Senior Observability Engineer

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Zurich | up to 40% working from home possible | Reference 7664

The Senior Observability Engineer is a hands‑on role focused on building and delivering observability and AIOps as a shared engineering capability and service. You will help establish how observability is designed, implemented, and consumed across teams, leading early onboardings and shaping practical standards, processes, and ways of working.

Working closely with platform, product, and application teams, you will translate requirements into actionable observability solutions, implement and operate core capabilities, and continuously improve how insights, alerting, and automation support reliable services. As a core contributor to the Observability & AIOps Center of Excellence, you will combine deep technical execution with strong ownership of service quality, operational readiness, and capability maturity.

• Design, implement, and operate observability and AIOps capabilities for cloud‑native and hybrid environments, supporting reliable, production‑grade services
• Lead the onboarding of early adopter teams and services, defining and applying standards for telemetry, SLIs, SLOs, and alerting in real‑world systems
• Work hands‑on with engineering, SRE, and operations teams to gather requirements and translate them into actionable observability and automation solutions
• Build and maintain telemetry pipelines, dashboards, and alerting, leveraging Open Telemetry to deliver meaningful insights and reduce operational noise
• Run and evolve observability services in Kubernetes environments, using Helm and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), integrating with ITSM, ticketing and event management systems

• 5+ years of hands‑on experience in observability, SRE, platform, or reliability engineering, operating and supporting production systems
• Experience building or scaling observability capabilities, ideally in greenfield or early‑stage environments, and turning requirements into working solutions
• Strong practical knowledge of modern observability practices, including Open Telemetry, metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerting
• Solid experience with cloud‑native environments, operating Kubernetes‑based workloads using Helm and Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform)
• Experience with common observability tool chains (such as Grafana and Elastic Stack), with scripting or automation skills considered a plus

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Diversity is important to us. Therefore, we are looking to receiving applications regardless of any personal background.

Flexible Work Models We trust our employees and offer a work environment that is well‑balanced, productive and fosters success.

Personal Development You will benefit from a culture of continuous learning and feedback. Your personal growth is supported through an extensive learning offering.

Agile Working Methods Whether through scrum or design thinking, we solve exciting tasks together in teams.