Lead Observability Architect

Simelabs - An Astek Company; Ernakulam; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Infopark in India seeks a Lead Observability Architect with 10+ years of experience in observability, DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering. You will design enterprise observability solutions using Grafana Stack, OpenTelemetry, and cloud-native technologies, while guiding client-facing projects and technical strategy.

You will lead architecture discussions, define best practices for logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, and alerts, and mentor teams to ensure reliability and scalable performance

Qualifications

• 10+ years in observability, DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering.
• Strong expertise in Grafana ecosystem, OpenTelemetry, and cloud-native tech.
• Excellent client-facing and technical leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, design, and implementation of scalable observability solutions.
• Define standards for logs, metrics, traces, monitoring, and alerting.
• Drive adoption of Grafana technologies and OpenTelemetry for instrumentation.
• Create advanced dashboards and AI-assisted anomaly detection plans.
• Mentor engineering teams and provide architecture reviews.

Skills

Grafana ecosystem

OpenTelemetry

Monitoring & logging

Distributed tracing

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Kubernetes & Docker

Python & shell scripting

Terraform/OpenTofu

Client-facing leadership

Observability architecture

Tools

Grafana Stack (Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Mimir, Alloy)

ELK Stack

Prometheus/OpenTelemetry

Splunk

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS / Azure / GCP

Linux

Git

Python

Terraform / OpenTofu

Shell scripting

Job description

Lead Observability Architect

Experience: 10+ years

We are looking for a Lead Observability Architect with 10+ years of experience in Observability, DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering to design and implement enterprise‑grade observability solutions for clients. The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in the Grafana ecosystem, OpenTelemetry, monitoring, logging, distributed tracing, and cloud‑native technologies, along with excellent client‑facing and technical leadership skills.

Required Skills

• Hands‑on experience designing and implementing enterprise observability platforms using Grafana Stack (Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Mimir, Alloy), ELK Stack, Prometheus/OpenTelemetry, or Splunk.


• Strong expertise in logs, metrics, distributed tracing, application instrumentation, dashboards, alerting, and advanced visualisations.


• Proven experience in observability architecture, solution design, platform implementation, and performance optimisation.


• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.


• Experience analysing performance, availability, capacity, and reliability issues, including root cause analysis and incident resolution.


• Knowledge of Linux, Git, Python, Terraform/OpenTofu, and shell scripting.


• Experience integrating AI capabilities into observability platforms is an advantage.


• Ability to lead technical discussions with clients, define observability best practices, mentor engineering teams, and drive implementation initiatives.


• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of scalable observability solutions tailored to client requirements.


• Define observability strategies and standards across logs, metrics, traces, monitoring, and alerting.


• Lead the adoption of Grafana ecosystem technologies and OpenTelemetry for application instrumentation and distributed tracing.


• Design advanced dashboards, alerts, and visualisations to improve system visibility and reliability.


• Identify opportunities to integrate AI‑driven capabilities for anomaly detection, performance analysis, and incident management.


• Collaborate with development, DevOps, SRE, and platform engineering teams to improve system performance and availability.


• Act as the technical lead and client‑facing architect, providing technical guidance, solution recommendations, and architecture reviews.


• Establish best practices, document technical standards, and mentor teams in observability implementation and operations.

Relevant certifications in OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, or Splunk are an added advantage.