Chaos Architect - Gurgaon/Kolkata - 8 To 12 years

Location: Gurugram (preferred) or Kolkata

Role Description:

• Define and own the Chaos Engineering strategy, architecture, and roadmap.
• Architect automated RCA systems leveraging observability platforms, AI/ML techniques, and event correlation tools.
• Develop resilience patterns and chaos experimentation frameworks integrated into the SDLC.
• Design and orchestrate controlled fault injection experiments to validate system robustness (e.g., latency injection, dependency failures, resource exhaustion).
• Evaluate and deploy Chaos Engineering tools (such as Harness, Gremlin, Chaos Mesh, LitmusChaos, Simian Army, etc.) tailored to cloud-native, hybrid, and legacy environments.
• Establish guardrails, blast radius controls, and automated rollback procedures for experiments.
• Architect solutions to automatically detect, triage, and pinpoint root causes for production incidents.
• Integrate logs, metrics, traces, and events across monitoring tools (Datadog, New Relic, Splunk, ELK, Prometheus) for correlation and insights.
• Develop or integrate ML models and rules engines to accelerate RCA and reduce MTTR.
• Define policies, processes, and success criteria for chaos experiments and RCA automation.
• Create reusable playbooks, runbooks, and knowledge artifacts.
• Mentor engineering teams on resilience and reliability engineering.
• Partner with SRE, Platform Engineering, Application Development, and Security teams.
• Champion a culture of proactive failure testing and continuous improvement.

Key Skills & Qualification:

• Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native architectures (Kubernetes, Microsoft Azure).
• Strong knowledge of observability pillars (logging, monitoring, tracing).
• Hands-on experience with Azure Monitor, Azure Log Analytics, Azure Application Insights, Azure Sentinel, Azure Automation, Logic Apps, Azure Machine Learning, Azure Data Explorer
• Hands-on experience with Chaos Engineering tools and fault injection practices (Azure Chaos Studio, harness, Gremlin)
• Familiarity with AIOps and intelligent RCA frameworks.
• Proficiency in scripting/programming languages (Python, Go, Java).
• Experience automating experiments and RCA workflows via pipelines (GitHub, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps).
• Strong analytical mindset for dissecting failures and correlating signals across multiple systems.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and drive cultural change.