Monitoring and Observability Engineer

Location: Yerevan, Armenia; hybrid work environment

Company

hirify.global is seeking an engineer to shape observability infrastructure supporting platform reliability and performance.

What you will do

• Design and architect observability solutions for metrics, logs, traces, and synthetic monitoring across on-premise and cloud environments.
• Build and maintain custom monitoring agents and exporters for internal services and infrastructure.
• Develop dashboards, alerts, and runbooks that provide actionable insights for operations and engineering teams.
• Own deployment, scaling, performance tuning, and capacity planning for the monitoring stack.
• Implement distributed tracing pipelines and define observability standards across teams.
• Support incident response, root-cause analysis, tooling evaluation, and collaboration with platform, networking, and application teams.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in monitoring, observability, or SRE roles with hands-on ownership of observability infrastructure.
• Deep expertise in at least two of Prometheus or VictoriaMetrics, Elastic Stack, Grafana, Loki, Jaeger, Tempo, or OpenTelemetry.
• Production-grade programming experience with Go, Python, or similar, including custom monitoring agents or exporters.
• Strong Linux administration, networking, TCP/IP, DNS, VLANs, routing, traffic analysis, firewall, kernel, and process-management knowledge.
• Experience operating monitoring systems in Kubernetes and using IaC or GitOps tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Flux, or ArgoCD.
• Strong incident response, scripting, automation, log aggregation, and alerting strategy experience.

Nice to have

• Experience with distributed tracing, service mesh observability, APM, synthetic monitoring, or time-series database query optimization.
• Familiarity with Kafka-based telemetry pipelines and AWS, GCP, Azure, multi-cloud, or hybrid monitoring.
• Background in capacity planning and performance engineering.

Culture & Benefits

• Open, feedback-driven culture supporting continuous professional growth.
• Distributed, hybrid work environment with teams across multiple time zones.
• Competitive compensation and well-being benefits.
• Opportunity to shape observability strategy and pilot modern tooling and practices.