Monitoring and Observability Architect

Exavalu

Monitoring & Observability Architect designing scalable observability platforms for cloud-native systems. Join Exavalu, a consulting firm specializing in Digital Transformation for various industries.

Posted 6/25/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsDockerGoGrafanaKubernetesMicroservicesPrometheusPythonSplunkTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, implement, and operate scalable observability platforms to provide metrics, logs, traces, and alerts for cloud-native, distributed systems.
Build and maintain Observability pipelines and dashboards (metrics, logs, traces).
Define and track SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs; create actionable alerts.
Instrument apps/infrastructure with OpenTelemetry and vendor SDKs.
Integrate and operate tools (Splunk, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/EFK, Datadog, New Relic).
Automate deployments with CI/CD and IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation).
Collaborate with dev, SRE, and platform teams; produce runbooks and post-incident reports.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Required Hands-on with Splunk at least two monitoring tools (Splunk, Prometheus & Grafana, ELK/EFK, Datadog, New Relic).
Strong scripting/programming (Python, Go, or Bash).
Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, microservices, and distributed systems.
Experience defining SLOs/SLIs/SLAs.
Familiar with CI/CD and IaC; experience on AWS.
Preferred OpenTelemetry and distributed tracing experience.
Service mesh telemetry (Istio/Linkerd).
Experience in regulated environments (e.g., FDA) and telemetry cost/retention optimization.
Soft skills Clear communicator, collaborative, proactive, and good at mentoring.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Diversity Inclusion: At Exavalu, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce.
We welcome applications for employment from all qualified candidates, regardless of race, color, gender, national or ethnic origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other status protected by applicable law.
We nurture a culture that embraces all individuals and promotes diverse perspectives, where you can make an impact and grow your career.
Exavalu also promotes flexibility depending on the needs of employees, customers and the business.
We also have a welcome back program to help people get back to the mainstream after a long break due to health or family reasons.

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonGoBashKubernetesDockermicroservicesSLOsSLIsSLAsOpenTelemetry

Soft Skills

clear communicatorcollaborativeproactivementoring