Enterprise Observability Architect

Job Description

We are seeking a visionary and influential technical leader to join as an Enterprise Observability Architect. In this role you will be the chief architect and evangelist for our company-wide observability strategy. Your mission is to define and drive the adoption of a unified full-stack observability framework that empowers our product teams to build and operate highly reliable performant and resilient services.

This is not just a technical role; it is a strategic one. You will work across organizational boundaries from engineering teams to senior leadership to champion a culture of operational excellence. You will be responsible for rationalizing our tooling landscape eliminating redundancy and designing a cohesive self-service observability platform that is easy to consume. If you are passionate about turning complex technical concepts into clear business value and leading large-scale change this is your opportunity to make a lasting impact.

What Youll Do

• Create Strategy: Create document and champion a unified long-term observability strategy for the entire company covering all telemetry types like metrics traces logs profiles and more

• Architect the Future:Design a cohesive full-stack observability solution using best-in-class tools and practices. Ensure our architecture promotes a product-oriented approach with a strong focus on self-service capabilities

• Drive Standardization and Consolidation:Actively identify and help decommission redundant or overlapping tools driving the organization towards a standardized cost-effective and easy-to-manage observability service

• Join forces with SRE team:Partner with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team promote their principles such as defining measuring and managing Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets and how critical Observability for them

• Evangelize and Educate:Clearly and persuasively communicate complex observability topics benefits and strategic decisions to senior leadership and diverse stakeholders across IT and business domains

• Lead by Influence:Act as the senior technical expert and thought leader in the observability space. Mentor engineers and guide teams in implementing best practices for instrumentation (OpenTelemetry) monitoring and incident analysis using AIOps

• Stay on the Cutting Edge:Continuously research industry trends emerging technologies (like eBPF OpenTelemetry) and best practices to ensure our observability strategy remains modern and effective

Must-Have Skills & Experience

• Extensive Technical Experience:10 years in Observability software engineering SRE or platform engineering with a proven track record of architecting and implementing large-scale technical solutions

• Deep Observability Expertise:Subject matter expert on Observability practices and collection of all types of telemetry. SME for the tools that support them (e.g. Grafana Prometheus Dynatrace BigPanda xMatters or others)

• Strategic Leadership:Demonstrable experience creating and executing a technical strategy across multiple teams or an entire organization

• SRE and SLO Mastery:Deep practical knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering principles with hands-on experience defining implementing and managing SLOs and error budgets

• OpenTelemetry Proficiency:Strong understanding and practical experience with the OpenTelemetry standard for instrumentation and telemetry collection

• Multi-Cloud Experience:Experience designing solutions that operate across multiple cloud providers (AWS Azure GCP)

• Exceptional Communication & Influence:World-class ability to explain highly complex technical concepts to senior executives and non-technical audiences. Proven ability to lead by influence and drive consensus in a large organization

Nice-to-Have Skills & Experience

• Tool Rationalization:Experience leading projects to consolidate tooling and migrate teams to a centralized platform

• FinOps Knowledge:Understanding of cloud cost management principles and how they apply to observability data and tooling

• eBPF Knowledge:Familiarity with eBPF for advanced low-level system observability and performance analysis

• Product Mindset:Experience thinking about internal platforms as products with a focus on user experience self-service and clear documentation

Why Join Us

• Unmatched Impact:Define the technical direction for a critical capability across the entire company directly influencing the reliability of all our products

• Strategic Autonomy:Be the ultimate authority and thought leader in the observability domain with the freedom to shape our future

• Executive Visibility:Work directly with senior leadership to connect deep technical initiatives with strategic business outcomes

• Culture:Join a forward-thinking organization that invests in technical excellence and empowers its leaders to drive meaningful change

What we offer

• Exciting work in a great team global projects international environment

• Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally

• Hybrid working model flexible role pattern

• Pension and health insurance contributions

• Internal reward system plus referral program

• 5 weeks annual leave 5 sick days 15 days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually 40 paid hours annually for volunteering activities 12 weeks of parental contribution

• Cafeteria for tax free benefits according to your choice (meal vouchers Lítačka sport culture health travel etc.) Multisport Card

• Vodafone Raiffeisen Bank Foodora and other discount programs

• Up-to-date laptop and iPhone company car

• Parking in the garage for drivers or showers for bikers

• Competitive salary incentive pay and many more

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