AWS Monitoring & Observability Engineer

We are seeking an experienced AWS Monitoring & Observability Engineer to design, implement, and standardize monitoring, alerting, logging, and dashboarding solutions across AWS environments. The successful candidate will play a key role in establishing operational visibility, improving incident response, and delivering reusable observability frameworks using AWS-native services and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) practices.

This role is ideal for professionals with strong expertise in AWS CloudWatch, AWS Managed Grafana, Terraform, and cloud monitoring best practices.

Key Responsibilities

Monitoring & Observability

Design and implement end-to-end monitoring solutions across AWS environments.

Configure and manage Amazon CloudWatch Metrics, Logs, Dashboards, and Alarms.

Develop monitoring standards, naming conventions, and reusable templates.

Implement centralized logging and log retention strategies.

Establish monitoring and alerting best practices across cloud platforms.

Dashboard Development

Develop and maintain reusable dashboards using AWS Managed Grafana.

Create operational, infrastructure, application, security, and executive dashboards.

Monitor AWS services including EC2, ECS/Fargate, EKS, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway, and Load Balancers.

Implement dashboard templating and multi-environment support.

Infrastructure as Code

Build and maintain reusable Terraform modules for monitoring solutions.

Ensure monitoring configurations are scalable, repeatable, and version controlled.

Collaborate with DevOps and engineering teams to integrate observability into deployment pipelines.

Security Monitoring

Integrate AWS Security Hub and GuardDuty into monitoring frameworks.

Build security-focused dashboards and alerting mechanisms.

Support operational visibility and reporting of security findings.

Alerting & Incident Management

Define monitoring thresholds and alerting strategies.

Improve signal-to-noise ratio through effective alert tuning and optimization.

Support incident investigation and root-cause analysis activities.

Documentation & Knowledge Sharing

Create implementation guides, runbooks, and operational procedures.

Maintain monitoring architecture and configuration documentation.

Conduct knowledge transfer sessions for operations and support teams.

Required Skills & Experience

AWS Services

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

Monitoring and observability best practices

AWS X-Ray (preferred)

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform (mandatory)

Git

CI/CD integration

CloudFormation (preferred)

Security

AWS Security Hub

AWS GuardDuty

AWS Well-Architected Framework

AWS Security Best Practices

Preferred Qualifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional)

Terraform Associate Certification

Experience supporting enterprise-scale AWS environments

Experience managing multi-account AWS deployments

Pay: Up to $7,000.00 per month

Work Location: In person