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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # AWS Solution Architect - **Company:** FSTONE Technologies - **Location:** Dallas, TX, United States - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Data Analysis, Application Performance Management, Configuration Management, Software Design Documents, DevOps, Monitoring of Systems, Identity and Access Management, Issue Tracking Systems, Network Security, Automation of Marketing, Pattern Recognition, PCI Data Security Standards, Role-Based Access Control, Reliability Engineering, Prometheus, Runbook, Datadog, AWS Cdk, Data Logging, Chatbots, Grafana, AWS Lambda, Firewalls (Computer Science), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Cloudformation, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Integration Frameworks, Api Design, Cloudwatch, Kibana, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Splunk, Dynatrace, Serverless Computing, Pagerduty - **Published:** August 20, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/1c3d20f2-dfbc-45ea-bf56-9f13e5a15346 ## About the Role * Large regulated financial-services delivery with formal change-control, audit and risk governance * Operational resilience expectations including RTO/RPO, multi-region DR and evidence for audit review * Awareness of applicable controls and regulations such as DORA, NIST CSF 2.0, PCI DSS, SEC cyber rules, RegSCI and SIFMU/FMI expectations where relevant * Ability to create Tech Risk-ready documentation including ADRs, runbooks, design docs, threat models and validation evidence * Clear communication with client engineering, security, SRE, data and platform stakeholders as an embedded SME Certifications / Qualifications * AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate / Professional * AWS Certified Developer - Associate * AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional preferred ## Description Lead SRE observability workstream focusing on AWS-native monitoring solutions, migrating from third-party tools (Datadog/Splunk) to AWS CloudWatch ecosystem. Design and implement comprehensive observability architecture using CloudWatch Metrics V2, AWS AppSignals, AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT), and AWS X-Ray. Establish enterprise-grade dashboards, alerting frameworks, and CloudFormation-based infrastructure automation for monitoring stack deployment., * Observability Migration Leadership: Lead migration from Datadog/Splunk to AWS CloudWatch Metrics V2, ensuring feature parity, cost optimization, and minimal disruption to monitoring capabilities * Deep Metrics Integration: Implement advanced CloudWatch metrics collection from ZeHorizon platforms, custom application metrics, and infrastructure telemetry with enhanced resolution and dimensionality * Distributed Tracing & APM: Design and deploy AWS X-Ray distributed tracing architecture integrated with ADOT (AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry) for end-to-end application performance monitoring * AppSignals Implementation: Configure AWS AppSignals for automatic service-level objective (SLO) tracking, anomaly detection, and application health monitoring * Dashboard & Alerting: Create CloudWatch dashboards with cross-service correlation, CloudWatch Alarms with composite alarms, and EventBridge-based alert routing to incident management systems * Infrastructure as Code: Develop CloudFormation templates (CFT) for repeatable observability stack deployment across multi-account/multi-region environments * Cost Optimization: Optimize CloudWatch costs through metric filtering, log retention policies, and efficient query patterns while maintaining observability coverage Key Deliverables: * Migration runbooks from Datadog/Splunk to CloudWatch ecosystem * ADOT Collector configurations for custom metrics and traces * CloudWatch dashboard templates for application and infrastructure monitoring * CloudFormation templates for observability stack automation * Alert escalation policies and runbook automation * Cost optimization recommendations and implementation AWS Skills & Services (added) Observability & Monitoring: * Amazon CloudWatch: Expert-level proficiency in CloudWatch Metrics V2 (high-resolution metrics, metric math, anomaly detection), CloudWatch Logs (Logs Insights queries, subscription filters, metric filters), CloudWatch Alarms (composite alarms, alarm actions), and CloudWatch Dashboards (cross-account/cross-region dashboards, custom widgets) * AWS X-Ray: Distributed tracing architecture, service maps, trace analysis, sampling rules, X-Ray SDK integration, and X-Ray daemon configuration * AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT): ADOT Collector deployment (ECS/EKS/EC2), OpenTelemetry SDK instrumentation, exporters configuration (CloudWatch, X-Ray, Prometheus), and custom metric pipelines * AWS AppSignals: Service-level objective (SLO) configuration, automatic instrumentation, anomaly detection, and application health scoring * Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP): Prometheus-compatible metrics collection, PromQL queries, and Grafana integration (if hybrid monitoring required) * Amazon Managed Grafana (AMG): Dashboard creation, data source integration (CloudWatch, AMP, X-Ray), and role-based access control Logging & Analytics: * CloudWatch Logs Insights: Advanced query syntax, saved queries, query visualization, and log pattern analysis * Amazon OpenSearch Service: Centralized log aggregation (if replacing Splunk), index management, and Kibana dashboards * AWS CloudTrail: API activity monitoring, CloudTrail Insights for anomaly detection, and integration with CloudWatch Logs Alerting & Incident Management: * Amazon EventBridge: Event-driven alerting, custom event patterns, cross-account event routing, and integration with incident management tools (PagerDuty, Opsgenie) * Amazon SNS: Multi-channel alert notifications (email, SMS, Lambda, SQS), topic subscriptions, and message filtering * AWS Chatbot: Slack/Microsoft Teams integration for alert notifications and interactive runbook execution Infrastructure as Code & Automation: * AWS CloudFormation: StackSets for multi-account deployments, nested stacks, custom resources, and drift detection for observability infrastructure * AWS CDK: Programmatic infrastructure definition for complex observability patterns * AWS Systems Manager: Parameter Store for configuration management, Automation documents for remediation runbooks, and OpsCenter for incident tracking Container & Compute Monitoring: * Amazon ECS/EKS: Container Insights, ADOT sidecar deployment, service mesh observability (AWS App Mesh), and pod-level metrics * AWS Lambda: Lambda Insights, custom CloudWatch metrics from Lambda functions, and X-Ray tracing for serverless applications * Amazon EC2: CloudWatch agent configuration, custom metrics publishing, and Systems Manager integration Networking & Security: * Amazon VPC: VPC Flow Logs analysis, network performance monitoring, and Transit Gateway metrics * AWS Network Firewall: Firewall logs integration with CloudWatch, alert rules for security events * AWS IAM: Fine-grained access control for CloudWatch resources, cross-account monitoring roles, and service-linked roles * Cost Management: * AWS Cost 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