Senior Observability Platform Engineer (80-100%)

Role

Full-time

Permanent

Senior

Engineering

Logistics

Zürich, Switzerland

80–100%

Closes in 30 days

Requirements

5+ yrs exp

Bachelor's

EU/EFTA permit

Description

Senior Observability Platform Engineer (80-100%) Location: Zurich / Bern We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Platform Observability Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our core observability infrastructure that supports our engineering teams and customer-facing portal. Your work will include evolving these systems and participate in fostering adoption of observability best-practices in the organization.

Responsibilities

Configure, operate, and enhance our observability platforms and frameworks.
Continuously improve and drive organization-wide adoption of observability best-practices.
Develop and maintain automated solutions for monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
Collaborate with engineering teams to understand their needs and provide robust, scalable solutions.
Optimize system performance and ensure high availability through proactive monitoring and maintenance.
Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends, tools, and technologies to drive continuous improvement.
Experiment with and implement new tools to enhance platform capabilities.

Requirements

Proven track record in managing at least one of the following observability stacks: Thanos, Mimir, Cortex, Tempo, Loki or Clickhouse.
Deep understanding of Kubernetes architecture and hands-on experience in managing resources on clusters.
Experience in writing and maintaining Helm charts.
Experience in continuous delivery and GitOps practices.
Hands-on experience using agentic AI workflows.
Expertise in containerization, orchestration, and optimization of Docker workloads.
Coding knowledge in Golang or a similar language.
Interest in applying AI/ML to the observability domain.

Tech stack

ClickhouseThanosLokiTempoOpenTelemetry CollectorKubernetesHelmGitOpsDocker

Benefits

You’ll be among people who believe in: Caring PASSIONATELY about keeping our customers safe.
Thinking UNCONVENTIONALLY to stay ahead.
Doing the hard work to make things SIMPLE.
Working COLLABORATIVELY to build success.
Surrounded by smart teams who enrich your experience and provide opportunities.

Company

opench

Technology

Open Systems is an international provider of co-managed SASE operating models, helping enterprises and organizations securely operate complex hybrid and multicloud environments. Founded in 1990 and headquartered in Switzerland, the company generates over USD 100 million in annual revenue and supports global enterprise customers with more than 60,000 employees across operations in more than 180 countries.