Monitoring and Observability Architect : Raritan, NJ

Job Title: Monitoring and Observability Architect

Location: Raritan, NJ 08869

Mode: Contract - Onsite

We are seeking an experienced Monitoring and Observability Architect to design, implement, and optimize enterprise-wide observability solutions across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments. This role is responsible for defining monitoring strategies, improving system reliability, and enabling proactive incident detection through metrics, logs, and traces. The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with architectural vision to build scalable, secure, and resilient observability platforms that support modern Dev Ops and SRE practices.

• Define enterprise observability architecture aligned with business and IT objectives.
• Design monitoring frameworks for applications, infrastructure, networks, and cloud-native platforms.
• Establish standards, governance, and best practices for monitoring and alerting.

• Architect and deploy tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, ELK, New Relic, Dynatrace, App Dynamics, etc.
• Implement distributed tracing (Open Telemetry, Jaeger, Zipkin).
• Design centralized logging and log aggregation solutions.
• Enable APM, RUM, synthetic monitoring, and infrastructure monitoring.

• Integrate observability into CI/CD pipelines.
• Support Kubernetes and container observability.
• Enable Infrastructure-as-Code monitoring automation (Terraform, ARM, Cloud Formation).
• Collaborate with SRE and Dev Ops teams to enhance reliability and performance.

• Define SLI/SLO/SLAs and error budgets.
• Develop intelligent alerting strategies to reduce noise.
• Enable root cause analysis and performance optimization.
• Support major incident investigations.

• Ensure monitoring solutions meet security and compliance requirements.
• Implement role-based access control (RBAC) and secure data handling.

• Partner with customer, engineering, operations, security, and business teams.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship.
• Present architecture designs to leadership and governance boards.