Job Description
Position Title: Telemetry Architect (Design) Engagement Type: Contract Part Time Duration: 4 Months Work Hours: 20 hours/week Location: Remote (EST time zone preferred) must have Aria or Telemetry Position Responsibilities: As a Telemetry Architect, you will play a critical role in designing and optimizing observability and telemetry solutions for complex IT infrastructure environments. Your primary responsibility will be to serve as a trusted advisor and technical leader for clients, ensuring their cloud environments-particularly those built on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)-are operating at peak performance, availability, and capacity. Key duties include: • Trusted Advisor: Act as a reliable consultant by translating intricate technical data and telemetry needs into actionable business strategies that drive measurable improvements in infrastructure performance, availability, and efficiency. • Troubleshooting Leadership: Lead mission-critical troubleshooting initiatives using telemetry data to rapidly identify the root cause of performance issues, outages, and system anomalies within VCF SDDC stack deployments. • Knowledge Transfer: Design and deliver engaging workshops and training sessions for client technical staff, instilling best practices for VCF observability, in-depth telemetry data analysis, and the effective use of monitoring/tooling solutions. • This is a contract opportunity with a consulting and staffing firm, supporting a third-party customer. Essential Skills, Experience • Industry Experience: Minimum of 7+ years of progressive experience in IT infrastructure, with at least 3 years dedicated to VCF (VMware Cloud Foundation) architecture, deployment, and management, and 3 years directly in Telemetry, Observability, or Performance Engineering roles. • VMware Cloud Foundation Expertise: Demonstrated, hands-on proficiency with the VMware Cloud Foundation stack-including vSphere, vSAN, NSX-T, SDDC Manager, and the Aria suite. • Observability Platforms: Expert-level familiarity with industry-leading telemetry and monitoring tools such as Aria Operations/Logs, PrometheThanos, Grafana, Splunk, and the ELK Stack; experience with other APM or observability platforms is a plus. • Scripting and Automation: Advanced capabilities in at least one scripting language (Python or PowerShell) for API integrations, automation of monitoring activities, and data processing tasks. • Data Analysis & Modeling: Hands-on experience with time-series databases, and a strong analytical skill set for building data models, conducting statistical analysis, and generating predictive performance insights. • Consulting & Communication: Exceptional client-facing communication skills (written and verbal), presentation abilities, and strong interpersonal skills. Proven experience leading technical discussions, facilitating workshops, and managing stakeholders' expectations in a consulting setting. Qualifications: • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field preferred; equivalent relevant experience will be considered. • Relevant industry certifications in VMware, cloud infrastructure, or observability tooling are highly valued. • Ability to work remotely with flexibility to collaborate with EST-based teams and stakeholders. • Self-starter with a strong sense of ownership and enthusiasm for delivering value through technology innovation and operational excellence.