Mid Cloud Observability Engineer

A cloud observability engineer’s day is about making complex systems understandable, improving signal quality, and enabling faster, smarter debugging across teams. 

• Check system heathy, review alerts/incidents. 

• Triage alerts 

• Investigate issues 

• Improve observability instrumentation  

• Build and improve dashboards 

• Alert optimization 

• Work with development teams and other engineering partners. 

• Continuous improvements.  

• Release support. 

Observability & Monitoring 

• 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 (logging, telemetry, tracing) 

• Implement and manage native monitoring tools. 

• Amazon CloudWatch (metrics, logs, alarms, dashboards) 

• AWS X-Ray (distributed tracing)  

• AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) 

Detection & Response 

• Build alerting systems (avoid alert fatigue) 

• Participate in on-call rotations 

• Build intelligent alerting using 

Improve System Reliability/ proactively reduce risk 

• Identify reliability risks to help harden systems against failure  

• Reduction in alert noise / false positives 

• Increased observability coverage (% of services instrumented) 

• Improved SLO compliance 

Instrumentation & Telemetry Engineering 

• Embed observability into applications 

• Add tracing/metrics into code 

• Standardize logging formats 

• Ensure all services are observable end-to-end 

• Microservices (EKS, ECS) 

• Serverless (Lambda, API Gateway) 

• Data services (RDS, DynamoDB, S3) 

Collaboration Across Teams 

• Development  

• Platform/infra teams 

• Security & operations 

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 

Nice to have

• Experience building observability platforms at scale in AWS 

• Familiarity with multi-account AWS environments 

• Experience with cost optimization for observability (logging/metrics ingestion) 

• Experience in high-scale distributed system 

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