The AWS Observability Engineer will implement, and standardize monitoring, alerting, logging, and dashboarding solutions across AWS environments. The role will be responsible for building reusable observability frameworks leveraging AWS-native services and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) practices.
The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in AWS CloudWatch, AWS Managed Grafana, Terraform, monitoring best practices, and operational visibility across cloud infrastructure and applications.
Monitoring & Observability
- Implement end-to-end monitoring solutions across AWS environments.
- Configure and manage Amazon CloudWatch Metrics, Logs, Dashboards, and Alarms.
- Implement monitoring standards, naming conventions, and reusable monitoring templates.
- Configure log collection, retention policies, and centralized visibility.
- Establish alerting standards and operational monitoring practices.
Grafana Dashboard Development
- Develop reusable AWS Managed Grafana dashboards.
- Build dashboards for:
- EC2
- ECS/Fargate
- EKS
- RDS
- Lambda
- API Gateway
- Security Monitoring
- Create executive, operational, infrastructure, and application dashboards.
- Implement dashboard templating and multi-environment support.
Infrastructure as Code
- Develop reusable Terraform modules for:
- CloudWatch Alarms
- SNS Topics
- Grafana Dashboards
- Monitoring Configuration
- Ensure monitoring deployments are repeatable and scalable.
- Maintain version-controlled infrastructure code repositories.
Security Monitoring
- Integrate AWS Security Hub and GuardDuty into monitoring solutions.
- Build security visibility dashboards.
- Configure security alerting and notification workflows.
- Support operational visibility of cloud security findings.
Alerting & Incident Visibility
- Configure alert thresholds and alarm strategies.
- Implement SNS-based notifications using email and SMS.
- Define alert severity classifications.
- Reduce alert noise through effective threshold management.
Documentation & Knowledge Transfer
- Prepare implementation documentation.
- Create operational runbooks and support procedures.
- Conduct knowledge transfer sessions for operations teams.
- Maintain implementation and configuration documentation.
Technical Skills Required
AWS Services
Strong hands-on experience with:
- Amazon EC2
- ECS / AWS Fargate
- Amazon EKS
- AWS Lambda
- Amazon RDS
- DynamoDB
- API Gateway
- Elastic Load Balancer (ALB/NLB)
- IAM
Monitoring & Observability
- Amazon CloudWatch
- Metrics
- Logs
- Alarms
- Log Insights
- AWS Managed Grafana
- AWS SNS
- AWS X-Ray (preferred)
- Monitoring and observability best practices
Infrastructure as Code
- Terraform (mandatory)
- CloudFormation (preferred)
- Git
- CI/CD integration
Security
Working knowledge of:
- AWS Security Hub
- AWS GuardDuty
- AWS Well-Architected Framework
- AWS Security Best Practices
Good to have Qualifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate/Professional
- Terraform Associate Certification
- Experience implementing enterprise monitoring platforms
- Experience supporting multi-account AWS environments