Remote Senior Observability Architect & SRE Leader

Ensono; Olympia (WA); Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited Paid Days Off

Three health plan options

401k with company match

Dental, vision, disability, life, and

Fertility coverage and family-forming

Paid parental leave

Education reimbursement

Sabbatical leave

Wellness program

Flexible work schedule

Job summary

Ensono is seeking an Expert Observability Engineer to lead enterprise observability, SRE, and telemetry initiatives across hybrid cloud, Kubernetes, and legacy environments. You will design scalable architectures, drive FOAK implementations, and lead 24x7 operations readiness with a focus on reliability and automation.

Responsibilities include defining standards for telemetry pipelines, incident response, and platform automation, with emphasis on RBAC, TLS, and security best practices.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of total IT experience
• 5–7 years serving 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 and time-series data stores
• Experience leading FOAK rollouts and complex vendor/operations transitions (KT)

Responsibilities

• Architect and govern a unified observability framework across metrics, logs, traces, and events.
• Lead FOAK implementations and translate new observability tech into secure, repeatable patterns.
• Define enterprise telemetry standards and data retention, high-cardinality controls, and cost management.
• Define and govern SLIs/SLOs and lead major incident war rooms with RCA.
• Drive Observability-as-Code and automation for deployment, configuration, and self-healing workflows.

Skills

FOAK implementations

SRE practices

Observability tooling

Kubernetes orchestration

Tools

IBM Instana

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Telegraf

InfluxDB

SolarWinds

Netcool

Elastic/Splunk

Kubernetes

Docker

OpenShift

AWS

Azure

GCP

Linux

Windows Server

VMware

Citrix VDI

load balancers

Ansible

Terraform

Python

Bash

Webhooks

CI/CD

ServiceNow

ITIL 4

Job description

Ensono is seeking an Expert Observability Engineer to lead enterprise observability, SRE, and telemetry initiatives across hybrid cloud, Kubernetes, and legacy environments. You will design scalable architectures, drive FOAK implementations, and lead 24x7 operations readiness with a focus on reliability and automation.

Responsibilities include defining standards for telemetry pipelines, incident response, and platform automation, with emphasis on RBAC, TLS, and security best practices.