Senior Site Reliability - Observability Specialist — Contract

My client is a leading hedge fund with a highly engineering-focused technology environment supporting quantitative research, trading and internal engineering services. They are expanding their AWS estate and are investing in the next generation of their cloud observability platform. I am looking for a senior engineer who can help shape and build this capability across AWS and EKS/Kubernetes.

This is a hands-on SRE / Platform Engineering role, focused on building scalable observability rather than simply creating dashboards.

The Role

You will help design and implement the standards, automation and infrastructure required to provide consistent observability across a large, multi-account AWS environment.

Key areas will include:

• Designing scalable telemetry collection and distribution across AWS and EKS.
• Developing standards for metrics, logs, alerting and telemetry.
• Building and integrating observability platforms, including storage, routing and retention.
• Working with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus-compatible tooling and cloud-native telemetry.
• Integrating observability with service ownership, inventory and PagerDuty.
• Creating automated onboarding and self-service capabilities for engineering teams.
• Applying observability standards to both new and existing cloud workloads.
• Automating repetitive operational processes and reducing engineering toil.
• Designing resilient architectures that avoid circular dependencies and remain diagnosable when the observability platform itself has issues.
• Working closely with Cloud, Platform, SRE and application engineering teams.