AWS Monitoring & Observability Engineer

We are seeking a AWS Observability Engineer to 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.