Senior / Principal Observability Architect

Job Title: Senior / Principal Observability Architect

Location: Bellevue, WA or Overland Park, KS

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Observability Architect / Principal Architect with strong hands-on expertise in enterprise observability, VictoriaMetrics, Kubernetes/OpenShift, security, networking, GitOps, and telecommunications environments. The ideal candidate will have deep production experience designing, implementing, operating, and governing large-scale, high-throughput platforms.

The role requires a combination of hands-on technical expertise, architecture leadership, security knowledge, operational experience, and executive-level communication skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and operate enterprise-scale observability platforms.
• Own architecture decisions from design through production delivery.
• Develop High-Level Designs (HLD), Low-Level Designs (LLD), Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), sequence diagrams, and interface contracts.
• Design and operate VictoriaMetrics clusters supporting sustained, high-cardinality workloads.
• Establish observability standards across multiple teams, platforms, and technology vendors.
• Design SLI/SLO frameworks, error-budget alerting, dashboards, logging, and distributed tracing.
• Lead Zero Trust security architecture and enterprise identity integration.
• Design and operate Kubernetes/OpenShift platforms supporting stateful and high-throughput workloads.
• Implement GitOps-based delivery using ArgoCD or FluxCD.
• Develop Kustomize-based multi-environment and multi-cluster deployment strategies.
• Design Kubernetes networking, NetworkPolicy, MetalLB, BGP, OVN-Kubernetes, DNS, and cross-cluster connectivity.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, project management, security, and operations teams.
• Translate technical architecture decisions into programme risks, timelines, trade-offs, and business outcomes.
• Provide technical leadership across complex enterprise transformation programmes.
• Present architecture decisions and recommendations to senior engineering and executive stakeholders.

Diverse Lynx LLC is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive due consideration for employment without any discrimination. All applicants will be evaluated solely on the basis of their ability, competence and their proven capability to perform the functions outlined in the corresponding role. We promote and support a diverse workforce across all levels in the company.