Monitoring Architect/540 Euros per day

Endeavour Recruitment has has excellent, long term opportunity for a Monitoring Architect.

SNMP protocol, prometheus and grafana or a similar stack.

onsite and remote, both options opened

EU Nationals only due to Security Clearance requirements

540 Euros per day

The Monitoring Architect is responsible for the architecture, design, and evolution of enterprise monitoring solutions.

This role focuses on defining monitoring strategies, designingscalable and resilient monitoring architectures, and ensuring observability solutions meet operational, security, and business requirements.

The Monitoring Architect works closely with Monitoring SREs, IT operations, system engineers, and application teams to translate monitoring needs into well-structured, maintainable solutions. While not primarily an operational role, the position provides expert-level support and guidance to SRE teams, especially for complex incidents, design questions, and improvement initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, plan, and maintain end-to-end monitoring architectures for infrastructure, systems, and applications
• Define monitoring standards, best practices, and design guidelines
• Evaluate, select, and integrate monitoring tools and technologies
• Design alerting strategies (thresholds, alert logic, escalation, noise reduction)
• Ensure monitoring solutions are scalable, resilient, secure, and maintainable
• Collaborate with Monitoring SREs to support complex tickets and incidents
• Provide architectural guidance during onboarding of new systems and services
• Participate in root cause analysis and drive monitoring-related improvements
• Document monitoring architectures, configurations, and operational procedures
• Support continuous improvement of observability (metrics, alerts, dashboards, SLIs/SLOs)

Technical Skills:

• Strong Linux system administration background
• Solid experience in system engineering and IT operations
• Proven experience designing and operating monitoring solutions

Hands-on knowledge of monitoring and observability tools, such as:

• Icinga
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• Experience with metrics, alerts, dashboards, and monitoring automation
• Automation tools for CI/CD (Jenkins, Gitlab) and configuration (Ansible, Terraform)
• Experience with using REAT API form different products and tools
• Understanding of networking, virtualization, and distributed systems
• Scripting or automation skills (eg, Bash, Python)

Soft Skills:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work across teams and explain complex concepts clearly
• Structured and documentation-oriented mindset
• Proactive, improvement-driven attitude

Nice to have:

• Experience with SRE practices (SLIs, SLOs, error budgets)
• Exposure to cloud and container environments (Kubernetes, cloud monitoring)
• Experience reducing alert fatigue and improving monitoring quality
• Knowledge of Dynatrace Managed monitoring system and Dynatrace certification

Mandatory Requirements:

• EU citizenship;
• Fluency in English (written and spoken) is required; proficiency in any other European language is a plus.

Please get in touch for further details.