What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cloud Monitoring & Observability Engineer position at IT Trailblazers, LLC.?
Role Summary
- Responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting monitoring and observability solutions across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform
- Focus on cloud-native monitoring, third-party monitoring tools, and end-to-end observability
- Support complex multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments
- Ensure all infrastructure and monitoring deployments are implemented through Terraform, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and automated pipelines
- Work within enterprise delivery models using Jenkins, GitHub pipelines, landing zone pipelines, and Auto SDLC
Design and manage monitoring and observability solutions for public cloud environments
- Build and support cloud-native monitoring solutions using native tools available in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform
- Integrate and manage third-party monitoring and observability platforms
- Create and maintain:
- Dashboards
- Alerts
- Reports
- Health checks
- Service visibility frameworks
- Collect and analyze:
- Metrics
- Logs
- Traces
- Events
- Telemetry
- Perform proactive issue detection, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis
- Support performance monitoring, capacity planning, availability monitoring, and incident response
- Collaborate with cloud, platform, security, and operations teams
- Develop operational standards, documentation, and runbooks
- Ensure observability is embedded into cloud deployment standards and operational practices
Automation / DevOps Responsibilities
- Deploy all monitoring, observability, and infrastructure configurations using Terraform
- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices
- Build and support deployment automation through:
- Jenkins
- GitHub pipelines / GitHub Actions
- Landing zone pipelines
- Auto SDLC pipelines
- Support pipeline-driven, secure, scalable, and repeatable deployments
- Contribute to CI/CD processes for infrastructure and monitoring solutions
- Maintain version-controlled infrastructure and deployment templates
Required Skills and Experience
- Strong experience in monitoring and observability
- Strong experience with public cloud platforms across:
- AWS
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform)
- Experience with cloud-native monitoring tools
- Experience with third-party monitoring and observability tools
- Strong hands-on expertise with Terraform
- Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code
- Experience with:
- Jenkins
- GitHub pipelines / GitHub Actions
- Landing zone deployment models
- Auto SDLC processes
- Strong knowledge of:
- Hybrid cloud environments
- Multi-cloud architecture
- Performance monitoring
- Telemetry and observability practices
- Strong troubleshooting and incident resolution skills
Preferred Monitoring / Observability Tool Experience
- Experience with one or more of the following:
- Datadog
- Dynatrace
- Splunk
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- New Relic
- AppDynamics
Salary : $70 - $74