Senior Cloud Engineer, Observability

Role: Senior Cloud Engineer, Observability, within Bayer Crop Science, focusing on enhancing platform reliability through telemetry and monitoring. Responsibilities include managing observability toolchains (e.g., Datadog, CloudWatch), establishing standards for logs, metrics, and traces, and deploying 'golden paths' for consistent instrumentation. Key duties involve triaging platform requests, defining SLIs/SLOs, reducing MTTR, integrating observability into CI/CD workflows, and optimizing telemetry costs. The role emphasizes collaboration with delivery teams, Security, and Data units, mentorship, and measurement of observability KPIs. Requirements: Bachelor’s in CS/engineering or equivalent, 5+ years AWS experience in production environments, deep expertise with Datadog/CloudWatch, designing actionable alerts, proficiency with IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), programming skills (Python/Go), and a solid understanding of cloud architecture. Preferred skills include productizing observability standards, managing scale with platforms like ELK/OpenSearch, containerization (ECS/EKS), AWS data services, FinOps related to telemetry costs, relevant AWS certifications, and strong communication. The work setup is location-flexible across the U.S., with a salary range of approximately $130k-$180k plus benefits.