Principal Architect Logging & Observability
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Job Summary
What You Will Be Doing
As a Principal Observability Engineer you will lead the vision strategy and engineering implementation of Observability at scale across Experians hybrid infrastructure and global product ecosystem. Responsibilities include:
Observability Platform Engineering
- Architect design and evolve Observability frameworks instrumentation standards and reusable libraries across compute microservices APIs and data platforms.
- Lead the transition to Observability as Code enabling Splunk Cribl Dynatrace and future tool configurations to be fully versioncontrolled automated and consumed via Terraform and CI/CD pipelines.
- Build advanced distributed tracing solutions using OpenTelemetry ensuring deep visibility across upstream and downstream systems.
Coding APIs & Automation
- Build highquality APIs SDKs and automation frameworks that standardize Observability onboarding for engineering teams.
- Develop and maintain an APIdriven orchestration layer that abstracts underlying Observability tooling.
- Enable engineering teams to instrument applications through reusable code modules templates and policydriven automation.
Tooling & Standards Deployment
- Evaluate adopt and deploy new Observability tooling dashboards/tiles (tiling exposure) and visualization standards using infrastructureascode pipelines and programmatic configuration.
- Lead tooling modernization initiatives for synthetic monitoring browser instrumentation APM logs and telemetry ingestion.
CrossFunctional Collaboration
- Work with platform SRE DevOps and product engineering teams to define build and mature endtoend monitoring standards.
- Influence architecture decisions to ensure Observability considerations are embedded early across services.
- Partner with Cloud Engineering & Operations leveraging practices from infrastructure selfservice programs
Leadership & Governance
- Define the Observability roadmap KPIs and success criteria for global adoption.
- Mentor senior engineers drive knowledge sharing and build a culture of proactive Observability excellence.
- Contribute to engineering governance through patterns blueprints guardrails and audit/compliance alignment.
What Your Background Looks Like
Technical Expertise
- 1015 years in largescale engineering organizations with deep Observability ownership.
- Advanced proficiency in at least one coding language (Python Go Java preferred).
- Proven experience building APIs and API frameworks that enable selfservice consumption.
- Strong handson in distributed tracing OpenTelemetry logs metrics events and telemetry flow management.
- Expertise with tools such as Dynatrace Splunk Cribl Prometheus Grafana Datadog etc.
- Strong IaC skills using Terraform Ansible; comfortable deploying full tooling ecosystems through CI/CD.
- 5 years of experience managing Observability in ecosystems with multiple upstream/downstream service dependencies.
- Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS GCP Azure) and hybrid architectures.
Architecture & Design
- Deep understanding of microservices event-driven patterns API gateways middleware and message queues.
- Experience designing Observability for complex globally distributed systems.
Soft Skills
- Communicate technical strategy to senior stakeholders.
- Passion for simplifying complex problems through automation.
- Lead initiatives and drive largescale adoption.
Nice to Have
- Experience implementing templated dashboards tiles and standardized visualization frameworks.
- Exposure to cost optimization data ingestion pipelines or AIdriven monitoring approaches.
Qualifications :
- 1015 years in largescale engineering organizations with deep Observability ownership.
Additional Information :
Our uniqueness is that we celebrate yours. Experians culture and people are important differentiators. We take our people agenda very seriously and focus on what matters; DEI work/life balance development authenticity collaboration wellness reward & recognition volunteering... the list goes on. Experians people first approach is award-winning; Worlds Best Workplaces 2024 (Fortune Top 25) Great Place To Work in 24 countries and Glassdoor Best Places to Work 2024 to name a few. Check out Experian Life on social or our Careers Site to understand why.
Experian is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. Innovation is an important part of Experians DNA and practices and our diverse workforce drives our success. Everyone can succeed at Experian and bring their whole self to work irrespective of their gender ethnicity religion colour sexuality physical ability or age. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation please let us know at the earliest opportunity.
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Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Key Skills
- Kubernetes
- S3
- Google Cloud Platform
- Cassandra
- System Architecture
- Redshift
- AWS
- Cloud Architecture
- NoSQL
- UML
- Kafka
- Distributed Systems
About Company
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