Avance Consulting
Observability Architect
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This role is for an Observability Architect in McLean, Virginia, on a contract basis. Required skills include expertise in Dynatrace, APM, hybrid cloud environments, OpenTelemetry, and AIOps. Strong collaboration and analytical skills are essential for driving observability strategies.
🌎 - Country
United States
💱 - Currency
$ USD
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💰 - Day rate
Unknown
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🗓️ - Date
November 6, 2025
🕒 - Duration
Unknown
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🏝️ - Location
On-site
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📄 - Contract
Unknown
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🔒 - Security
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
McLean, VA
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#Azure #Leadership #Strategy #GCP (Google Cloud Platform) #DevOps #AI (Artificial Intelligence) #AWS (Amazon Web Services) #Monitoring #Microservices #Dynatrace #Automation #Anomaly Detection #Cloud #Observability #Databases
Role description
Title: Observability Architect
Location: McLean, Virginia
Contract: Contract
Job Description
Role Overview:
We are seeking an experienced Observability Architect with deep expertise in Dynatrace to lead the design, implementation, and scaling of end-to-end observability solutions across enterprise applications, infrastructure, and cloud environments. This role is pivotal in driving proactive monitoring strategies, enabling AIOps/self-healing capabilities, and delivering actionable insights to enhance system availability, performance, and reliability.
Key Responsibilities:
· Define and own the observability strategy using Dynatrace as the core platform, integrating with existing IT monitoring ecosystems.
· Architect and implement full-stack monitoring across applications, microservices, APIs, databases, infrastructure, and hybrid multi-cloud workloads.
· Design service flow mapping, distributed tracing, real-user monitoring (RUM), and synthetic monitoring frameworks.
· Enable AI-driven root cause analysis (RCA), anomaly detection, and self-healing automation.
· Collaborate with enterprise architects, DevOps, SREs, and application teams to embed observability into CI/CD pipelines.
· Drive instrumentation best practices using OpenTelemetry (OTel) and other open standards.
· Establish dashboards, service-level objectives (SLOs), and KPIs aligned with business outcomes.
· Provide governance, roadmap planning, and technical leadership for observability adoption across the enterprise.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
· Proven experience in observability architecture and monitoring strategy design using Dynatrace as the core platform.
· Strong understanding of application performance monitoring (APM), infrastructure monitoring, and log analytics.
· Experience implementing observability across hybrid multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP, on-prem).
· Proficiency in OpenTelemetry (OTel) and integration with CI/CD pipelines.
· Knowledge of AIOps, automated RCA, and self-healing mechanisms.
· Experience designing SLOs, dashboards, and metrics frameworks for enterprise-scale systems.
· Excellent collaboration skills with cross-functional teams (DevOps, SRE, Architecture).
· Strong analytical mindset, problem-solving skills, and ability to translate technical insights into business outcomes.
Title: Observability Architect
Location: McLean, Virginia
Contract: Contract
Job Description
Role Overview:
We are seeking an experienced Observability Architect with deep expertise in Dynatrace to lead the design, implementation, and scaling of end-to-end observability solutions across enterprise applications, infrastructure, and cloud environments. This role is pivotal in driving proactive monitoring strategies, enabling AIOps/self-healing capabilities, and delivering actionable insights to enhance system availability, performance, and reliability.
Key Responsibilities:
· Define and own the observability strategy using Dynatrace as the core platform, integrating with existing IT monitoring ecosystems.
· Architect and implement full-stack monitoring across applications, microservices, APIs, databases, infrastructure, and hybrid multi-cloud workloads.
· Design service flow mapping, distributed tracing, real-user monitoring (RUM), and synthetic monitoring frameworks.
· Enable AI-driven root cause analysis (RCA), anomaly detection, and self-healing automation.
· Collaborate with enterprise architects, DevOps, SREs, and application teams to embed observability into CI/CD pipelines.
· Drive instrumentation best practices using OpenTelemetry (OTel) and other open standards.
· Establish dashboards, service-level objectives (SLOs), and KPIs aligned with business outcomes.
· Provide governance, roadmap planning, and technical leadership for observability adoption across the enterprise.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
· Proven experience in observability architecture and monitoring strategy design using Dynatrace as the core platform.
· Strong understanding of application performance monitoring (APM), infrastructure monitoring, and log analytics.
· Experience implementing observability across hybrid multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP, on-prem).
· Proficiency in OpenTelemetry (OTel) and integration with CI/CD pipelines.
· Knowledge of AIOps, automated RCA, and self-healing mechanisms.
· Experience designing SLOs, dashboards, and metrics frameworks for enterprise-scale systems.
· Excellent collaboration skills with cross-functional teams (DevOps, SRE, Architecture).
· Strong analytical mindset, problem-solving skills, and ability to translate technical insights into business outcomes.
