AWS Monitoring & Observability Engineer

Key Responsibilities

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.

Technical Skills Required

AWS Services

Strong 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
• AWS X-Ray (preferred)
• Monitoring and observability best practices

Infrastructure as Code

• Terraform (mandatory)
• CloudFormation (preferred)
• Git
• CI/CD integration

Security

Working knowledge of:

• AWS Security Hub
• AWS GuardDuty
• AWS Well-Architected Framework
• AWS Security Best Practices

Good to have Qualifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate/Professional
• Terraform Associate Certification
• Experience implementing enterprise monitoring platforms
• Experience supporting multi-account AWS environments