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Ascension · 4 weeks ago

Observability & Monitoring Architect

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$121K/yr - $169K/yr

7+ years exp

Ascension is a leading healthcare organization committed to providing compassionate care. They are seeking an Observability & Monitoring Architect to design and standardize enterprise monitoring and observability capabilities across various network and infrastructure assets, enhancing clinical uptime and operational performance.

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H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Design and maintain end-to-end observability architectures spanning on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments

Establish modern design patterns for telemetry ingestion, event correlation, dependency mapping, health scoring, and digital experience monitoring

Ensure that all monitoring architectures align with enterprise architecture, operational maturity goals, and patient-care-driven service reliability

Develop advanced architectures for SolarWinds (network/server/cloud monitoring, alerting, NetPath, PerfStack, UDT, VNQM, LA)

Architect ScienceLogic SL1 deployments, device models, power packs, AIOps integrations, and automation workflows

Optimize integrations between monitoring tools, AIOps engines, and ServiceNow Incident/Change/CMDB

Define and govern alerting standards, thresholds, baselines, and correlation logic

Reduce alert fatigue by driving alert hygiene, rationalization, and automation

Implement event enrichment models that include device dependencies, related alerts, historical data, and performance context

Architect AIOps patterns that leverage anomaly detection, predictive analytics, and automated remediation

Partner with platform teams to expand automation capabilities and integrate closed-loop workflows

Evaluate emerging AIOps technologies and recommend adoption paths aligned to business needs

Design monitoring and observability improvements that enhance reliability, MTTR, and overall network health

Support problem management by enabling deep root-cause visibility and reduction of chronic issues

Participate in operational reviews, incident postmortems, and continuous improvement initiatives

Work closely with Network Operations, Network Architecture, Cloud Engineering, Cybersecurity, and Applications & Platforms

Ensure observability coverage keeps pace with new deployments, cloud workloads, modernization initiatives, and architectural changes

Guide engineering teams in implementing monitoring standards and best practices

Maintain architectural documentation, solution designs, monitoring standards, and blueprint diagrams

Contribute to observability governance frameworks, telemetry onboarding processes, and lifecycle management policies

Qualification

Enterprise monitoring platformsAIOps architectureNetwork telemetryServiceNow integrationsCloud monitoring frameworksScripting/automationAnalytical skillsProblem-solving skillsCommunication skillsLeadership experienceDocumentation skills

Required

Hands-on experience designing or supporting enterprise monitoring and observability platforms (SolarWinds, ScienceLogic SL1, Dynatrace, Datadog, New Relic, or similar)

Strong understanding of network, server, and cloud telemetry, SNMP, APIs, logs, metrics, and event processing

Experience defining alert thresholds, baselines, correlation rules, and noise-reduction strategies

Knowledge of ServiceNow integrations for event management, CMDB, and automated incident workflows

Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills in complex, distributed environments

Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present complex technical concepts to various audiences

High School diploma equivalency with 3 years of cumulative experience OR Associate's degree/Bachelor's degree with 2 years of cumulative experience OR 7 years of applicable cumulative job specific experience required

Preferred

Experience with AIOps platforms or features (anomaly detection, predictive health scoring, automated remediation)

Familiarity with cloud monitoring frameworks (Azure Monitor, AWS CloudWatch, GCP Operations)

Scripting/automation experience (Python, PowerShell, API integrations)

Certifications such as SolarWinds SCP, ScienceLogic certifications, ITIL, or relevant cloud/network credentials

Benefits

Paid time off (PTO)

Various health insurance options & wellness plans

Retirement benefits including employer match plans

Long-term & short-term disability

Employee assistance programs (EAP)

Parental leave & adoption assistance

Tuition reimbursement

Ways to give back to your community

Company

Ascension

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Answering God's call to bring health, healing and hope to all.

Founded in 1999

St Louis, Missouri, USA

10001+ employees

https://healthcare.ascension.org

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