Observability Engineer
COCUS
Job description
About the role
The Observability Engineer will be responsible for building and continuously improving our organisation’s observability capabilities. Working across SRE, Platform Engineering and Application Development, you will enable teams to gain deep visibility into system health, performance and reliability.
Key responsibilities
- Design, implement, maintain and evolve enterprise observability platforms.
- Implement and support logging, metrics, tracing, monitoring and alerting solutions.
- Contribute to the rollout, maintenance and improvement of Elastic/ELK and other observability tools.
- Define instrumentation standards for applications, infrastructure and cloud services.
- Build dashboards aligned with SLOs and service health indicators.
- Optimise alerting frameworks to reduce noise and improve signal quality.
- Ensure telemetry pipelines are scalable, reliable, secure and cost‑efficient.
- Monitor the health of the observability platform itself.
- Analyse telemetry data to identify performance trends and recurring issues.
- Partner with SRE and Application Development teams to embed observability into design and incident investigation.
- Develop automation and monitoring scripts using Python and Bash.
- Collaborate with infrastructure and platform teams to integrate observability across cloud‑native and distributed environments.
Required profile
- Several years of experience in monitoring, observability, SRE, platform engineering or related roles.
- Proven ability to design and operate large‑scale observability solutions.
- Strong analytical mindset with a focus on continuous improvement.
Required skills
- Python
- Bash
- Elastic Stack (ELK)
- Monitoring, logging, metrics, tracing and alerting technologies
- Dashboarding and SLO definition
What we offer
- Opportunity to work in a global, collaborative environment.
- Focus on automation, continuous improvement and scalable solutions.
- Exposure to cutting‑edge observability practices across multiple platforms.
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