Assignment Description

Our client in the automotive industry is currently seeking a Digital Architect.

As a Digital Architect, you will play a pivotal role in the development of the platform core and common platform services. Your focus will be on solving complex technical challenges related to cloud infrastructure automation, multi-region networking, authentication/authorization, and logging/metrics collection at scale. Additionally, you will provide tooling and frameworks for engineering teams to enable transaction tracing, performance analysis, business monitoring, and alerting.

Responsibilities:

• Lead or contribute to engineering efforts from design to implementation, addressing complex technical challenges in monitoring distributed systems at scale.
• Drive the roadmap for Observability platforms in collaboration with cross-functional partners, integrating multiple perspectives to ensure success.
• Build, lead, and mentor an Observability team, fostering a culture of teamwork, trust, and mutual success.
• Engage in deep technical design discussions within your team and across partner teams to ensure the development of the right systems.
• Promote the adoption of best practices in monitoring, alerting, and performance across development teams.
• Collaborate closely with development teams to implement monitoring and observability instrumentation within their platforms.
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation for Monitoring and Observability services.
• Utilize containerization and container orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Implement cloud infrastructure automation, with a strong preference for experience in Azure.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Proficient experience with Azure cloud services.
• Previous experience delivering Observability at scale is required.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes and distributed systems development.
• Experience with services programming languages such as Go, Java, Kotlin, Scala, Clojure, Python, or Ruby.
• Familiarity with Linux systems and monitoring/alerting systems.
• Experience designing and building reliable systems at scale.
• Familiarity with distributed tracing systems such as Jaeger or Open Zipkin.
• Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, CDK, Pulumi, or CloudFormation.