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 participating in fostering adoption of observability best‑practices in the organization.
Key Responsibilities
Configure, operate, and enhance our observability platforms and frameworks (Clickhouse, Thanos, Loki, Tempo, OpenTelemetry Collector + custom processors).
Continuously improve and drive organization‑wide adoption of observability best‑practices, ensuring comprehensive monitoring, logging, and tracing.
Develop and maintain automated solutions for monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
System Optimization
Collaborate with engineering teams to understand their needs and provide robust, scalable solutions utilizing the observability platform.
Optimize system performance and ensure high availability through proactive monitoring and maintenance.
Develop and implement strategies for cost optimization, capacity planning, and performance tuning.
Innovation and Improvement
Stay up‑to‑date with the latest industry trends, tools, and technologies to drive continuous improvement.
Experiment with and implement new tools, especially around observability and telemetry, to enhance platform capabilities.
Evaluate and integrate OpenTelemetry Collector where beneficial to enhance telemetry data collection and analysis.
Required Skills and Experience
Observability Platforms: Proven track record in managing at least one of the following observability stacks: Thanos, Mimir, Cortex, Tempo, Loki, or Clickhouse; with the ability to configure, operate, and improve these systems.
Kubernetes: Deep understanding of Kubernetes architecture and hands‑on experience in managing resources on clusters.
Helm: Experience in writing and maintaining Helm charts, and understanding third‑party charts to deploy and manage Kubernetes resources efficiently.
GitOps: Experience in continuous delivery and GitOps practices (version control, CI/CD pipelines).
Agentic Development: Hands‑on experience using agentic AI workflows (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, or similar) to accelerate day‑to‑day engineering.
Docker: Expertise in containerization, orchestration, and optimization of Docker workloads.
Desirable Skills
Coding Experience: Coding knowledge in Golang or a similar language.
Open Source: Contributor to open source project written in Golang or a similar language.
OpenTelemetry Collector: Knowledge of the OpenTelemetry Collector or direction contribution to project.
AI for Observability: Interest in applying AI/ML to the observability domain like anomaly detection on metrics and logs, automated root‑cause analysis, alert noise reduction and correlation, and natural‑language querying over telemetry.
Soft Skills
Quick Learner: Ability to quickly grasp new concepts and technologies, adapting to the evolving needs of the organization.
Communication: Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
Customer Focus: Keen awareness of customer needs and the impact of platform operations on both internal engineering teams and external users.
Collaborative Mindset: Strong ability to work collaboratively in cross‑functional teams, contributing to a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.
Education and Experience
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent experience).
5+ years of experience in platform engineering, site reliability engineering, or a related role.
Demonstrated experience in managing large‑scale infrastructures and observability platforms (such as Thanos, Mimir, Cortex, Tempo, Loki, Clickhouse).
Technical Expertise.
Observability Platform Operations.
You are excited by the prospect of managing more than 20 TB of telemetry data per day, originating from a fleet of 10 000+ nodes (including linux hosts, k8s clusters, VMs).
Equal Opportunity Come as you are! We search for amazing people of diverse backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. Open Systems welcomes and encourages diversity in the workplace regardless of race, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, disability, or veteran status.
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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 participating in fostering adoption of observability best‑practices in the organization.
Key Responsibilities
Configure, operate, and enhance our observability platforms and frameworks (Clickhouse, Thanos, Loki, Tempo, OpenTelemetry Collector + custom processors).
Continuously improve and drive organization‑wide adoption of observability best‑practices, ensuring comprehensive monitoring, logging, and tracing.
Develop and maintain automated solutions for monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
System Optimization
Collaborate with engineering teams to understand their needs and provide robust, scalable solutions utilizing the observability platform.
Optimize system performance and ensure high availability through proactive monitoring and maintenance.
Develop and implement strategies for cost optimization, capacity planning, and performance tuning.
Innovation and Improvement
Stay up‑to‑date with the latest industry trends, tools, and technologies to drive continuous improvement.
Experiment with and implement new tools, especially around observability and telemetry, to enhance platform capabilities.
Evaluate and integrate OpenTelemetry Collector where beneficial to enhance telemetry data collection and analysis.
Required Skills and Experience
Observability Platforms: Proven track record in managing at least one of the following observability stacks: Thanos, Mimir, Cortex, Tempo, Loki, or Clickhouse; with the ability to configure, operate, and improve these systems.
Kubernetes: Deep understanding of Kubernetes architecture and hands‑on experience in managing resources on clusters.
Helm: Experience in writing and maintaining Helm charts, and understanding third‑party charts to deploy and manage Kubernetes resources efficiently.
GitOps: Experience in continuous delivery and GitOps practices (version control, CI/CD pipelines).
Agentic Development: Hands‑on experience using agentic AI workflows (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, or similar) to accelerate day‑to‑day engineering.
Docker: Expertise in containerization, orchestration, and optimization of Docker workloads.
Desirable Skills
Coding Experience: Coding knowledge in Golang or a similar language.
Open Source: Contributor to open source project written in Golang or a similar language.
OpenTelemetry Collector: Knowledge of the OpenTelemetry Collector or direction contribution to project.
AI for Observability: Interest in applying AI/ML to the observability domain like anomaly detection on metrics and logs, automated root‑cause analysis, alert noise reduction and correlation, and natural‑language querying over telemetry.
Soft Skills
Quick Learner: Ability to quickly grasp new concepts and technologies, adapting to the evolving needs of the organization.
Communication: Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
Customer Focus: Keen awareness of customer needs and the impact of platform operations on both internal engineering teams and external users.
Collaborative Mindset: Strong ability to work collaboratively in cross‑functional teams, contributing to a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.
Education and Experience
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent experience).
5+ years of experience in platform engineering, site reliability engineering, or a related role.
Demonstrated experience in managing large‑scale infrastructures and observability platforms (such as Thanos, Mimir, Cortex, Tempo, Loki, Clickhouse).
Technical Expertise.
Observability Platform Operations.
You are excited by the prospect of managing more than 20 TB of telemetry data per day, originating from a fleet of 10 000+ nodes (including linux hosts, k8s clusters, VMs).
Equal Opportunity Come as you are! We search for amazing people of diverse backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. Open Systems welcomes and encourages diversity in the workplace regardless of race, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, disability, or veteran status.
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Ingénieur Senior Plateforme d'Observabilité (80-100%) Arbeitgeber: jobup
Als Arbeitgeber bietet unser Unternehmen ein dynamisches und unterstützendes Arbeitsumfeld, das auf Teamarbeit und kontinuierliche Weiterbildung setzt. Wir fördern die berufliche Entwicklung unserer Mitarbeiter durch gezielte Schulungen und Aufstiegsmöglichkeiten, während wir gleichzeitig attraktive Vergütungs- und Sozialleistungen bieten. Unsere Lage in der Schweiz ermöglicht es Ihnen, in einem internationalen Umfeld zu arbeiten und von einer hohen Lebensqualität zu profitieren.
