Lead Site Reliability Engineer

EPAM Systems • New York, NY

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About The Position

We are seeking a specialized Observability & Infrastructure Engineer to lead the monitoring, telemetry, and platform-as-code initiatives critical to our multi-region disaster recovery roadmap. You will architect and implement robust observability pipelines, ensure deep visibility across our distributed AWS footprint, and codify our monitoring infrastructure using modern tools like Terraform, AWS CDK, and TypeScript.

Requirements

• AWS CDK & TypeScript for infrastructure provisioning and automation
• Agent & Cluster Agent deployment/management
• Monitors, Dashboards, Synthetics, and SLOs managed via Terraform
• Advanced constructs: Composite monitors, cardinality management, and retention controls
• OP2 / Vector (Observability Pipelines Worker)
• Log routing, enrichment, and redaction
• Splunk & GCP Pub/Sub sinks; OpenTelemetry standards
• CloudWatch metrics and alarms (Edge, ALB, CloudFront, Route 53, VPC Lattice)
• AWS Lambda runtime monitoring & performance tuning
• PagerDuty integration and alert-to-page wiring from Datadog

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and validate monitoring and telemetry strategies supporting our transition from single-region (us-east-1) to multi-region (us-east-2 pilot-light and future Active-Active) architectures
• Manage and automate Datadog configurations (Monitors, Dashboards, Synthetics, SLOs, and composite alerts) and AWS infrastructure using Terraform, AWS CDK, and TypeScript
• Architect and scale high-throughput telemetry ingest pipelines utilizing AWS Lambda, Amazon S3, Amazon Kinesis, and Firehose
• Implement and maintain log routing, enrichment, and redaction workflows using OP2 / Vector (Observability Pipelines Worker) alongside Splunk, GCP Pub/Sub sinks, and OpenTelemetry (OTel)
• Configure comprehensive CloudWatch metrics and alarms for edge, ALB, CloudFront, Route 53, and VPC Lattice, alongside Lambda runtime monitoring and Datadog-to-PagerDuty alert routing

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed