AI Observability Principal Architect

AI Observability Principal Architect

At Chevron Engineering and Innovation Excellence Center (ENGINE) in Bengaluru, we leverage India’s advanced engineering and digital capabilities to develop scalable, data-driven solutions for energy challenges. By integrating global expertise with local innovation, our teams are helping to meet the global energy demands of today and build the lower carbon energy systems of tomorrow.

Full-Time 8+ years of experience

success profile Collaborative Detail-oriented Organized Proactive Strategic Adaptable

Culture At Chevron India, culture is defined by collaboration, innovation, and a shared commitment to solving the world’s energy challenges. Employees are encouraged to think boldly, work across disciplines, and contribute to projects that have real-world impact. Whether it’s through advanced engineering, digital transformation, or operational excellence, team members are empowered to bring their best ideas forward.

The Bengaluru based Chevron ENGINE is a hub for technical talent, where professionals thrive in a dynamic, inclusive environment. Chevron fosters a workplace where continuous learning, and career growth are prioritized. Employees are supported with competitive benefits, leadership development, and a strong sense of purpose—knowing their work contributes to a lower carbon energy future.

hear from our people

our greatest strength lies in the diversity and dedication of our people. From our ENGINE center in Bengaluru to our operations across the country, our talented professionals bring deep expertise and a collaborative spirit to every task. Together, we ensure the safety, efficiency, and continuity of our work—driving innovation and excellence in everything we do.

benefits

• Competitive
• Salaries
• Annual incentive
• awards
• Health care
• coverage and life
• insurance
• Time off (Paid
• vacations and
• holidays)
• Retirement

benefits

• Recognition and

• service award

• programs

• AI Observability Principal Architect

• Bengaluru, India

• The Chevron Engineering and Innovation Excellence Center (ENGINE) in Bengaluru India brings together the resources and expertise of the Chevron global network with talent in India to enhance agility and technological innovation to optimize solutions for the world’s current and future energy challenges. As one of the leading energy providers worldwide, Chevron is involved in the production of crude oil and natural gas, manufacturing of transportation fuels, lubricants, petrochemicals, and additives, and the development of enabling technologies.

• Chevron's vision is to be the global energy company most admired for its people, partnerships, and performance. With a clear purpose to develop affordable, reliable, ever-cleaner energy that enables human progress, we believe human ingenuity has the power to solve any challenge and overcome any obstacle. Meeting the world’s growing energy needs requires the pursuit of innovations and advancements that deliver a better future for all.

• The AI Observability Principal Architect is responsible for defining and delivering end-to-end observability and AIOps capabilities across enterprise applications and platforms. The role focuses on enabling proactive detection, intelligent event correlation, and automated incident response, improving system reliability and operational efficiency.

• This role will lead observability strategy, standardization, and implementation across teams, ensuring clear visibility into system health, business workflows, and performance outcomes. The lead will work closely with SRE, application, infrastructure, and service management teams to embed outcome-driven observability (CUJs, SLIs/SLOs) and drive continuous improvement in incident detection and resolution.

• Assignment Deliverables

• Define and implement observability strategy, standards, and roadmap

• Establish telemetry framework (logs, metrics, traces) and instrumentation standards

• Define Critical User Journeys (CUJs) and map Service Level Indicators (SLIs) / SLOs

• Enable actionable alerting aligned to user/business impact

• Implement alert-to-incident automation with correct routing and ownership Drive AIOps capabilities:

• Event correlation and alert noise reduction

• Root-cause-based incident generation

• Predictive detection and anomaly identification

• Build and optimize observability dashboards for operations and leadership visibility

• Enable automation and self-healing playbooks for recurring incidents

• Lead major incident support and post-incident improvements

• Ensure continuous improvement through observability lifecycle management

Required Skills

• 18+ years experience in IT Operations / SRE / Observability / Platform Engineering

• Strong expertise in:Observability (logs, metrics, traces, distributed tracing)SRE practices (SLIs, SLOs, error budgets),Incident management and automation

• Experience in AIOps / Event Management: Event correlation, alert deduplication, noise reduction

• Hands-on experience with observability platforms and ITSM integrations

• Strong understanding of: Distributed systems and cloud environments and Telemetry pipelines and data integration

• Experience in designing automation workflows, runbooks, and self-healing mechanisms

• Strong stakeholder management and ability to work across application, infra, and operations teams

• Nice to Have

• Experience with Azure observability stack / OpenTelemetry

• Experience with ServiceNow ITOM / AIOps

• Exposure to AI-driven observability (anomaly detection, predictive analytics)

• Experience in building executive dashboards and reporting frameworks

• Chevron ENGINE supports global operations, supporting business requirements across the world. Accordingly, the work hours for employees will be aligned to support business requirements. The standard work week will be Monday to Friday. Working hours are 8:00am to 5:00pm or 1:30pm to 10:30pm.

• What we can offer you

• Everything we do at Chevron is guided by our values and our commitment to The Chevron Way (opens in new window).

• Join a workplace where innovation, collaboration and safety are at the core of how we work.

• Work in thoughtfully designed environments that support focus, well-being, and innovation enhanced by digital tools that enable seamless collaboration.

• Grow through structured learning, mentorship, and opportunities to contribute to impactful projects that align with Chevron’s values and business priorities.

• Access comprehensive benefits (opens in new window) that support your health, well-being, and work-life balance.

• Engage with emerging technologies and digital solutions that are shaping the future of energy and enterprise.