Observability Architect

We are looking for Observability Architect for our client in Portsmouth, NH

Job Title: Observability Architect

Job Location: Portsmouth, NH

Job Type: Contract

Job Overview:

Requirement/Must Have:

• 10+ years of experience in Enterprise Monitoring and Observability.
• 6 7+ years of hands-on Datadog implementation and architecture experience.
• Experience leading enterprise observability transformation programs.

Responsibilities:

• Define and own enterprise observability architecture, standards, and governance.
• Lead monitoring and observability assessments to identify gaps and improvement opportunities.
• Design and implement scalable Datadog monitoring solutions across infrastructure, applications, databases, middleware, networks, storage, backup, cloud, and collaboration platforms.
• Develop monitoring, alerting, logging, dashboarding, and reporting frameworks.
• Architect and implement Datadog capabilities including Infrastructure Monitoring, APM, Logs, Synthetic Monitoring, RUM, NPM, DBM, and Distributed Tracing.
• Drive observability adoption across hybrid cloud and enterprise platforms.
• Integrate observability solutions with ITSM, AIOps, automation, and AI/GenAI platforms.
• Develop predictive monitoring, anomaly detection, and operational intelligence use cases.
• Optimize monitoring coverage, alert quality, platform performance, and observability costs.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and best practices to engineering and operations teams.

Skills:

• Datadog Infrastructure Monitoring.
• Application Performance Monitoring (APM).
• Log Management.
• Distributed Tracing.
• Database Monitoring (DBM).
• Network Performance Monitoring (NPM).
• Real User Monitoring (RUM).
• Synthetic Monitoring.
• Service Catalog & Service Mapping.
• SLO/SLI Design and Implementation.
• OpenTelemetry.
• AWS and Azure Cloud.
• Kubernetes and Container Monitoring.
• Linux, Windows, and Enterprise Infrastructure Monitoring.
• Database, Middleware, Storage, Backup, and Network Monitoring.
• Client .
• ServiceNow.
• AIOps Platforms.
• Python, PowerShell, Terraform, or Ansible.
• API-based Integrations.