This role is for one of the Weekday's clients
We are seeking a highly skilled Principal Project Manager with a strong background in Observability and Project Management to drive strategic initiatives, improve system reliability, and enhance monitoring capabilities. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience managing large-scale observability projects, ensuring high availability, and optimizing performance monitoring solutions. This role requires expertise in project planning, execution, and delivery, along with a deep understanding of observability tools and best practices.
Project Management Leadership: Oversee and manage complex observability projects, from inception to completion, ensuring alignment with business goals and technology strategies.
Observability Strategy & Execution: Develop and implement observability solutions, integrating logging, monitoring, tracing, and alerting frameworks to enhance system reliability and performance.
Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with engineering, DevOps, SRE, and product teams to define observability goals, deliver high-impact solutions, and improve overall system visibility.
Risk Management & Problem-Solving: Identify potential risks, mitigate issues, and ensure proactive monitoring strategies are in place to prevent system failures or performance degradation.
Process Optimization: Establish best practices for monitoring, logging, and alerting, leveraging industry-leading observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, Splunk, and OpenTelemetry.
Budget & Resource Management: Manage project budgets, resources, and timelines efficiently, ensuring cost-effectiveness and value-driven implementation.
KPI & Metrics Analysis: Define key performance indicators (KPIs) for observability initiatives and regularly assess the effectiveness of monitoring solutions.
Compliance & Governance: Ensure observability solutions comply with industry regulations, security protocols, and internal governance policies.
Continuous Improvement: Drive a culture of continuous improvement by staying updated with the latest observability trends, tools, and technologies.
Project Management Expertise: 10-18 years of experience in project management, preferably in observability, monitoring, or infrastructure projects.
Observability Tools & Technologies: Hands-on experience with tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, Splunk, OpenTelemetry, or similar platforms.
Technical Knowledge: Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), microservices architecture, and DevOps methodologies.
Leadership & Communication: Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, drive collaboration, and effectively communicate technical and business objectives.
Agile & Scrum: Familiarity with Agile methodologies, Scrum frameworks, and DevOps culture to accelerate project execution.
Risk & Incident Management: Expertise in risk assessment, incident management, and root cause analysis for system reliability and performance improvements.
Certification (Preferred): PMP, PRINCE2, CSM, ITIL, or relevant observability-related certifications.
Keyskills: management product manager