AWS Monitoring & DevOps Engineer

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced AWS Monitoring & DevOps Engineer to support enterprise monitoring platforms and AWS-based production environments. This role will focus on improving system reliability, monitoring, alerting, automation, and operational visibility across enterprise applications and cloud infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience with AWS, Datadog, infrastructure automation, and production support in large-scale enterprise environments. This position requires close collaboration with DevOps, development, and operations teams to maintain stable and high-performing systems.

Requirements

• 10+ years of overall IT experience
• 4+ years of hands-on AWS production support experience
• Strong experience with Datadog monitoring and logging platforms
• Experience with BigPanda or similar event management tools
• Strong knowledge of AWS services including EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Cognito, and CloudFormation
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and source control tools such as Git or SVN
• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience using Ansible or similar configuration management tools
• Strong scripting experience with JavaScript or TypeScript
• Excellent troubleshooting skills across infrastructure, applications, and networks
• AWS SysOps Certification preferred
• Experience supporting Windows Server and IIS environments
• Strong communication and collaboration skills

Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain enterprise monitoring platforms including Datadog and BigPanda
• Support and maintain AWS-based production systems and infrastructure
• Improve monitoring, alerting, logging, and operational visibility across environments
• Monitor application availability, latency, system health, and overall performance
• Build dashboards and reporting for performance, stability, and cloud cost optimization
• Develop automation scripts and infrastructure solutions within AWS environments
• Support production incidents, outages, troubleshooting, and escalations
• Collaborate with DevOps, engineering, and operations teams on system improvements
• Maintain infrastructure reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency
• Mentor junior engineers and share operational best practices with the team

Technologies & Skills

Benefits

• Competitive hourly compensation
• Long-term contract opportunity
• Hybrid work flexibility
• Opportunity to work in a large enterprise cloud environment
• Exposure to modern DevOps and monitoring technologies
• Collaborative and high-impact engineering team