Lead SRE (AWS CloudWatch/AppSignals/ADOT/X-Ray) - 10+ Years - Dallas, TX Hybrid

Role: Lead SRE

Location: Dallas, TX Hybrid (2-3 days Onsite)

Lead SRE observability workstream focusing on AWS-native monitoring solutions, migrating from third-party tools (Datadog/Splunk) to AWS CloudWatch ecosystem. Design and implement comprehensive observability architecture using CloudWatch Metrics V2, AWS AppSignals, AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT), and AWS X-Ray. Establish enterprise-grade dashboards, alerting frameworks, and CloudFormation-based infrastructure automation for monitoring stack deployment.

Top Skills:

• Amazon CloudWatch Metrics V2
• AWS AppSignals
• AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT)
• AWS X-Ray

Role Scope & Key Responsibilities
Primary Responsibilities:

• Observability Migration Leadership: Lead migration from Datadog/Splunk to AWS CloudWatch Metrics V2, ensuring feature parity, cost optimization, and minimal disruption to monitoring capabilities
• Deep Metrics Integration: Implement advanced CloudWatch metrics collection from ZeHorizon platforms, custom application metrics, and infrastructure telemetry with enhanced resolution and dimensionality
• Distributed Tracing & APM: Design and deploy AWS X-Ray distributed tracing architecture integrated with ADOT (AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry) for end-to-end application performance monitoring
• AppSignals Implementation: Configure AWS AppSignals for automatic service-level objective (SLO) tracking, anomaly detection, and application health monitoring
• Dashboard & Alerting: Create CloudWatch dashboards with cross-service correlation, CloudWatch Alarms with composite alarms, and EventBridge-based alert routing to incident management systems
• Infrastructure as Code: Develop CloudFormation templates (CFT) for repeatable observability stack deployment across multi-account/multi-region environments
• Cost Optimization: Optimize CloudWatch costs through metric filtering, log retention policies, and efficient query patterns while maintaining observability coverage

Observability & Monitoring:

• Amazon CloudWatch: Expert-level proficiency in CloudWatch Metrics V2 (high-resolution metrics, metric math, anomaly detection), CloudWatch Logs (Logs Insights queries, subscription filters, metric filters), CloudWatch Alarms (composite alarms, alarm actions), and CloudWatch Dashboards (cross-account/cross-region dashboards, custom widgets)
• AWS X-Ray: Distributed tracing architecture, service maps, trace analysis, sampling rules, X-Ray SDK integration, and X-Ray daemon configuration
• AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT): ADOT Collector deployment (ECS/EKS/EC2), OpenTelemetry SDK instrumentation, exporters configuration (CloudWatch, X-Ray, Prometheus), and custom metric pipelines
• AWS AppSignals: Service-level objective (SLO) configuration, automatic instrumentation, anomaly detection, and application health scoring
• Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP): Prometheus-compatible metrics collection, PromQL queries, and Grafana integration (if hybrid monitoring required)
• Amazon Managed Grafana (AMG): Dashboard creation, data source integration (CloudWatch, AMP, X-Ray), and role-based access control

General Requirements

• 8+ years of relevant hands-on delivery experience at L6 scope
• Prior delivery in a large regulated enterprise environment, preferably financial services
• Ability to write architecture decision records, design documents, runbooks and test evidence for client Tech Risk review
• Strong stakeholder communication across engineering, security, operations, SRE and delivery teams

Regards,

pradeep(@)smg-llc(.)us