Lead Observability Platform Architect

Booz Allen Hamilton; McLean (VA); Hybrid; USD 87,000 - 198,000; Full time

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking an Observability Platform Architect to set the technical direction for enterprise monitoring across portfolios and accredited environments. You will own instrumentation strategy, automate scale, and define agentic detection and remediation while expanding into Dynatrace, OpenTelemetry, and agentic operations.

The role combines hands-on engineering with oversight, requiring ownership of the platform, its standards, and rigorous validation of automation across

Qualifications

• 8+ years of engineering experience.
• 3+ years maintaining responsibility for an enterprise observability or APM platform, including its architecture, deployment, upgrades, standards, and cost.
• Experience with enterprise observability platforms (Dynatrace, Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, Prometheus, Elastic) including writing/optimizing complex queries.
• Experience replacing recurring manual platform work with production automation and agentic operations, ML in production, fraud or risk scoring, or security detection.
• Experience with OpenTelemetry collectors, instrumentation, semantic conventions, and vendor-neutral instrumentation.
• Experience with IaC and CI/CD (Terraform, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab) and deploying agents/collectors at scale across Windows/Linux/Kubernetes/cloud infra

Responsibilities

• Architect and build the observability platform across all accredited environments.
• Drive OpenTelemetry adoption hands-on, including collector configuration and instrumentation rollout.
• Automate the platform itself: service onboarding, agent deployment, tagging, dashboards, alert provisioning, and access management.
• Design and deploy agentic detection, triage, and remediation, defining what an agent may do unattended.
• Own the platform's AI capability end to end, including what is enabled and how decisions are validated.
• Build the entity model, dashboards, and SLOs used by leadership.

Skills

8+ years of experience

Observability platform experience

OpenTelemetry

Infrastructure as code/CI/CD

Code writing/shipping capabilities

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS, Information Systems, or Engineering

Tools

Dynatrace

Datadog

New Relic

Grafana

Prometheus

Elastic

Job description

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking an Observability Platform Architect to set the technical direction for enterprise monitoring across portfolios and accredited environments. You will own instrumentation strategy, automate scale, and define agentic detection and remediation while expanding into Dynatrace, OpenTelemetry, and agentic operations.

The role combines hands-on engineering with oversight, requiring ownership of the platform, its standards, and rigorous validation of automation across