Description:

• Senior Observability/Monitoring Architect
• Start date 2024-09-01 (TBD)
• End date 2025-12-31 + option of extension
• Duration: 1,5 years with the possibility for extension by another 6-12 months
• Workload 100%
• Location: Zurich
• Remote ratio 40%
• Residence Country: Only candidates with Swiss residence can be considered

Task description:

• Collect, evaluate, and structure observability requirements from different parts of the organization
• Define the ambitions for centrally provided services vs. individual solutions with Infrastructure & Operations leadership
• Design high-level architecture and low-level design for a holistic observability landscape, in line with the defined requirements, ambitions and market best practices, interfacing into existing tooling and processes (eg ITSM, on-call management, automation etc.)
• Lead potential solution evaluation from a technical perspective
• Support and consult the implementation of the target solution in line with the defined architecture design and continuously re-evaluate and improve the design
• Drive the definition of target operation model for observability services that are centrally provided
• Ensure compliance with the guidelines of security, risk, audit and regulations

Skills:

Training & certificates: Studies (UNI, University of Applied Sciences, Master)

Work experience: Erfahrung in der Finanzbranche

Skills in general:

• Presentation and moderation skills and techniques
• Problem-Solving Skills
• Coordination and Organizational Skills
• Technical skills Conceptional, analytical and methodological skills to structure complex topics

Technical IT skills

Specialized in IT observability technologies with experience and a proven record of already having designed, implemented and consolidated holistic observability solutions for enterprise-grade companies > 7 years

Writing of technical concepts, architecture designs & diagrams, documentation > 7 years

Experience in hybrid/multi cloud environments and application performance monitoring in such environments. 4 -6 years

Experience in defining governance and processes related to observability on an enterprise-level 4 -6 years

Expert knowledge in Elastic, Logstash, Kibana, NXLog and OpenTelemetry 4 -6 years

Strong knowledge in streaming (Kafka) and API/API gateway technologies (Kong)Strong analytical, collaboration, and consulting skills. 4 -6 years

Experience in integrating observability solutions with ITSM tools, eg Helix ITSM. 1-3 years

Social skills:

Teamwork and cooperation > 6 years

Communicative competence > 6 years

Self-innovation and motivation > 6 years

Analytical and conceptual competence > 6 years

Ability to criticize and deal with conflict > 6 years

Languages:

English

German

Job Title: Senior Observability/Monitoring Architect

Location: Zürich, Switzerland

Job Type: Contract

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