Senior Full Stack Observability EngineerArchitect

Job Title: Senior Full Stack Observability Engineer/Architect Catalyst Center ThousandEyes Grafana Automation

Summary

We are seeking a senior engineer/architect to lead the design implementation and optimization of full stack observability solutions across large-scale enterprise environments. This role will drive architecture and automation for network application and infrastructure monitoring leveraging platforms such as Catalyst Center ThousandEyes Grafana and custom automation frameworks. The ideal candidate demonstrates deep hands-on expertise in observability automation and performance analytics with a proven ability to deliver scalable solutions and mentor engineering teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end observability architecture: Design and implement integrated monitoring solutions for network application and infrastructure domains ensuring visibility reliability and actionable insights.
• Lead Catalyst Center driven automation: Develop templates workflows and closed-loop operations for network assurance leveraging Catalyst Center APIs and automation tools.
• ThousandEyes deployment and analytics: Architect and operationalize ThousandEyes for synthetic and real-user monitoring path visualization and outage detection across distributed environments.
• Grafana dashboarding and analytics: Build and maintain Grafana dashboards for real-time and historical performance analytics integrating diverse data sources (SNMP API logs metrics).
• Automation and integration: Develop and maintain automation scripts and frameworks (Python Ansible Terraform) for observability alerting and remediation workflows.
• Performance and reliability engineering: Define SLOs/SLIs implement proactive monitoring and drive root-cause analysis for critical incidents.
• Mentor and uplift engineering teams: Conduct design reviews develop standards and runbooks and deliver enablement sessions for operations and field engineers.
• Stakeholder leadership: Collaborate with security cloud application and operations teams to translate business outcomes into technical architectures and measurable milestones.
• Documentation & governance: Produce HLD/LLD as-builts standards compliance artifacts and reusable templates for observability and automation.

Required Qualifications (Must-Have)

• 10 years experience in enterprise networking systems or cloud engineering including 3 5 years leading observability and automation initiatives at scale.
• Proven exceptional hands-on skills with Catalyst Center ThousandEyes and Grafana for monitoring analytics and automation.
• Deep expertise in network and application performance monitoring synthetic and real-user analytics and incident response.
• Strong experience with automation frameworks (Python Ansible Terraform) and API integrations.
• Demonstrated success leading complex multi-phase deployments and mentoring senior engineers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certifications in observability automation or cloud platforms (e.g. Cisco Certified Specialist Observability AWS/Azure monitoring).
• Experience with cloud networking hybrid connectivity and integration of DNS/DHCP/IPAM data sources.
• Familiarity with Zero Trust NAC posture and security monitoring.
• Experience with data center and campus interconnect monitoring (ACI concepts beneficial but not required).

Work Style & Travel

• Must be able to work onsite at client locations as required.
• Off-hours change windows may be needed for critical migrations and incident response.