AWS Observability Engineer

Job description

Role Overview

We are looking for a highly motivated Observability Engineer to design, implement, and operate end to end observability solutions for modern, cloud native platforms. The role focuses on building and maintaining metrics, logs, and tracing (MELT) pipelines using industry standard tools and ensuring high system reliability, performance, and visibility.

You will work closely with SRE, DevOps, Platform, and Application teams to improve system monitoring, troubleshoot production issues, and drive a culture of operational excellence. ________________________________________ Key Responsibilities Observability Platform Engineering

• Design, implement, and maintain observability platforms using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and Tempo
• Build scalable pipelines for metrics, logs, and distributed traces
• Define and enforce observability standards across teams

Monitoring & Alerting

• Create and maintain SLOs, SLIs, and alerting strategies
• Design actionable alerts that reduce noise and prevent alert fatigue
• Configure dashboards, alerts, and runbooks for production systems

Kubernetes & Cloud Observability

• Implement observability for Kubernetes (EKS/GKE/AKS) workloads Enable pod level, node level, and cluster level visibility
• Integrate observability with cloud services (AWS/GCP/Azure) Incident Response & Troubleshooting
• Support production incident investigations using logs, metrics, and traces
• Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and post incident reviews Improve MTTR by enhancing observability coverage Automation & Optimization Automate observability deployment using Helm, Terraform, or GitOps
• Optimize cost and performance of telemetry pipelines
• Improve data retention, sampling, and aggregation strategies

Collaboration & Enablement

• Partner with development teams to onboard applications to observability
• Provide guidance on instrumentation best practices
• Document observability architectures and operational playbooks ________________________________________ Required Skills

Core Technical Skills

Strong understanding of observability concepts (metrics, logs, traces)

Hands on experience with: OpenTelemetry (SDKs, Agents, Gateways) Prometheus (scraping, recording rules, alerts) Grafana (dashboards, alerts, correlations) Loki or other log aggregation systems Tempo / Jaeger for distributed tracing Cloud & Platform Experience with Kubernetes Experience running workloads on AWS (preferred) or other clouds Familiarity with cloud services (EKS, EC2, IAM, S3, Load Balancers) DevOps & SRE Tooling CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab ) Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / CloudFormation) Linux and networking fundamentals </span

Qualifications

BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY