About this role
<p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>At Bayer we’re visionaries, driven to solve the world’s toughest challenges and striving for a world where 'Health for all Hunger for none’ is no longer a dream, but a real possibility. We’re doing it with energy, curiosity and sheer dedication, always learning from unique perspectives of those around us, expanding our thinking, growing our capabilities and redefining ‘impossible’. There are so many reasons to join us. If you’re hungry to build a varied and meaningful career in a community of brilliant and diverse minds to make a real difference, there’s only one choice.</strong></span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:28.0px;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Senior Cloud Engineer, Observability</strong> </span></p> <p> </p><div> <div> <div> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">As Bayer Crop Science’s digital farming arm, we advance regenerative agriculture and technology breakthroughs using agronomic science, data science, engineering, and real-world farming experience. Our shared AWS platform enables hundreds of engineers to ship secure, reliable software faster. </span></p> <p> </p> </div> <div> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">We’re looking for an entrepreneurial builder who treats <strong>observability as a product</strong>: paved roads for telemetry, opinionated patterns for dashboards/alerts, and a relentless focus on improving signal quality and reducing time-to-detect/time-to-recover. You’ll partner with delivery teams, Security, and Data to standardize how we instrument services, monitor reliability, and learn from production. </span></p> </div> </div> <div> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"> </span></p> </div> <div> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt">YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES </span></strong></span></p> </div> <div> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">The primary responsibilities of this role are: </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></p> </div> <div> <div> <div> <p><span style="text-decoration:underline;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Observability Enablement & Support (Primary Focus) </span></p> </div> <div> <ul style="list-style-type:disc"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Be the hands-on SME for our observability toolchain (e.g., Datadog, CloudWatch, OpenSearch), including log pipelines, tracing/telemetry standards, and platform templates. </span></p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul style="list-style-type:disc"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Run office hours, produce exemplars, and pair with teams to implement “known-good” instrumentation and alerting. </span></p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul style="list-style-type:disc"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Triage and resolve observability-related platform requests (new service onboarding, log/metric gaps, noisy alerts, dashboard standards) with clear ownership and measurable outcomes. </span></p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul style="list-style-type:disc"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Establish and operationalize SLIs/SLOs for key platform components and enable teams to define service SLOs without reinventing the wheel. </span></p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <p> </p> <p><span style="text-decoration:underline;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Own Observability Paved Roads & Golden Paths </span></p> </div> <div> <ul style="list-style-type:disc"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Maintain opinionated “golden paths” for: </span></p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul> <li style="list-style-type:none;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <ul style="list-style-type:circle"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Logging (standard fields/tags, retention, routing, searchability) </span></p> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul> <li style="list-style-type:none;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <ul style="list-style-type:circle"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Metrics (naming conventions, cardinality guardrails, standard RED/USE views) </span></p> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul> <li style="list-style-type:none;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <ul style="list-style-type:circle"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Tracing (service maps, critical spans, propagation standards) </span></p> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul> <li style="list-style-type:none;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <ul style="list-style-type:circle"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dashboards (starter dashboards by service type + curated views for platform reliability) </span></p> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul style="list-style-type:disc"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Provide reusable templates for alerting patterns (latency, error-rate, saturation, dependency failures), tuned for actionable paging vs. noise. </span></p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <p> </p> <p><span style="text-decoration:underline;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Reliability Outcomes (Through Signals, Not Heroics) </span></p> </div> </div> <div> <div> <ul style="list-style-type:disc"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Reduce MTTR by improving detection, triage paths, runbooks, and “what changed” visibility. </span></p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul style="list-style-type:disc"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Drive reliability reviews focused on observability gaps: missing signals, unclear ownership, bad alerts, and uninstrumented failure modes. </span></p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul style="list-style-type:disc"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Partner with delivery teams to turn recurring incidents into durable fixes (instrumentation + alerting + automation + documentation). </span></p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <p> </p> <p><span style="text-decoration:underline;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Observability + DevSecOps Integration </span></p> </div> <div> <ul style="list-style-type:disc"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Embed observability checks into CI/CD and platform workflows (e.g., telemetry guardrails, dashboard/monitor templates, logging standards checks). </span></p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul style="list-style-type:disc"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Partner with Security/Compliance to ensure telemetry supports auditability and incident investigation without ad-hoc effort. </span></p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <p> </p> <p><span style="text-decoration:underline;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Measure, Learn, Iterate (Ownership Mindset) </span></p> </div> <div> <ul style="list-style-type:disc"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Define and report platform observability KPIs: alert noise rate, % actionable alerts, MTTA/MTTR trends, onboarding time to “fully observable,” runbook coverage, incident recurrence. </span></p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul style="list-style-type:disc"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Run lightweight experiments to improve signal quality (threshold tuning, monitor redesign, dashboard UX), and ship improvements like a product owner. </span></p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <p> </p> <p><span style="text-decoration:underline;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Cost Stewardship for Telemetry (FinOps-Aware Observability) </span></p> </div> <div> <ul style="list-style-type:disc"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Create cost-aware telemetry standards (log volume controls, metric cardinality guidance, sampling strategies, retention tiers). </span></p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul style="list-style-type:disc"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Help teams optimize spend while improving reliability outcomes (“cheaper + better” logging/metrics patterns). </span></p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <p> </p> <p><span style="text-decoration:underline;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Collaboration & Mentorship </span></p> </div> <div> <ul style="list-style-type:disc"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Serve as a trusted partner to delivery units, Security, and Data—turning pain points into paved-road improvements. </span></p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul style="list-style-type:disc"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Mentor engineers and uplift organizational practices for incident response, reliability signals, and operational excellence. </span></p> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div> <div> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"> </span></p> </div> <div> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt">WHO YOU ARE </span></strong></span></p> </div> <div> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following: </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></p> </div> <div> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Required:</span></p> <div> <div> <ul style="list-style-type:disc"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Bachelor’s in computer science/engineering or equivalent experience. </span></p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul style="list-style-type:disc"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">5+ years hands-on AWS experience operating production workloads. </span></p> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div> <div> <ul style="list-style-type:disc"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Deep practical experience with observability in production, including: </span></p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul> <li style="list-style-type:none;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <ul style="list-style-type:circle"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Datadog and/or CloudWatch (dashboards, monitors/alerts, log search, correlation) </span></p> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul> <li style="list-style-type:none;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <ul style="list-style-type:circle"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Designing actionable alerts (noise reduction, ownership, runbook-first alerts) </span></p> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul> <li style="list-style-type:none;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <ul style="list-style-type:circle"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Defining/using SLIs/SLOs and reliability metrics to drive behavior </span></p> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul style="list-style-type:disc"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Strong proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform; CloudFormation a plus). </span></p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul style="list-style-type:disc"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Strong programming for automation/tooling (Python, Go, or similar). </span></p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul style="list-style-type:disc"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Solid grasp of cloud architecture, networking, and security fundamentals. </span></p> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></p> </div> <div> </div> </div> <div> <div> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Preferred:</span></p> <div> <ul style="list-style-type:disc"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Experience productizing observability enablement (templates, golden paths, standards, onboarding workflows). </span></p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul style="list-style-type:disc"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">CI/CD at scale (GitLab pipelines), including integrating reliability/telemetry guardrails into delivery workflows. </span></p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul style="list-style-type:disc"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Logging/telemetry platforms beyond CloudWatch/Datadog (e.g., ELK/OpenSearch) and experience managing scale concerns (volume, retention, cardinality). </span></p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul style="list-style-type:disc"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Container platforms (ECS/EKS) and common AWS data services (RDS/Aurora, S3/lake patterns, MSK/Kinesis). </span></p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul style="list-style-type:disc"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">FinOps experience related to observability (tagging, allocation, optimizing telemetry cost). </span></p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul style="list-style-type:disc"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Relevant AWS certifications and excellent communication skills. </span></p> </li> </ul> </div> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></p> </div> <div> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">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. </span></p> </div> <div> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"> </span></p> </div> <div> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">This posting will be available for application until at least 6/30/26. </span></p> </div> </div><table style="width:970.0px" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="vertical-align:top" colspan="4"> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="vertical-align:top" colspan="4"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:16.0px">YOUR APPLICATION</span></strong></span></td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="vertical-align:top" colspan="4"> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table style="width:970.0px" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="text-align:justify;vertical-align:top" colspan="4"> <p><span style="font-size:14.0px;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Bayer offers a wide variety of competitive compensation and benefits programs. If you meet the requirements of this unique opportunity, and want to impact our mission Science for a better life, we encourage you to apply now. Be part of something bigger. Be you. Be Bayer. <br>To all recruitment agencies: Bayer does not accept unsolicited third party resumes.<br> <br>Bayer is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veterans<br> <br>Bayer is committed to providing access and reasonable accommodations in its application process for individuals with disabilities and encourages applicants with disabilities to request any needed accommodation(s) using the contact information below. </span></p> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:justify;vertical-align:top" colspan="4"> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:justify;vertical-align:top" colspan="4"><span style="font-size:14.0px;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Bayer is an E-Verify Employer.</span></td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="vertical-align:top" colspan="4"> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:justify;vertical-align:top" colspan="4"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="vertical-align:top" colspan="4"> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="vertical-align:top;width:150.0px"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0px"><strong>Location:</strong></span></span></td> <td style="vertical-align:top;width:200.0px" colspan="3" rowspan="1"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0px">United States : Residence Based : Residence Based || United States : Illinois : Chicago || United States : Missouri : Creve Coeur || United States : Washington : Seattle </span></span></td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="vertical-align:top;width:150.0px"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0px"><strong>Division:</strong></span></span></td> <td style="vertical-align:top;width:150.0px" colspan="3" rowspan="1"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0px">Crop Science </span></span></td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="vertical-align:top;width:150.0px"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0px"><strong>Reference Code:</strong></span></span></td> <td style="vertical-align:top;width:150.0px" colspan="2" rowspan="1"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">859535 </span></td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table style="width:970.0px" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" align="left"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="3"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3"><span style="font-size:16.0px;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Contact Us</strong></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="vertical-align:top" colspan="4"> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="vertical-align:top;width:150.0px"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0px"><strong>Email:</strong></span></span></td> <td style="vertical-align:top;width:150.0px" colspan="2" rowspan="1"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">[email protected] </span></td> </tr> </tbody> </table>