DevOps Engineer

Observability Platform Engineer

📍 Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany (Hybrid)

🏢 Industry: IT Services and IT Consulting

💼 Work Setting: Hybrid

Are you passionate about building and optimizing modern observability and monitoring systems? This is a great opportunity to work on cutting-edge technologies across distributed systems, cloud platforms, and containerized environments.

As an Observability Platform Engineer, you will design, implement, and manage scalable observability solutions, with a strong focus on distributed tracing and the Grafana ecosystem. You’ll play a key role in ensuring system reliability, performance, and visibility across complex infrastructures.

Key Responsibilities

Design, develop, and enhance observability platforms with a focus on distributed tracing and monitoring
Build and maintain system architecture integrating metrics, logs, and traces
Deploy, configure, and scale monitoring solutions using tools like Grafana, Tempo, Loki, and Prometheus
Implement and manage tracing protocols such as OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, and Zipkin
Analyze tracing data using TraceQL to identify performance bottlenecks and system issues
Optimize platform performance through tuning (e.g., sampling, caching strategies)
Manage observability solutions in containerized environments (Kubernetes/OpenShift)
Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Git, Terraform, Ansible, and Artifactory
Ensure system security, data integrity, and access control (LDAP, SAML, OAuth)
Monitor infrastructure health and plan for scalability (CPU, memory, storage)

Required Skills & Experience

Strong experience with observability tools, particularly within the Grafana ecosystem
Hands-on experience with container technologies and orchestration tools
Solid understanding of system architecture and distributed systems
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code tools
Working knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
Proficiency in Linux/Unix system administration
Ability to analyze system performance and resolve complex issues

Preferred Skills