Observability & Infra Lead (Multi-Region)

EPAM Systems; New York (NY); Remote; USD 145,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance (

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare

Disability Insurance

Life Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

LinkedIn Learning solutions

Matched 401(k)

Paid Time Off 15–25 days

Paid Holidays

Job summary

EPAM is seeking an Observability & Infrastructure Engineer to lead monitoring, telemetry, and platform-as-code initiatives across a multi-region AWS footprint. You will architect and implement robust observability pipelines, ensure deep visibility, and codify monitoring infrastructure using Terraform, AWS CDK, and TypeScript.

This role emphasizes disaster recovery readiness, log routing, and alert orchestration with Vector, OpenTelemetry, and CloudWatch, while enabling seamless Datadog to

Qualifications

• 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).
• Lambda runtime monitoring and performance tuning.
• PagerDuty integration and alert-to-page wiring from Datadog.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and validate monitoring and telemetry strategies for multi-region architectures.
• Manage and automate Datadog configurations and AWS infrastructure via Terraform, CDK, and TypeScript.
• Architect high-throughput telemetry ingest pipelines using Lambda, S3, Kinesis, and Firehose.
• Implement log routing, enrichment, and redaction using OP2/Vector, Splunk, and OpenTelemetry.
• Configure CloudWatch metrics/alarms and Datadog-to-PagerDuty alert routing.

Skills

Observability

Telemetry

Cloud infrastructure design

Multi-region DR

Automation scripting

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

TypeScript

Datadog

OpenTelemetry

Splunk

Vector

Synthetics

CloudWatch

PagerDuty

Job description

EPAM is seeking an Observability & Infrastructure Engineer to lead monitoring, telemetry, and platform-as-code initiatives across a multi-region AWS footprint. You will architect and implement robust observability pipelines, ensure deep visibility, and codify monitoring infrastructure using Terraform, AWS CDK, and TypeScript.

This role emphasizes disaster recovery readiness, log routing, and alert orchestration with Vector, OpenTelemetry, and CloudWatch, while enabling seamless Datadog to