Infrastructure Solution Architect-Observability & Application Performance Monitoring

22 Apr 2024

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FM Global is a leading property insurer of the world's largest businesses, providing more than one-third of FORTUNE 1000-size companies with engineering-based risk management and property insurance solutions. FM Global helps clients maintain continuity in their business operations by drawing upon state-of-the-art loss-prevention engineering and research, risk management skills and support services, tailored risk transfer capabilities, and superior financial strength. To do so, we rely on a dynamic, culturally diverse group of employees working in more than 100 countries in various challenging roles.

This position is open to candidates seeking remote opportunities. Candidate must be open to periodic travel to headquarters located in Johnston, RI dependent on business needs. Must be willing to work EST hours.

The Infrastructure Solution Architect: Observability is responsible for driving the technical solutions of observability, telemetry, and monitoring, leading the creation and adoption of tooling for infrastructure and product teams. The right candidate for this role requires theoretical and pragmatic knowledge of modern infrastructure and application monitoring architecture. To fill this role, you must create and document requirements and develop a reference architecture for proposed solutions. This role requires a deep understanding of modern infrastructure and application architectures to ensure that proposed solutions are well-architected, scalable, secure, high quality, extensible, maintainable, and performant. The Infrastructure Solution Architect: Observability must ensure that Observability and APM tools integrate into the overall technical landscape and adhere to the Enterprise Architecture standards and patterns while meeting the needs of near and long-term stakeholder visibility.

Responsibilities:

The Solution Architect collaborates with the Solution Architects, Enterprise Architects, and Infrastructure Engineering Teams to prioritize and decompose Enterprise Architectural guidance into actionable team tasks. This role is responsible for evangelizing best practices, identifying improvement opportunities, and providing advice, mentorship, and oversight to ensure successful implementations that drive the growth of the APM strategy in the organization.

The Infrastructure Solution Architect will:
  • Work closely with technical product delivery teams to design and build observability into products and technical solutions.
  • Collaborate with Product Owners to define technical work and feature creation's business value and develop a comprehensive long-term roadmap.
  • Ensure industry-accepted principles of Enterprise Architecture are integrated into the enterprise and well-planned rollout strategies are adopted by providing an APM roadmap.
  • Focus on best practices related to observability, testing, performance, and monitoring of Cloud and on-Premises infrastructure, platforms, and applications.
  • Develop lifecycle practices for observability and application performance monitoring, providing support to service and product teams.
  • Mentor delivery teams effectively use patterns, measurements, logging, and other associated metadata related to observability. Periodically review progress to ensure alignment with established corporate guardrails.

Observability Focus:
  • Design, develop, and implement observability solutions for the organization's infrastructure.
  • Work with the Infrastructure Engineering teams to ensure the organization's infrastructure and applications are monitored and maintained efficiently and effectively.
  • Research and evaluate new observability technologies and tools.
  • Provide technical guidance and support to Infrastructure Engineering teams.
  • Collaborate with other teams to integrate observability solutions into the organization's observability ecosystem.

Qualifications:

  • Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Information Systems
  • Familiarity with OpenTelemetry and its use cases and deployments.
  • At least six years of experience implementing cloud solutions, i.e., Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform
  • At least six years of experience in DevOps methodologies
  • Experience with DataDog, Dynatrace, New Relic, Splunk, Prometheus, and/or Open Telemetry
  • At least six years of application support or development languages, i.e., React.js Node.js
  • Must have experience with a scripting language, i.e., Python, PowerShell
  • Understands common industry standard business practices.
  • Excellent client management skills and the ability to work with clients to develop and manage an action plan.
  • Strong business acumen, strategic and analytical thinking, root cause analysis, and creative problem-solving ability.
Certifications that help
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA, CKAD, CKS)
Education
  • Bachelor's degree in information technology, Computer Science, or related field; or equivalent work experience and training.
  • Advanced degrees and certifications are desirable.

The hiring range for this position is $110,900 to $182,300. The final salary offer will vary based on geographic location, individual education, skills, and experience. The position is eligible to participate in FM Global's comprehensive Total Rewards program that includes an incentive plan, generous health and well-being programs, a 401(k) and pension plan, career development opportunities, tuition reimbursement, flexible work, time off allowances and much more.

FM Global is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to attracting, developing, and retaining a diverse workforce.

Please note that all FM Global visitors, including external candidates interviewing for open positions will be required to be vaccinated and should be prepared to provide proof of vaccination.

  • ID: #49747309
  • State: Rhode Island Johnston 02919 Johnston USA
  • City: Johnston
  • Salary: USD TBD TBD
  • Job type: Permanent
  • Showed: 2023-04-22
  • Deadline: 2023-06-19
  • Category: Et cetera