AWS Cloud Full Stack Developer Cloud Watch

AWS Cloud Full Stack Developer Cloud Watch

Capstone Integrated Solutions is a comprehensive services provider. Our team consists of outstanding professionals, highly experienced in designing, building, and supporting retail software. We see ourselves as a build-as-a-service provider who follows a repeatable business pattern that can be applied to a variety of platforms and verticals. Having a culture built on outcomes and delivery at the core of the business, Capstone is providing its customers with a complete suite of services for software development, system analysis, integration, implementation, and support, as well as the option to engage a single team to perform all the services they require.

Who You Are and What You'll Do : Capstone Integrated Solutions is seeking a CloudWatch Implementation Engineer to lead the migration of application monitoring and observability from New Relic to AWS CloudWatch. This individual will be responsible for designing and building new CloudWatch dashboards, setting up relevant metrics and alarms, and collaborating closely with the client's development team to modify applications to publish telemetry and custom metrics directly to CloudWatch.

This role requires a strong mix of AWS CloudWatch expertise, application instrumentation experience, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities :

• Design & Build Dashboards
• Develop custom AWS CloudWatch dashboards for application performance, infrastructure health, and business KPIs.
• Define relevant metrics, dimensions, and alarms to ensure actionable insights and alerting.
• Migrate from New Relic
• Analyze existing New Relic dashboards, metrics, and alerting configurations.
• Develop a migration plan to reproduce or improve these insights using CloudWatch metrics and logs.
• Application Integration
• Collaborate with the client's development teams to modify applications to emit metrics, logs, and traces to CloudWatch.
• Implement custom metrics and structured logging (via CloudWatch Logs, CloudWatch Agent, and / or CloudWatch Embedded Metric Format).
• Automation & Configuration Management
• Use Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools (CloudFormation, Terraform, or CDK) to define and manage monitoring configurations.
• Automate dashboard and alarm deployments across multiple environments.
• Optimization & Best Practices
• Establish monitoring standards and best practices for consistent observability across applications and services.
• Optimize CloudWatch log retention, metric granularity, and cost efficiency.

Required Qualifications :

5+ years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, or cloud infrastructure roles.

Strong hands-on experience with AWS CloudWatch (dashboards, metrics, logs, alarms, and EMF).

Familiarity with New Relic or similar APM tools.

Experience instrumenting applications for telemetry and custom metrics (e.g., via CloudWatch SDK, OpenTelemetry, or custom agents).

Proficiency in at least one programming language (Python, Node.js, Java, or C#).

Experience with AWS services such as Lambda, ECS, EC2, CloudFormation, and IAM.

Solid understanding of CI / CD pipelines and integrating monitoring into deployment workflows.

Excellent communication skills and the ability to work closely with client development teams.

Preferred Qualifications :

Experience with OpenTelemetry and distributed tracing.

Familiarity with AWS Observability Accelerator or AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT).

Knowledge of logging and monitoring strategy across multi-account or multi-region AWS environments.

Experience developing reusable CloudWatch dashboard templates.

Key Deliverables :

Inventory and mapping of existing New Relic dashboards and metrics.

Documented migration plan with CloudWatch equivalents.

Fully functional CloudWatch dashboards and alerts for production and non-production environments.

Updated application instrumentation and logging configurations.

Knowledge transfer documentation and handoff to client operations / development teams.

"Our Culture" :

At Capstone, the central principles that we all adhere to, and the glue that holds us together, are our keystones. Our four keystones are :

"A Customer Obsessed, Delivery Focused, Culture"

We're driven to exceed our customers' expectations by listening, leading, solving problems, and delivering what we promise.

We aim to be the most dependable and trusted partner serving our customers. TRUST = CONSISTENCY x TIME

"A Culture of Learning and Sharing"

We value "Lifetime Learners"; those who are hungry, competitive, curious, and self-motivated in their pursuit of knowledge.

Personal and professional growth depends on teamwork and continuous learning. By sharing knowledge, skills, ideas, and effort, we benefit our customers, ourselves, and our communities.

We recognize that the thoughts, feelings, and backgrounds of others are as important as our own. Everyone has something to learn and everyone has something they can teach.

Knowledge and ability are valued. Sharing knowledge and helping others learn new capabilities is valued exponentially.

"A Culture of Growth and Scalability"

Growth comes from not establishing barriers in your role. "Cross functional skill sets are valued and help us deliver to our customers in a truly agile fashion. It comes with understanding that when asked to do something new, you will need support, have questions, and make some mistakes along the way.

The most elegant solution is a simple solution. Simple doesn't mean easy. It's often more difficult to break a complex problem down into simple, scalable terms. We don't appreciate, or value, over architected solutions or superfluous coding.

Time is one of our most precious commodities. Scalability implies being respectful of this and passionate about making the most efficient use of each and every one of our team members time.

"All Work is Strategic"

No matter how small a project or assignment appears, every single engagement is an opportunity for us to prove ourselves, build trust, and develop relationships that last and grow.

Every task, interaction, and commitment matters

Big or small, we execute our plans and strategies with focus, commitment, and passion.

We offer :

Job Type : Contract (4-6 weeks)

Benefits :

Remote work

Capstone Integrated Solutions is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace and celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive and safe environment for all employees. Experience comes in many forms, and we're dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team. We encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't perfectly align with what we have listed. We look forward to hearing from you.

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