces, logs, Alloy agent experience, OTelCollector experience, exporters for different open source components, application metrics exporting
2. Troubleshooting in Linux environment.
3. Programming - Python or equivalent language
4. Automation scripting - Shell scripts
5. AWS Cloud experience
6. Working with Kubernetes applications (mid-level experience), helm charts

Good to have:

1. Other Observability platforms experience (Splunk etc.)
2. DevOps - Infra
3. Cloud Operations
4. Terraform
5. CICD with Jenkins

Expertise:

• Architecture & Solutioning
• AWS and Google Cloud infrastructure Services.
• Grafana and Observability as a Service.
• Platform Services and Web Applications monitoring.
• DevOps Expert Level.
• Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins and Kubernetes Services.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Spearhead and align technical and business discussions concerning future architectural direction across the product portfolio or product line.
• Define the solution architecture for Application Design and Integration design, incorporating security, performance, and scalability.
• Analyze the current state and design a roadmap and implementation plan for the future state, maintaining a cohesive architectural perspective.
• Design major aspects of the application architecture, including middleware and infrastructure components.
• Collect and analyze data to develop architectural requirements at the project level.
• Conceptualize technical solutions and select technology options based on solution requirements.
• Produce design documentation such as HLD, LLD, TAD, TDD, etc., as needed.
• Complete architectural deliverables for backlog items to prepare them for engineering.
• Participate in the enterprise architecture domain governance model.
• Contribute to the development of software and data delivery platforms with reusable and orchestratable components.
• Research and assess emerging technology, industry, and market trends to support project development and operational activities.
• Serve as the Architectural SME for the scrum team and review technical design.
• Promote the reuse of ideas, components, and proven patterns.