Senior Infrastructure Architect - Enterprise Observability and Automation
Description -Job SummarySenior individual contributor responsible for the architecture, implementation, and operational ownership of enterprise observability, monitoring, and automation platforms across HP's global IT environment. This role modernizes infrastructure visibility capabilities while ensuring operational stability, security, and compliance. Serves as a technical and operational bridge between infrastructure engineering, cybersecurity, SOX/compliance stakeholders, automation teams, and external technology partners - leading complex initiatives such as platform migrations, enterprise integrations, and governance enablement.
ResponsibilitiesEnterprise Observability and Monitoring- Application owner and senior technical authority for enterprise monitoring and logging platforms (Datadog, Splunk), including platform governance, roadmap alignment, and operational oversight.
- Lead enterprise-scale monitoring platform migrations, including architecture design, agent strategy, data ingestion models, vendor coordination, and deployment across 5,000+ servers.
- Define standards for alerting, dashboards, observability data quality, and integration with ITSM platforms (ServiceNow).
- Design and manage multi-org Datadog architecture, including org structure, RBAC, SSO/SAML, secrets management, and cybersecurity compliance.
- Oversee SNMP-based monitoring of storage and network devices, including device profiling, syslog/event integration, and NetFlow collection.
SOX Compliance and IT Governance- SOX control owner for enterprise monitoring applications - approve monthly reviews, participate in internal/external audits (EY), and maintain ITGC/SOX compliance.
- Provide audit evidence, walkthrough documentation, and coordinate with auditors on logging, access management, and change management controls.
- Review and approve technical designs for compliance-driven logging use cases, including SOX audit logs and security visibility.
- Participate in the App Owner Community for SOX, staying current on IGA, ITAC evidence, and PUAR activities.
Operational Leadership and Incident Escalation- Serve as a senior escalation point for monitoring and observability-related incidents, coordinating troubleshooting across internal teams and external vendors.
- Lead root-cause analysis and remediation efforts for complex ingestion, alerting, or platform stability issues.
- Balance operational stability with ongoing platform evolution and cost optimization.
Vendor and Stakeholder Management- Manage relationships with external vendors and implementation partners (RapDev, Wipro), including escalations, resource availability, and contract deliverables.
- Coordinate with cybersecurity and identity teams on security reviews, MFA/SSO integration, and secrets management architecture.
- Lead steering committee meetings with senior leadership to align on platform strategy, budget, and cross-organizational adoption.
Education and Experience- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years of experience in enterprise infrastructure architecture, monitoring/observability, or platform engineering.
- Proven experience operating in large, complex IT environments with strong governance and compliance requirements.
Technical- Enterprise monitoring and logging platforms (Datadog, Splunk, or equivalent)
- Infrastructure observability: metrics, logs, events, alerting, dashboards, and ITSM integrations (ServiceNow)
- Server, network, and platform monitoring; agent-based and agentless architectures
- Infrastructure automation tools (Ansible, PowerShell, scripting)
- Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and hybrid infrastructure environments
- RBAC, SSO/SAML, secrets management, and enterprise security architecture
Governance and Leadership- SOX compliance, ITGC controls, and audit processes
- Change management, CAB governance, and release processes
- Incident management and escalation leadership
- Vendor management with implementation partners and service providers
- Strong written and verbal communication across technical and executive audiences
Impact & Scope• Impacts large functions and leads large, cross-division functional teams or projects.
Complexity• Provides highly innovative solutions to complex problems within established policy.
Disclaimer• This job description describes the general nature and level of work performed in this role. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, skills, responsibilities, knowledge, etc. These may be subject to change and additional functions may be assigned as needed by management.
The pay range for this role is $130,700 to $205,200 USD annually with additional
opportunities for pay in the form of bonus and/or equity (applies to United
States of America candidates only). Pay varies by work location, job-related
knowledge, skills, and experience.
Benefits:
HP offers a comprehensive benefits package for this position, including:
* Health insurance
* Dental insurance
* Vision insurance
* Long term/short term disability insurance
* Employee assistance program
* Flexible spending account
* Life insurance
* Generous time off policies, including;
* 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure
* 11 paid holidays
* Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave (US benefits overview
[https://hpbenefits.ce.alight.com/])
The compensation and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this
posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time,
with or without notice, subject to applicable law.
Job -Engineering
Schedule -Full time
Shift -No shift premium (United States of America)
Travel -Relocation -
