Data Observability Engineer

Openkyber; United States; On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Reporter Newspapers is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer in Irvine, CA (Hybrid) for a long-term engagement. The role focuses on building and maintaining distributed systems with AWS, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes, and security best practices.

You will contribute to secure, scalable cloud infrastructure, mentor junior engineers, and collaborate across teams to improve reliability, cost efficiency, and performance in a hybrid work model in Southern California.

Qualifications

• Must have strong AWS experience with EKS, EC2, VPC/Networking, IAM, S3, RDS, and Lambda.
• Proficiency with Terraform for modules, state management, and policy-as-code.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Harness; strong REST API integration.

Skills

AWS Cloud

Distributed systems

Security best practices

Systems reliability

Mentorship

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Harness

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Title: Senior Cloud Platform Engineer Location: Irvine, CA (Hybrid) Duration: Long Term Exp: 10 Years Visa: USC, GC . Technical Skills

Key Competencies

• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving across distributed systems
• Ability to translate operational issues into durable platform improvements
• Systems-thinking approach to reliability, security, and cost
• Effective collaboration and technical mentorship across engineering teams

Must Have:

• Cloud: AWS (EKS, EC2, VPC/Networking, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda)
• IaC: Terraform (modules, state management, policy-as-code)
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Harness
• APIs & Integration: REST APIs (design, development, integration), Async APIs
• Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS)
• Security: OAuth, OIDC, OKTA, SSL/TLS, IAM, secrets management

Desired:

• Event Streaming: Kafka, Confluent (topics, schemas, Kafka Connect, cluster linking)
• Monitoring/Observability: Datadog, CloudWatch
• Programming/Scripting: Java/Python