Senior Cloud Engineer, Observability (Residence Based, Residence Based, US)

Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:

Required:

• 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
• Strong proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform; CloudFormation a plus).
• Strong programming for automation/tooling (Python, Go, or similar).
• Solid grasp of cloud architecture, networking, and security fundamentals.
• Experience productizing observability enablement (templates, golden paths, standards, onboarding workflows).
• CI/CD at scale (GitLab pipelines), including integrating reliability/telemetry guardrails into delivery workflows.
• Logging/telemetry platforms beyond CloudWatch/Datadog (e.g., ELK/OpenSearch) and experience managing scale concerns (volume, retention, cardinality).
• Container platforms (ECS/EKS) and common AWS data services (RDS/Aurora, S3/lake patterns, MSK/Kinesis).
• FinOps experience related to observability (tagging, allocation, optimizing telemetry cost).
• Relevant AWS certifications and excellent communication skills.

Employees can expect to be paid a salary of approximately $130k-180k. Additional compensation may include a bonus or incentive program (if relevant). Additional benefits include health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, sick leave, etc.. This salary (or salary range) is merely an estimate and may vary based on an applicant’s location, market data/ranges, an applicant’s skills and prior relevant experience, certain degrees and certifications, and other relevant factors.

This posting will be available for application until at least 10/12/26.