Observability Architect - Datadog / Prometheus

Description :

We are seeking a seasoned Observability Architect to define and lead our end-to-end observability strategy across highly distributed, cloud-native, and hybrid environments.

This role requires a visionary leader with deep hands-on experience in New Relic and a strong working knowledge of other modern observability platforms like Datadog, Prometheus / Grafana, Splunk, OpenTelemetry, and more. You will design scalable, resilient, and intelligent observability solutions that empower engineering, SRE, and DevOps teams to proactively detect issues, optimize performance, and ensure system reliability. This is a senior leadership role with significant influence over platform architecture, monitoring practices, and cultural transformation across global teams.

Key Responsibilities :

• Architect and implement full-stack observability platforms, covering metrics, logs, traces, synthetics, real user monitoring (RUM), and business-level telemetry using New Relic and other tools like Datadog, Prometheus, ELK, or AppDynamics.
• Design and enforce observability standards and instrumentation guidelines for microservices, APIs, front-end applications, and legacy systems across hybrid cloud environments.
• Experience in OpenTelemetry adoption, ensuring vendor-neutral, portable observability implementations where appropriate.
• Build multi-tool dashboards, health scorecards, SLOs / SLIs, and integrated alerting systems tailored for engineering, operations, and executive consumption.
• Collaborate with engineering and DevOps teams to integrate observability into CI / CD pipelines, GitOps, and progressive delivery workflows.
• Partner with platform, cloud, and security teams to provide end-to-end visibility across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-prem systems.
• Lead root cause analysis, system-wide incident reviews, and reliability engineering initiatives to reduce MTTR and improve

MTBF.

(ref : hirist.tech)