Mid Cloud Observability Engineer

Role Overview

A cloud observability engineer's day is about making complex systems understandable, improving signal quality, and enabling faster, smarter debugging across teams. Check system health, review alerts/incidents, triage alerts, investigate issues, improve observability instrumentation, build and improve dashboards, alert optimization, work with development teams and other engineering partners, and continuous improvements.

What You Will Do

Design and implement observability frameworks using metrics, logs, and distributed tracing, develop dashboards, alerts, and visualizations to monitor system health, standardize observability practices across engineering teams, implement and manage native monitoring tools, build alerting systems, participate in on-call rotations, and improve system reliability.

Why It Might Be a Fit

This role requires experience in AWS services, including CloudWatch, X-Ray, Lambda, ECS/EKS, API Gateway, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, and hands-on experience with an observability tool. Strong understanding of containers & orchestration, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, monitoring/observability tools, and experience building observability platforms at scale in AWS is also required.

Requirements

• SRE, DevOps, or Cloud Engineering
• Cloud platforms AWS
• Experience in AWS services including CloudWatch, X-Ray, Lambda, ECS/EKS, API Gateway, RDS, DynamoDB, S3
• Hands-on with experience with an observability tool
• Dynatrace
• Splunk
• Datadog
• OpenTelemetry
• Prometheus, Grafana
• AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry
• Strong understanding of: Containers & orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation), Monitoring/observability tools

Benefits

• equal opportunity employer
• affirmative action employer
• disability accommodation
• diverse and inclusive work environment
• affinity groups for underrepresented groups

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