AWS Engineer [Zeal]

The role

You will design and implement observability strategies for applications, infrastructure, containers, and distributed systems in AWS. You will build monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting solutions while managing scalable AWS infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code.

What you will do

• Design and implement observability strategies for applications, infrastructure, containers, and distributed systems running in AWS.
• Build monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, and visualization solutions using AWS services.
• Instrument applications and services using OpenTelemetry and other modern observability standards and frameworks.
• Build meaningful dashboards, alerts, SLIs, and SLOs.
• Partner with other engineers to improve observability throughout the software development and deployment lifecycle.
• Design and manage scalable AWS infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code and cloud-native technologies.
• Analyze production incidents using metrics, logs, and distributed traces to identify root causes.
• Help clients improve performance, reliability, scalability, and cost-effectiveness of AWS environments.

Required qualifications

• Deep hands-on experience designing, building, and operating production environments in AWS across core infrastructure, networking, security, and container services.
• Strong experience designing observability solutions across metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerting, and application performance monitoring.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services such as CloudWatch, X-Ray, OpenSearch, Managed Prometheus, and Managed Grafana, along with OpenTelemetry and tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Dynatrace
• Experience defining SLIs, SLOs, and alerting strategies and using telemetry to troubleshoot incidents, perform root cause analysis, and improve system reliability.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and cloud-native technologies such as Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon ECS, or Amazon EKS.
• Strong scripting and automation skills using languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Nice to have

• Hold relevant AWS certifications, such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer
• Have experience designing observability solutions for large-scale distributed systems or microservices architectures.
• Have experience with SRE, incident management, production operations, or optimizing telemetry volume and observability costs at scale.
• Have a background working directly with clients in a consulting or professional services environment.

Before you apply

• Include a short note about yourself, a summary of your work experience, and a link to any public profiles you actively maintain.
• Hiring process may include a short preliminary phone interview, a series of video interviews, and a short take-home exercise.

About the company

Zeal is an AI-enabled software consultancy for Fortune 1000 companies and is part of Livefront. They are a values-driven technology company grounded in kindness, generosity, and integrity.