Senior Cloud Engineer Observability Platform

Job Title: Senior Cloud Engineer Observability Platform
Location: Westlake, TX or Merrimack, NH (Onsite Required No Relocation)
Employment Type: Contract

Job Description

We are seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to join the Observability Platform team. The ideal candidate will have strong programming expertise, Kubernetes, and AWS experience. This role will contribute to building and supporting a new observability platform focused on metrics and traces, while driving platform enhancements, security, resiliency, and scalability.

You will be part of a collaborative team passionate about innovation, open-source, and cloud-native technologies, with opportunities to continuously learn and contribute to engineering excellence.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and support scalable observability platforms and services.

• Develop APIs and automation tools using Python (or Go/Java).

• Deploy and manage applications on AWS (EKS, EC2, Lambda, Step Functions, etc.).

• Work with Kubernetes and containerization technologies to build distributed systems.

• Implement CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CFT, CDK).

• Troubleshoot and optimize Linux-based systems and networking (DNS, Load Balancers, routing).

• Collaborate with team members in paired programming and code reviews.

Required Skills & Experience

• 5 years in deploying/supporting distributed, multi-tiered systems at scale.

• Hands-on programming with Python (Go or Java also acceptable).

• Strong experience with Kubernetes and AWS (EKS, EC2, Lambda).

• Experience with CI/CD (Jenkins) and infrastructure automation (Terraform, CFT, CDK).

• Knowledge of Linux systems, networking concepts, and containerization.

Nice to Have

• Observability tools experience (Datadog, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, OpenTelemetry).

• Experience with React or Node.js (frontend development).

• Cloud certifications (AWS preferred).

• Exposure to tracing/metrics frameworks (OTEL, Jaeger, FluentD, etc.).

Interview Process

• Technical Interview: Includes a paired programming exercise in the candidate s preferred language.

• Behavioral Interview: Conducted upon successful completion of the technical round.