Senior Application-Observability Architect - Home, MD, United States

Responsibilities

Peraton is seeking a Senior Application-Observability Architect to join our team of highly skilled, dedicated, and motivated cleared professionals supporting the Department of State (DoS) Consular Affairs Enterprise Infrastructure Operations (CAEIO) Program, for the Bureau of Consular Affairs (CA). The program provides IT Operations and Maintenance to modernize the legacy networks, applications, and databases supporting CA services globally.

Responsibilities

• Provide Technical Leadership and Subject Matter Expertise in architecting the intersection of mission critical applications/systems/infrastructure with observability platforms. This includes development of detailed application flow artifacts based on blueprints and substantial collaboration with Development Teams.
• In support of Observability Platform proof-of-concepts, pilots, and production implementations: Lead the gathering of functional/business requirements, success criteria, and use cases in collaboration with Observability Engineers and Development Teams.
• Provide leadership in observability lifecycle engineering activities (design, develop, test, implement, maintain) for new and existing observability tools/platforms in an enterprise environment with on-premises and cloud-integrated systems/applications/infrastructure.
• Provide leadership in proactively designing telemetry strategies to gain real-time insights and identify potential issues before they escalate.
• Apply knowledge and subject matter experience to the following:
  • Telemetry data collection, analysis, and implementation to derive meaningful insights from different sources including metrics, events, logs, and traces.
  • Distributed systems including those with microservices and hybrid infrastructure (cloud/on-premises) to effectively design telemetry pipelines, build monitoring systems, and implement observability practices.
• Provide leadership in identifying patterns, detecting anomalies, and building a holistic understanding of system/application/infrastructure behavior.
• Lead collaboration across different observability domains to include Infrastructure, Applications (APM), Networking and close these gaps with the cross-functional skills.
• Provide leadership to the following: detecting anomalies, troubleshooting incidents, monitoring system health, optimizing resource allocation, enhancing user experience, supporting compliance and security effort.
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