Observability Engineering Tech Lead

The Tech Lead for the Observability Engineering team will be responsible for leading the design deployment and management of the observability stack across cloud environments.

This role requires a blend of strong technical expertise leadership capabilities and handson experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform.

The Tech Lead will guide a team of engineers ensuring the delivery of scalable and reliable observability solutions that enhance the organizations ability to monitor troubleshoot and optimize its cloud infrastructure and IT workloads.

Your key tasks

Leadership & Team Management

• Lead mentor and develop a team of observability engineers fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement
• Drive technical discussions and decisionmaking processes to align the team with the organizations goals and vision

Observability Stack Design & Deployment

• Design and Implement: Build a robust observability stack encompassing logging monitoring alerting and tracing systems tailored for cloud environments
• Integration: Seamlessly connect observability tools with cloud services and infrastructure to achieve comprehensive monitoring and visibility
• IaC Development: Use Terraform to automate the provisioning and deployment of observability tools and infrastructure ensuring consistency and efficiency

Monitoring and Optimization

• Monitoring Standards: Define and enforce organizationwide monitoring and alerting standards for realtime incident detection
• Optimization: Continuously refine the observability stack to enhance system performance minimize downtime and optimize resource utilization

EndtoEnd Monitoring Practices

• Comprehensive Tracking: Implement endtoend monitoring solutions that provide insights into the performance availability and reliability of IT workloads
• Standardization: Establish best practices for metrics logs and traces ensuring holistic visibility across the technology stack
• Automated Alerts: Develop automated alerting systems for proactive issue identification and resolution.

Technical Collaboration

• CrossTeam Integration: Work closely with DevOps SRE and application development teams to align observability strategies with operational objectives.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Communicate complex technical insights clearly to stakeholders enabling informed decisionmaking.

Qualifications :

• Bachelors degree in computer science Engineering or a related field or equivalent experience may be considered
• 5 years of experience in observability for onprem and cloud infrastructure or related fields with at least 2 years in a leadership or tech lead role
• Proven experience in infrastructure troubleshooting and infrastructure as code (IaC) tools with Terraform Pyton and similar

Technical Skills

• Cloud Platforms: Expertise in Oracle OCI (mandatory) with knowledge of AWS Azure and GCP observability features
• Observability Tools: Skilled in industry standards like Prometheus Alert Manager Grafana Loki PagerDuty and similar tools
• Best Practices: Deep understanding of monitoring logging and tracing within cloudnative environments
• Containerized Platforms: Proficient in OpenShift Kubernetes and related container platforms
• CI/CD & Automation: Experienced with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools like Jenkins and GitLab/GitHub CI/CD

Leadership & Soft Skills

• Strong leadership and team management skills
• Excellent problemsolving skills with a focus on delivering highquality scalable solutions
• Effective communication skills both written and verbal with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Ability to work in a fastpaced collaborative environment with changing priorities

Additional Information :

We realize that managing work life balance is a challenge we all face in our daily lives and in order to support with this we are pleased to offer hybrid and flexible working for most of our Avaloqers to maintain work life balance and still continue our fantastic Avaloq culture in our global offices. 

In Avaloq we are proud to embrace diversity and understand the success of our business is built on the power of different opinions we are whole heartedly committed to fostering an equal opportunity environment and inclusive culture where you can be your true authentic self. 

We hire compensate and promote regardless of origin age gender identity sexual orientation or any other fantastic traits that make us all unique we have done our best to write this advert in an inclusive and neutral way. 

Please be aware that we will not accept speculative CV submissions for any of our roles from recruitment agencies and any unsolicited candidate submissions will be exempt from any payment expectations.  

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime