AWS Engineer - Lead, Serverless & Observability

InnovateNow; Albany (GA); On-site; USD 68,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

InnovateNow in Albany, GA seeks an AWS Engineer who treats latency budgets like personal grudges and speaks Datadog fluently. If you’ve got about 3 years of hands-on AWS experience and want a technology team that lets you lead, this role could be your next home.

You’ll hunt latency spikes, harden Istio auth for GA audits, integrate third‑party services and internal tools, monitor production health, and document the Serverless setup so the next engineer can onboard in days rather than weeks.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of AWS engineering experience.
• Ability to lead a technology team and own initiatives.
• Experience with AWS services and cloud-based architectures.
• Strong written and verbal communication under scrutiny.
• Comfort in a fast-paced, flat environment.

Responsibilities

• Hunt down latency spikes and troubleshoot performance issues.
• Harden Istio authentication to pass GA audits.
• Integrate third-party services and internal tools into the InnovateNow stack.
• Monitor system health and set up production alerting.
• Document the Serverless system to accelerate onboarding.
• Wrangle Serverless configuration so Albany staging mirrors production.

Skills

Communication

Fast-paced work

Written tone

Fire drill judgment

Part-time schedules

Tools

Datadog

Istio

Serverless

Job description

InnovateNow in Albany, GA seeks an AWS Engineer who treats latency budgets like personal grudges and speaks Datadog fluently. If you’ve got about 3 years of hands-on AWS experience and want a technology team that lets you lead, this role could be your next home.

You’ll hunt latency spikes, harden Istio auth for GA audits, integrate third‑party services and internal tools, monitor production health, and document the Serverless setup so the next engineer can onboard in days rather than weeks.