Cloud Monitoring & Observability Engineer (DevOps)

Description:

Job Title:            Cloud Monitoring & Observability Engineer (DevOps)

Location:            New York, NY (3 days onsite Hybrid) (Only local candidates with ID)

Type:                   Contract (C2C/W2/1099)

Client:                 Direct Client

Description:

Role Summary

• Responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting monitoring and observability solutions across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform
• Focus on cloud-native monitoring, third-party monitoring tools, and end-to-end observability
• Support complex multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments
• Ensure all infrastructure and monitoring deployments are implemented through Terraform, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and automated pipelines
• Work within enterprise delivery models using Jenkins, GitHub pipelines, landing zone pipelines, and Auto SDLC

Design and manage monitoring and observability solutions for public cloud environments

• Build and support cloud-native monitoring solutions using native tools available in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform
• Integrate and manage third-party monitoring and observability platforms
• Create and maintain:
  • Dashboards
  • Alerts
  • Reports
  • Health checks
  • Service visibility frameworks
• Collect and analyze:
  • Metrics
  • Logs
  • Traces
  • Events
  • Telemetry
• Perform proactive issue detection, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis
• Support performance monitoring, capacity planning, availability monitoring, and incident response
• Collaborate with cloud, platform, security, and operations teams
• Develop operational standards, documentation, and runbooks
• Ensure observability is embedded into cloud deployment standards and operational practices

Automation / DevOps Responsibilities

• Deploy all monitoring, observability, and infrastructure configurations using Terraform
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices
• Build and support deployment automation through:
  • Jenkins
  • GitHub pipelines / GitHub Actions
  • Landing zone pipelines
  • Auto SDLC pipelines
• Support pipeline-driven, secure, scalable, and repeatable deployments
• Contribute to CI/CD processes for infrastructure and monitoring solutions
• Maintain version-controlled infrastructure and deployment templates

Required Skills and Experience

• Strong experience in monitoring and observability
• Strong experience with public cloud platforms across:
  • AWS
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform)
• Experience with cloud-native monitoring tools
• Experience with third-party monitoring and observability tools
• Strong hands-on expertise with Terraform
• Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code

Experience with:

• Jenkins
• GitHub pipelines / GitHub Actions
• Landing zone deployment models
• Auto SDLC processes

Strong knowledge of:

• Hybrid cloud environments
• Multi-cloud architecture
• Performance monitoring
• Telemetry and observability practices
• Strong troubleshooting and incident resolution skills

Preferred Monitoring / Observability Tool Experience

Experience with one or more of the following:

• Datadog
• Dynatrace
• Splunk
• Grafana
• Prometheus
• New Relic
• AppDynamics
• Other enterprise monitoring and observability platforms