Regular Cloud Observability Engineer

Project Description:

We're building a Cloud Observability platform for market leading large Germany based company with 440,000 customers worldwide.

Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, the company has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end enterprise application software, database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. A top cloud company with 200 million users worldwide, the company helps businesses of all sizes and in all industries to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and achieve their purpose.

Responsibilities:

• Lead sprint-based feature development for OpenSearch & ElasticSearch observability solutions
• Perform peer code review, quality assurance, and mentor junior team members
• Manage frequent upgrades of open-source dependencies
• Take timely action on reported security vulnerabilities and licensing alerts
• Deliver working software updates to the live environment following successful review and testing
• Participate in sprint planning, execution, and review
• Contribute to documentation: Monthly Maintenance Reports, Feature Development Reports, SDD extensions, and ADRs
• Participate in developer on-call rotation outside core hours

Mandatory Skills Description:

• Kubernetes Administration, Operators & Extensions (Strimzi, VPA, CRD, AWS LB, Reloader, HAProxy Ingress, Istio), local dev environments (Kind/Minikube/k3d), troubleshooting
• K8s Security Tooling (cert-manager, External Secrets, OPA Gatekeeper, Vault), TLS/mTLS/OpenSSL
• Observability Backends & Pipelines (Grafana, Jaeger, Splunk, OTel Collector, Logstash)
• OpenSearch
• Go / Python Development
• CI/CD & Git-based Workflows (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Jenkins)
• Creation & Management of AI-based Workflows
• Willingness to learn & adaptability to performance feedback

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:

• Elasticsearch Stack (OpenSearch, Dashboards, Operator, Data Prepper), administration
• Redis database experience
• NATS messaging platform
• Nuclio serverless framework
• SonarQube code quality tooling

Languages:

• English: C1 Advanced