Solution Architect (Observability​)

Industry: Fintech

Location: Warsaw or Gdańsk. Remote and flexible working options may be available depending on the candidate's preferences and business needs.

Rate: up to 195 pln/h net + VAT

Employment Type: Full-time / B2B contract

As a Solution Architect, you will be responsible for defining the strategic direction of observability and monitoring within the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) service. This role focuses on architectural decisions, designing integrations, ensuring best practices, and advising SRE engineers and consulting customer teams on how to leverage observability tools (e.g. Datadog) effectively.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Defining the strategic vision for site reliability engineering, observability, and platform engineering and planning tactical steps for implementation.

• Leading the design and governance of observability tooling, ensuring scalability, security, and cost efficiency.

• Scouting and analyzing new observability features – matching them to business needs and notifying the engineers about potential improvements.

• Designing collaboration and integration models.

• Defining standards/best practices/observability framework including alerting, SLOs, and distributed tracing across digital products.

• Configuring, integrating, administering, and maintaining observability for all relevant digital products, using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

• Ensuring comprehensive monitoring coverage across digital products.

• Supporting, advising, and coaching SRE engineers on the best ways to use observability tools.

• Supporting SRE engineers in troubleshooting and optimizing monitoring configurations.

• Guiding and mentoring engineers in implementing provisioning and configuration of observability tools using Infrastructure as Code.

• Engaging with observability tool vendors to discuss complex technical issues and feature enhancements.

• Answering technical questions from product teams.

• Negotiating technical aspects of observability tools during procurement discussions to ensure optimal setup.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Fluency in English.

• Expertise in observability tools (architecture, governance, integrations, APM, security best practices).

• Strong Platform Engineering and Observability Architecture experience.

• Strong Infrastructure as Code (IaC) knowledge and experience (e.g. Terraform).

• Experience with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles.

• Experience designing log management, APM, infrastructure monitoring, and synthetic testing solutions.

• Knowledge of distributed tracing, metrics, and telemetry collection.

• Familiarity with cloud environments (Azure, Kubernetes, Databricks).

• Strong strategic thinking and vision-setting for observability and reliability.

• Excellent stakeholder communication and coaching abilities.

• Experience negotiating with vendors and external service providers.

• Ability to lead and mentor engineers, ensuring effective implementation of observability tooling.

NICE TO HAVE:

• German language proficiency.