Observability Platform Engineer — Cloud Reliability

Bayer CropScience Limited; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Bayer Crop Science is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer focused on Observability to advance our production telemetry, dashboards, and alerting across multiple services. You will define and enforce standards for logging, metrics, tracing, and dashboards.

The role emphasizes building reusable templates, reducing MTTR, and partnering with Security/Compliance to ensure auditability. Residence‑based, multiple US locations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in computer science/engineering or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years hands‑on AWS experience operating production workloads.
• Deep practical experience with observability in production, including Datadog and/or CloudWatch (dashboards, monitors/alerts, log search, correlation).
• Designing actionable alerts (noise reduction, ownership, runbook‑first alerts).
• Defining/using SLIs/SLOs and reliability metrics to drive behavior.

Responsibilities

• Be the hands‑on SME for our observability toolchain (Datadog, CloudWatch, OpenSearch), including log pipelines, tracing/telemetry standards, and platform templates.
• Run office hours, produce exemplars, and pair with teams to implement canonical instrumentation and alerting.
• Triage and resolve observability‑related platform requests (new service onboarding, log/metric gaps, noisy alerts, dashboard standards) with clear ownership and measurable outcomes.
• Maintain and extend golden paths for logging, metrics, tracing and dashboards.
• Embed observability checks into CI/CD and platform workflows and partner with Security/Compliance.

Skills

AWS

Observability

Datadog

CloudWatch

Terraform

Python

Education

Bachelor's in CS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

OpenSearch

Job description

Bayer Crop Science is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer focused on Observability to advance our production telemetry, dashboards, and alerting across multiple services. You will define and enforce standards for logging, metrics, tracing, and dashboards.

The role emphasizes building reusable templates, reducing MTTR, and partnering with Security/Compliance to ensure auditability. Residence‑based, multiple US locations.