Advisor-Cloud & Observability Engineer
Fannie Mae2 days ago
Base Salary
$155k - $209k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provide architectural leadership and technical guidance for enterprise platforms and AWS-focused cloud-native solutions.
- Define observability architecture patterns and standards across applications, platforms, and infrastructure.
- Guide engineering teams in implementing metrics, logging, distributed tracing, dashboards, alerting, telemetry, and service health monitoring.
- Advise on OpenTelemetry adoption and distributed tracing implementation.
- Evaluate architectures and identify improvements to reliability, scalability, operational visibility, performance, availability, and supportability.
- Translate business and functional requirements into scalable architectures balancing resiliency, security, cost, performance, and operations.
- Collaborate with application, platform, cloud, security, and operations teams on reusable patterns and governance processes.
- Assess emerging cloud architecture, observability, telemetry, and application performance monitoring technologies and practices.
- Create architecture documentation, reference architectures, technical standards, and implementation recommendations.
- Communicate architectural decisions, trade-offs, and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders across multiple teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor's level degree is required.
- At least 6 years of experience in technology, software engineering, cloud engineering, platform engineering, or solution/enterprise architecture.
- Experience designing or supporting cloud solutions with significant Amazon Web Services exposure.
- Experience developing architecture patterns and providing technical guidance across multiple engineering teams.
- Working knowledge of observability concepts including metrics, logging, distributed tracing, dashboards, alerting, and telemetry.
- Familiarity with OpenTelemetry and distributed tracing concepts.
- Experience designing or evaluating distributed, cloud-native, microservices, or event-driven architectures.
- Strong understanding of application resiliency, scalability, performance, availability, and operational support considerations.
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts and architecture decisions to engineering teams, technology leaders, and business stakeholders.
- Listed qualifications include Active Directory, Atlassian JIRA, CyberArk, authentication management, backup and recovery software, configuration management, cybersecurity analysis, data analysis, and cloud technology.
Benefits
- The role is generally expected to work onsite regularly at the designated office, with the in-office cadence determined by the manager; reasonable commuting proximity is preferred unless the role is designated remote.
- Eligible employees may participate in a Fannie Mae incentive program.
- Fannie Mae offers health, life, voluntary lifestyle, and other benefits and wellness-related perks.
About Fannie Mae
Fannie Mae is a U.S. government‑sponsored enterprise that provides liquidity to housing finance by buying mortgages from lenders, packaging them into mortgage‑backed securities, and guaranteeing their credit risk. It serves banks, mortgage companies, and institutional investors rather than originating loans itself. Chartered in 1938 and headquartered in Washington, DC, the company has operated under Federal Housing Finance Agency conservatorship since 2008.