Observability Platform Engineer (DevOps)

About the role

We are looking for an Observability Platform Engineer to design, build and operate modern monitoring and tracing solutions for complex, distributed systems. You will work in a hybrid setting in Hamburg, collaborating with cloud, container and infrastructure teams to ensure high reliability and performance.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop and enhance observability platforms focused on distributed tracing and metrics.
• Integrate and scale monitoring tools such as Grafana, Tempo, Loki and Prometheus.
• Implement tracing protocols (OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, Zipkin) and analyze data with TraceQL.
• Optimize platform performance through sampling, caching and resource tuning.
• Manage observability solutions in Kubernetes/OpenShift environments.
• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Git, Terraform, Ansible and Artifactory.
• Ensure security, data integrity and access control (LDAP, SAML, OAuth).
• Monitor infrastructure health and plan capacity for CPU, memory and storage.

Required profile

• Strong hands‑on experience with Grafana ecosystem tools.
• Solid understanding of container orchestration and distributed system architecture.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot performance issues in large‑scale environments.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP) and Linux/Unix administration.

Required skills

• Grafana, Tempo, Loki, Prometheus
• OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, Zipkin, TraceQL
• Kubernetes, OpenShift
• Git, Terraform, Ansible, Artifactory
• LDAP, SAML, OAuth
• AWS, Azure, GCP
• Linux/Unix system administration