Solutions Architect – Observability, Software Engineering

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Brazil.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with the Digital Operations Center of Excellence (CoE).

• Develop and enhance the corporate observability strategy.

• Set architectural standards and guidelines for metrics, logs, traces, and events.

• Establish principles for the generation, collection, correlation, storage, and consumption of observability data.

• Assist in the development of observable applications by integrating observability requirements into the solution architecture from the design phase.

• Define application instrumentation standards, especially utilizing OpenTelemetry.

• Aid in expanding observability coverage across corporate platforms, applications, and services.

• Create standards for distributed tracing, structured logging, and application metrics.

• Formulate strategies for tagging and monitoring business journeys.

• Assist in defining and implementing SLIs, SLOs, and Error Budgets.

• Set architectural standards for observability in microservices and distributed architectures.

• Support initiatives related to Application Performance Monitoring (APM).

• Define and advocate observability best practices that are integrated into the software development lifecycle.

• Incorporate observability non-functional requirements into DevSecOps pipelines.

• Assist in creating architectural guardrails and Quality Gates.

• Evaluate tools and technologies pertinent to observability.

• Support the establishment of observability architectures for hybrid environments.

• Contribute to SRE, reliability, and software engineering initiatives.

• Assist in creating standards and, where applicable, corporate libraries for logs, metrics, and traces.

• Produce and review architecture documents, standards, models, and other relevant artifacts.

• Act in a consultative role with architecture, development, infrastructure, DevSecOps, and operations teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proficient knowledge of software architecture.

• Understanding of distributed architectures.

• Familiarity with microservices.

• Knowledge of REST APIs.

• Understanding of Event-Driven Architecture.

• Knowledge of Domain-Driven Design (DDD).

• Proficient knowledge of OpenTelemetry.

• Familiarity with distributed tracing.

• Understanding of structured logging.

• Knowledge of application metrics.

• Familiarity with SLIs, SLOs, and Error Budgets.

• Proficient knowledge of APM (Application Performance Monitoring).

• Understanding of observability in microservices.

• Knowledge of application instrumentation.

• Familiarity with CI/CD, GitOps, Quality Gates, and architectural guardrails.

• Experience with Java, Spring Boot, .NET, and Angular is preferred.

• Experience or knowledge of Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus, Elastic Stack, and OpenSearch is advantageous.

• Additional benefits include experience in large-scale enterprise environments; OpenTelemetry; Dynatrace; distributed architectures and microservices; SRE and Reliability Engineering; enterprise architectural standards; cloud, hybrid environments, and Kubernetes; long-term observability strategies.

• Preferred certifications include OpenTelemetry Practitioner; Dynatrace Associate/Professional; AWS Certified Developer; Microsoft Azure Developer Associate; CKAD — Certified Kubernetes Application Developer.

🏝️ Benefits

• Meal or food allowance provided per working day via an Alelo card.

• Transportation allowance with a 6% deduction from the benefit as per the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CCT).

• Copay health insurance plan.

• Dental plan.

• Life insurance.

• Access to Wellhub.

• Membership in benefits and discounts club.

• Childcare assistance, where available under a collective agreement or convention.