Enterprise tooling and Observability lead AWS

London - UK

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 3 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Tasks

Enterprise Tooling & Observability Lead - AWS

Location: London

2months with possible extension

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Enterprise Tooling & Observability Lead to drive the strategy design implementation and modernization of enterprise monitoring logging APM and operational tooling during and after largescale onprem to AWS cloud migrations.

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise across observability platforms infrastructure/application monitoring cloudnative operations and integration of enterprise tools into cloud architectures. This role ensures a seamless migration of tooling capabilities enhanced visibility and improved reliability in the AWS operating model.

Key Responsibilities

Tooling & Observability Strategy Across Migration Lifecycle

Define the end-to-end tooling & observability architecture that supports premigration migration and postmigration operations.
Assess current onprem tooling (monitoring logging APM ITSM event management) and define cloudaligned target tooling architecture for AWS.
Build a unified observability roadmap covering metrics logs traces dashboards SLO/SLA monitoring and event correlation.

MigrationAware Observability Design

Identify tooling gaps that may arise during the migration of applications networks storage and infrastructure.
Ensure instrumentation readiness for applications moving via lift & shift replatforming containerization and modernization.
Define observability patterns for hybrid connectivity multi-account AWS environments and multi-region workloads.

AWS Cloud-Native Observability Integration

Design and implement observability using AWS-native capabilities such as:
CloudWatch CloudTrail X-Ray VPC Flow Logs GuardDuty Security Hub
Integration with AWS Control Tower/Organizations for enterprise-wide visibility
Ensure seamless integration with thirdparty enterprise tools such as:
Datadog Dynatrace AppDynamics
Splunk/ELK
Prometheus/Grafana
ServiceNow Jira PagerDuty
Drive modernization of legacy monitoring solutions to cloud-native ecosystems.

Tooling Consolidation & Optimization

Evaluate existing tooling footprint and identify opportunities for consolidation cost reduction and simplification.
Standardize tooling patterns and create reusable templates/playbooks for AWS workloads.
Drive automation for alerting dashboards health checks and operational insights.

Reliability Performance & SRE Alignment

Collaborate with platform and SRE teams to enhance observability maturity (SLIs SLOs error budgets).
Build proactive monitoring capabilities to reduce incidents improve MTTR and support predictive operations.
Ensure the observability platform aligns with enterprise DR HA and performance engineering strategies.

Governance Security & Compliance

Ensure observability tooling adheres to enterprise security compliance data governance and access control policies.
Define auditready logging strategies and ensure endtoend traceability across hybrid and cloud environments.
Build governance models for event noise reduction alert hygiene and service mapping accuracy.

Leadership & Stakeholder Management

Lead cross-functional teams across application infrastructure cloud DevOps and security functions.
Serve as the primary SME for observability decisions guiding teams through architectural design and implementation.
Present observability strategy migration readiness platform health and maturity improvements to senior leadership.
Mentor engineers and drive capability uplift across the organization.

Requirements

Required Skills & Experience

Technical Expertise

14 years of experience in enterprise monitoring logging APM and observability tooling.
Strong understanding of AWS architecture cloudnative monitoring tools and hybrid observability.
Experience with:
APM platforms: Dynatrace AppDynamics Datadog
Logging platforms: Splunk ELK/Opensearch CloudWatch Logs
Metrics & telemetry: Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry
Event management: ServiceNow PagerDuty Moogsoft BigPanda
Strong knowledge of instrumentation for distributed systems microservices containers (EKS ECS) serverless workloads and legacy systems.

Migration & Architecture Skills

Proven experience supporting large-scale onprem to AWS migrations.
Deep understanding of migration patterns and observability dependencies.
Hands-on experience designing observability for multi-account AWS landing zones and multi-region architectures.

Preferred Qualifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect / Cloud Practitioner / DevOps Engineer
Certifications in observability platforms (Datadog Dynatrace Splunk etc.)
Knowledge of ITIL SRE principles and enterprise operational frameworks
Experience with automation using Python Terraform CloudFormation (nice-to-have)

TasksEnterprise Tooling & Observability Lead - AWSLocation: London2months with possible extensionRole OverviewWe are looking for an experienced Enterprise Tooling & Observability Lead to drive the strategy design implementation and modernization of enterprise monitoring logging APM and operational ...