Position: Senior Cloud Observability Engineer
Location: New York, New York
Duration: Contract
Job ID: 180550
Job Overview: This Operations (Tech) | Level 4 role focuses on designing, implementing, and supporting advanced monitoring and observability solutions across multi-cloud environments, including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. The position emphasizes cloud-native monitoring, integration of third-party observability tools, and end-to-end visibility across complex hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures. The successful candidate will leverage Terraform, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and automated CI/CD pipelines to ensure scalable, secure, and repeatable deployments, while collaborating closely with cloud, platform, security, and operations teams to embed observability into enterprise cloud standards and operational practices.
Responsibilities: - Design, implement, and manage monitoring and observability solutions for public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform).
- Build and support cloud-native monitoring solutions using native tools available in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
- Integrate, configure, and manage third-party monitoring and observability platforms to provide comprehensive visibility.
- Create and maintain dashboards, alerts, reports, health checks, and service visibility frameworks for critical services and infrastructure.
- Collect and analyze metrics, logs, traces, events, and telemetry to support operational insights and decision-making.
- Perform proactive issue detection, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis to minimize downtime and improve reliability.
- Support performance monitoring, capacity planning, availability monitoring, and incident response activities.
- Collaborate with cloud, platform, security, and operations teams to align observability solutions with enterprise standards.
- Develop and maintain operational standards, documentation, and runbooks for monitoring and observability processes.
- Ensure observability is embedded into cloud deployment standards, reference architectures, and day-to-day operational practices.
- Deploy all monitoring, observability, and infrastructure configurations using Terraform and related IaC tools.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices to ensure consistency, repeatability, and compliance.
- Build and support deployment automation using Jenkins, GitHub pipelines / GitHub Actions, landing zone pipelines, and Auto SDLC pipelines.
- Support pipeline-driven, secure, scalable, and repeatable deployments for infrastructure and monitoring solutions.
- Contribute to CI/CD processes for infrastructure, monitoring, and observability components.
- Maintain version-controlled infrastructure and deployment templates to support change management and auditability.
- Work within enterprise delivery models and landing zone deployment frameworks to align with organizational standards.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to continuously improve observability coverage, alert quality, and operational readiness.
Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience level aligned with a Level 4 technical operations role, with strong hands-on expertise in monitoring and observability.
- Strong experience designing and operating monitoring and observability solutions across public cloud platforms (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform).
- Proven experience with cloud-native monitoring tools and services offered by AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
- Experience integrating and managing third-party monitoring and observability tools in enterprise environments.
- Strong hands-on expertise with Terraform for infrastructure and monitoring configuration management.
- Deep understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts, patterns, and best practices.
- Experience working with Jenkins for CI/CD and automation of infrastructure and monitoring deployments.
- Experience with GitHub pipelines / GitHub Actions for automated builds, tests, and deployments.
- Familiarity with landing zone deployment models and Auto SDLC processes in large-scale cloud environments.
- Strong knowledge of hybrid cloud environments and multi-cloud architecture patterns.
- Solid understanding of performance monitoring, telemetry, and observability practices across distributed systems.
- Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex issues and drive incident resolution in production environments.
- Experience with one or more enterprise monitoring and observability platforms such as Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, New Relic, or AppDynamics.
- Ability to develop clear documentation, standards, and runbooks for operational teams.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills to work effectively with cross-functional technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience in mobile operations or related operations (tech) environments is a plus.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, enterprise-scale environment with complex, multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructures.
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Pay Range: $60 - $74/hour
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