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This role will ensure consistency, cost-effectiveness, and actionable insights from diverse telemetry sources spanning Data Center, Compute, Network, Storage, Kubernetes, HPC as a Service, Schedulers, and Applications. The architect will establish a taxonomy for observability data, implement tiered storage and retrieval strategies, and tailor insights for different consumer personas (finance, operations, executives, developers).\nResponsibilities:\nDefine/maintain a unified observability taxonomy across metrics, logs, traces; helping design a traceable observability platform.\nDesign and implement ingestion → storage → retrieval pipelines with automation for large-scale observability data with tiered retention (hot/warm/cold).\nArchitect observability across all infrastructure layers (DC, network, storage, compute, Kubernetes, HPC, apps) - with multi-tenancy.\nEstablish tech stack standards (e.g., VictoriaMetrics, Loki, Tempo, OpenTelemetry, Coralogix) for different observability signals.\nHelp build persona-oriented views for Finance, Operation, Executives, Developers, Platform etc.\nBuild and guide transparency around cost, observability and resiliency of the observability platform.\nDefine and enforce data governance for telemetry (label taxonomy, cardinality budgets, PII handling etc.).\nPartner with Platform, Security, and Solution Architecture teams to ensure observability onboarding, integrates with compliance, incident response, and developer workflows.\nCoach engineering teams on OpenTelemetry instrumentation and best practices for emitting metrics/logs/traces.\nRequired Skills:\nStrong expertise in observability platforms: Prometheus/VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, Loki/ELK, Tempo/Jaeger, OpenTelemetry.\nExperience designing large-scale telemetry pipelines with ingestion, retention, and query optimization.\nExperience reducing MTTD/MTTR by implementing detective, preventive and proactive monitoring/controls.\nFamiliarity with SRE principles: SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, burn-rate alerting.\nKnowledge of data governance in observability contexts (taxonomy, labeling, cardinality control, PII redaction).\nHands-on skills with data pipelines (Kafka, Fluent Bit, Vector, Airflow) and object storage for archival.\nStrong communication and documentation skills to serve diverse stakeholders (finance, ops, exec, dev).\nPreferred Experience:\n12+ years in SRE, Platform Engineering, or Data Engineering with a focus on observability.\nProven track record in building enterprise-wide observability strategies for hybrid/on-prem + cloud environments.\nExperience with high-performance computing (HPC) telemetry and schedulers (Slurm, LSF).\nExperience with Resilience and Business Continuity.\nExposure to multi-cloud observability integration (e.g., AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor) alongside on-prem stacks.\nFamiliarity with cost modeling and chargeback tied to resource telemetry.\nPrior leadership in designing persona-based observability views for technical and business consumers.\nAbout INSPYR Solutions\nTechnology is our focus and quality is our commitment. As a national expert in delivering flexible technology and talent solutions, we strategically align industry and technical expertise with our clients’ business objectives and cultural needs. Our solutions are tailored to each client and include a wide variety of professional services, project, and talent solutions. By always striving for excellence and focusing on the human aspect of our business, we work seamlessly with our talent and clients to match the right solutions to the right opportunities. Learn more about us at inspyrsolutions.com.\nINSPYR Solutions provides Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, or any other protected status. INSPYR Solutions complies with all applicable laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. 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