Senior AWS Engineer – Observability & Monitoring (CloudWatch | Python | CI/CD)

7 - 9 Years
2 Openings
Kochi, Trivandrum

We are seeking an experienced Senior AWS Engineer to design, implement, and optimize end-to-end observability solutions across multiple AWS-based systems. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in AWS CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray, Lambda monitoring, and infrastructure-as-code practices, combined with a strong understanding of service-level objectives (SLOs/SLAs) and ing integrations such as OpsGenie or PagerDuty.

This role is pivotal in shaping our observability strategy and mentoring junior engineers in building reliable, data-driven monitoring systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement a comprehensive CloudWatch alarm and monitoring strategy across 13 AWS solutions.
• Define and operationalize SLOs/SLAs for critical business workflows and services.
• Instrument application code with custom metrics using Python and Embedded Metric Format (EMF) where visibility gaps exist.
• Validate and enhance AWS X-Ray implementation to ensure full traceability and performance insight.
• Create and maintain ing and escalation workflows using OpsGenie (or PagerDuty).
• Optimize existing CloudWatch dashboards (e.g., doc-manager, state-machine) and build new dashboards for remaining solutions.
• Employ CloudFormation (or equivalent IaC tools) to manage and automate observability resources.
• Mentor junior engineers, promoting best practices in observability, monitoring automation, and performance analysis.

Required Skills & Expertise

• Advanced proficiency with AWS CloudWatch (alarms, dashboards, metrics, Logs Insights).
• Strong understanding of AWS Lambda monitoring and optimization techniques.
• Hands-on experience with AWS X-Ray for distributed tracing and performance debugging.
• Expertise in CloudFormation or Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) frameworks for observability infrastructure.
• Proficiency in Python, especially for custom metric instrumentation and automation.
• Knowledge of EMF (Embedded Metric Format) for structured metric data.
• Proven experience defining and implementing SLOs/SLAs.
• Familiarity with OpsGenie or PagerDuty for ing and incident management workflows.

AWS, Cloudwatch, Lambda, Cloud Formation, Python