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

• Experience with OpenShift and enterprise container platforms
• Strong dashboard creation skills for trend analysis and anomaly detection
• Exposure to large-scale infrastructure design and operations
• Familiarity with security and compliance requirements for enterprise systems