Solution Architect, Observability | Contract
We are looking for an experienced Solution Architect specialising in Observability to join a major enterprise infrastructure transformation program.
This is an architecture-focused role, driving the development of an enterprise-wide observability strategy, simplifying existing monitoring capabilities and establishing scalable, consistent architecture standards across cloud, infrastructure and applications.
Key Responsibilities
Define current and target-state enterprise observability architecture.
Develop architecture principles, standards, patterns and technology roadmaps.
Assess and rationalise existing monitoring tools and capabilities.
Design vendor-agnostic observability solutions across complex hybrid environments.
Embed observability into infrastructure, cloud and application architecture.
Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, SRE, Infrastructure, Security and Engineering teams.
Support technology consolidation,



platform integration and adoption strategies.
Skills & Experience
10+ years across Solution Architecture, Observability, SRE or Infrastructure.
Proven experience designing enterprise-scale observability architectures.
Strong architectural knowledge of Splunk, Dynatrace, OpenTelemetry or similar platforms.
Solid understanding of cloud, hybrid infrastructure, Kubernetes and containerised environments.
Experience with telemetry, metrics, logs, traces, alerting and SLI/SLO frameworks.
Demonstrated ability to define target-state architectures and technology roadmaps.
Robust stakeholder engagement across technical and architecture teams.
Highly regarded:tool rationalisation and migration, telemetry pipelines, AIOps, observability governance, and cost and licensing optimisation.

📌 Solution Architect, Observability | Contract (Melbourne)
🏢 Charterhouse
📍 Melbourne