Principal Observability Architect (Telco & Bare-Metal OpenShift)
Job Title: Principal Observability Architect / Lead SRE (Cloud Native Platforms)
Location: USA (Remote)
Employment Type: Long-term Contract
Domain: Telecommunications infrastructure, 5G Core, & Open-RAN Observability
🛠️ Important Skills (Non-Negotiable Baseline)
Candidates must have production-proven experience across all four pillars below to be considered for this role:
Observability Core: VictoriaMetrics Cluster (vmcluster), MetricsQL fluency, vmagent stream aggregation, multi-tenancy via vmauth.
Platform Orchestration: Red Hat OpenShift (OCP), Bare-metal/On-premises setups, StatefulSets, Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs).
Automation & Security: GitOps-native (ArgoCD, Kustomize), HashiCorp Vault (PKI/Dynamic Secrets), OIDC/OAuth2, Zero Trust architecture.
Domain Expertise: Telecommunications data scale, FCAPS monitoring framework, multi-vendor heterogeneous telemetry integration