Observability Lead / Architect Location: Dallas, TX 2-3 days per week at office 12 Months Contract Looking for Local OR Nearby consultants Observability Architect – New Relic | Splunk | CloudWatch | Kibana | APM | Monitoring Solutions Experience Required: 8+ Years Key Responsibilities: • Design and implement end-to-end observability strategies covering metrics, logs, traces, and user experience monitoring • Architect custom monitoring frameworks tailored to specific business applications and infrastructure landscapes • Implement and manage observability platforms including New Relic, Splunk, AWS CloudWatch, and Kibana • Develop and maintain APM scripts, synthetic monitors, custom dashboards, and alerting mechanisms • Integrate observability tools with CI/CD pipelines for proactive issue detection and faster MTTR • Collaborate with application, infrastructure, DevOps, and security teams to ensure observability coverage across systems • Conduct root cause analysis using correlation across metrics, logs, and traces • Provide technical leadership in observability best practices, architecture reviews, and roadmap planning • Define and enforce standards for SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs across environments • Mentor and guide engineering teams in the effective use of observability tools Key Skills & Technologies: Monitoring & APM Tools: Deep experience with New Relic (including APM, infrastructure, synthetics, custom instrumentation) • Strong proficiency in Splunk (querying, dashboards, alerts, ingestion pipeline design) • Hands-on with AWS CloudWatch (metrics, logs, alarms, insights) • Working knowledge of Kibana and Elastic Stack (ELK) Scripting & Customization: • Experience in APM scripting, custom instrumentation (using Java, Python, or Node.js agents) • Ability to create synthetic monitors, custom event generators, and automated dashboards • Familiarity with Terraform, CloudFormation, or scripting languages (Shell, Python) for observability automation Architecture & Integration: • Expertise in designing observability frameworks for cloud-native (AWS/GCP/Azure) and hybrid environments • Understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architectures • Ability to integrate observability platforms with DevOps pipelines, incident response, and ITSM tools Kindly reply with your resume to Email- jnehru@nam-it.com