Cloud Observability Platform Engineer (Contractor)

The role

This role involves designing and building standard cloud observability patterns for AWS and EKS. You will build telemetry collection, storage, and alerting at scale across a multi-account AWS estate.

What you will do

• Help design and build the standard cloud observability patterns for AWS and EKS.
• Build telemetry collection and distribution at scale across a large, multi-account AWS estate.
• Translate AWS telemetry into patterns that integrate with existing metrics, logs and alerting platforms.
• Deploy observability components and patterns that avoid circular dependencies.
• Integrate cloud telemetry with inventory and service ownership data.
• Build or integrate logs, metrics and alerting platforms.
• Support retrospective deployment of observability standards across an existing cloud estate.
• Build repeatable onboarding patterns for new cloud workloads.
• Build user configuration automation for alert rules, scrape targets, dashboards and standard patterns.
• Reduce operational toil through automation, standardisation and clear platform patterns.

Required qualifications

• Previously built or significantly expanded cloud observability capabilities in production environments.
• Comfortable working across infrastructure, cloud, Kubernetes, telemetry, automation and people.

Nice to have

• Experience with VictoriaMetrics, VictoriaLogs, Alertmanager, Terraform, Python, Go or similar tooling

About the company

Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is a technology and data-driven quantitative investment manager. They build systems that directly support research, trading and engineering activity.