Role: Lead SRE
Exp:10+ yrs
Location: Dallas, TX (3 days Onsite)
Top Skills: Amazon CloudWatch Metrics V2, AWS AppSignals, AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT), and AWS X-Ray
Lead SRE observability workstream focusing on AWS-native monitoring solutions, migrating from third-party tools (Datadog/Splunk) to AWS CloudWatch ecosystem. Design and implement comprehensive observability architecture using CloudWatch Metrics V2, AWS AppSignals, AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT), and AWS X-Ray. Establish enterprise-grade dashboards, alerting frameworks, and CloudFormation-based infrastructure automation for monitoring stack deployment.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Observability Migration Leadership: Lead migration from Datadog/Splunk to AWS CloudWatch Metrics V2, ensuring feature parity, cost optimization, and minimal disruption to monitoring capabilities
- Deep Metrics Integration: Implement advanced CloudWatch metrics collection from ZeHorizon platforms, custom application metrics, and infrastructure telemetry with enhanced resolution and dimensionality
- Distributed Tracing & APM: Design and deploy AWS X-Ray distributed tracing architecture integrated with ADOT (AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry) for end-to-end application performance monitoring
- AppSignals Implementation: Configure AWS AppSignals for automatic service-level objective (SLO) tracking, anomaly detection, and application health monitoring
- Dashboard & Alerting: Create CloudWatch dashboards with cross-service correlation, CloudWatch Alarms with composite alarms, and EventBridge-based alert routing to incident management systems
- Infrastructure as Code: Develop CloudFormation templates (CFT) for repeatable observability stack deployment across multi-account/multi-region environments
- Cost Optimization: Optimize CloudWatch costs through metric filtering, log retention policies, and efficient query patterns while maintaining observability coverage.
Observability & Monitoring:
- Amazon CloudWatch: Expert-level proficiency in CloudWatch Metrics V2 (high-resolution metrics, metric math, anomaly detection), CloudWatch Logs (Logs Insights queries, subscription filters, metric filters), CloudWatch Alarms (composite alarms, alarm actions), and CloudWatch Dashboards (cross-account/cross-region dashboards, custom widgets)
- AWS X-Ray: Distributed tracing architecture, service maps, trace analysis, sampling rules, X-Ray SDK integration, and X-Ray daemon configuration
- AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT): ADOT Collector deployment (ECS/EKS/EC2), OpenTelemetry SDK instrumentation, exporters configuration (CloudWatch, X-Ray, Prometheus), and custom metric pipelines
- AWS AppSignals: Service-level objective (SLO) configuration, automatic instrumentation, anomaly detection, and application health scoring
- Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP): Prometheus-compatible metrics collection, PromQL queries, and Grafana integration (if hybrid monitoring required)
- Amazon Managed Grafana (AMG): Dashboard creation, data source integration (CloudWatch, AMP, X-Ray), and role-based access control.
General Requirements:
- 8+ years of relevant hands-on delivery experience at L6 scope
- Prior delivery in a large regulated enterprise environment, preferably financial services
- Ability to write architecture decision records, design documents, runbooks and test evidence for client Tech Risk review
- Strong stakeholder communication across engineering, security, operations, SRE and delivery teams.
Regards,
Prakash
prakash.v(@)smg(-)llc(.)us
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