Remote Senior Observability Architect & Automation Expert

Ensono; Salt Lake City (UT); Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited Paid Days Off

401k with company match

Education Reimbursement

Sabbatical leave

Wellness program

Flexible work schedule

Job summary

Ensono seeks an Expert Observability Engineer to lead enterprise observability, APM, and telemetry initiatives. You will architect scalable, automated solutions across hybrid cloud, Kubernetes, and legacy environments, elevating service reliability and driving FOAK implementations.

You will define standards, lead incident response, and mentor global teams while integrating observability with ITSM, CI/CD, and state-of-the-art tooling.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of total IT experience.
• 5–7 years as Lead Architect, SRE, or Principal Observability Engineer in a large enterprise.
• Proven track record migrating to proactive observability platforms.
• Hands-on experience building scalable telemetry pipelines.
• Experience leading FOAK rollouts and vendor transitions.

Responsibilities

• Architect and govern a unified observability framework across metrics, logs, traces, and events.
• Lead FOAK implementations and translate new tech into production-ready patterns.
• Define telemetry pipelines, data retention, high-cardinality controls, and cost management.
• Define SLIs/SLOs and lead incident war rooms with RCA.
• Drive Observability-as-Code and automation for monitoring agents and collectors.

Skills

IT experience

Lead Architect

Observability

FOAK rollouts

Vendor transitions

Tools

IBM Instana

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Telegraf

InfluxDB

Prometheus

Kubernetes

Docker

OpenShift

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Ensono seeks an Expert Observability Engineer to lead enterprise observability, APM, and telemetry initiatives. You will architect scalable, automated solutions across hybrid cloud, Kubernetes, and legacy environments, elevating service reliability and driving FOAK implementations.

You will define standards, lead incident response, and mentor global teams while integrating observability with ITSM, CI/CD, and state-of-the-art tooling.