Senior Platform Engineer Observability

Job Description

We're on the lookout for a passionate Senior Platform Engineer Observability who thrives on both designing robust systems and getting hands-on with data processing. If you're driven by the challenge of creating insightful platforms that empower developers and contribute to a more sustainable future, then this role is for you. Move ahead with us and apply for the Senior Platform Engineer Observability vacancy in Den Bosch.

Our Observability Platform team is a dynamic platform team within our Empower Agile Release Train. Our core mission is to develop and maintain a cutting-edge observability platform that provides development teams with a holistic view of their applications' health, performance, and operational insights.

Beyond core telemetry, we also dedicate a portion of our time to developing our own in-house solution for calculating and publishing key Developer Experience (DevEx) metrics (based on DORA) directly into our observability platform, further empowering teams with actionable insights. We're building the foundation for smarter, more efficient energy solutions.

Energy moves youOnly together we can take the next step in energy. As a Senior Platform Engineer Observability, you are the expert in your field in:

• Designing & Implementing Observability Pipelines: Crafting scalable and cost-effective data ingestion pipelines for logs, metrics, and traces from diverse AWS accounts into our central New Relic platform
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Development: Developing modular, reusable, and generic OpenTofu (Terraform) modules to automate the deployment of observability infrastructure across our AWS environments
• Data Processing & Transformation: Building and maintaining data processors, primarily in Python, to transform, filter, and enrich telemetry data for optimal ingestion and analysis, including the calculation of DORA metrics.
• Cross-Account Integrations: Engineering seamless and secure data flows between our feature teams' AWS accounts and our central monitoring infrastructure
• Building Reusable Assets: Creating standardized "building blocks" and reusable assets that empower development teams to easily integrate their applications with our observability platform
• Ensuring Platform Reliability: Maintaining and continuously improving our existing observability infrastructure, focusing on performance, security, and cost efficiency
• Driving Observability Best Practices: Advocating for and implementing effective monitoring, logging, and tracing strategies across the organization, and documenting our approaches in our developer portal
• Working closely together with other engineering teams to increase their observability maturity

Gustavo Martins, Engineering Manager: "In this position, you are part of the I Empower Agile Release Train. Together we create insights for our developer colleagues. Those insights include observability metrics, logs and tracing, lifecycle management, DORA metrics, application's health status, cost and technical debt. Our team has an entrepreneurial drive as we build the solution from scratch and collaborate closely with the DevOps Teams within Essent."

Requirements

We're looking for team players and go-getters who want to make the Netherlands a bit more sustainable. Who look at what is possible now. Today. To bring us closer to tomorrow. You recognise yourself in this and in the following:

• Excellent command of the English language, both oral and written
• Strong intrinsic motivation to enable engineering teams through proactive feedback collection, running workshops, and doing hands-on support (including temporarily embedding within product teams). Strong communication skills are key!
• Proven experience in system design for complex, distributed cloud environments
• Strong proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks, particularly OpenTofu/Terraform, for building modular and generic solutions
• Solid experience in developing data processors and automation scripts in Python
• In-depth knowledge of data pipelines in AWS, including services like CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, Kinesis (Firehose/Streams), and Lambda
• Experience with OpenTelemetry concepts and tools, including the OpenTelemetry Collector, for standardized telemetry collection
• Experience with GitLab CI/CD pipelines for automated builds and deployments
• Familiarity with New Relic or similar observability platforms (e.g., Splunk, Datadog)

You embrace the DevOps mentality by giving and taking ownership, and the will to constantly improve. You are always looking for ways to make development life cycles better, simpler, and more reliable. You have a "you-built-it-you-own-it" mindset. You revel in continues improvement and are eager to develop your skills. You adjust to constant business change; common types of changes include new requirements, evolving goals and strategies, and emerging technologies.

We offer you

We appreciate and value the energy and motivation you put into your work so that we can be the best energy partner for our customers. We show this by providing a nice employment package. We offer you:

• A job in which you can use your expertise to contribute to the sustainability of the Netherlands!
• A gross monthly salary between € 5.807 and € 8.253
• A bonus of 10% of your annual salary to express our appreciation even more
• 30 day's holiday and 8% holiday pay
• The opportunity to work within a hybrid model
• Interested in a workation? We'd like to think along with you!
• A discount on your energy bill and on all products of our service partners (solar panels, heat pump, maintenance, etc.)
• An attractive head office within walking distance of Central Station Den Bosch with amenities such as a good coffee bar, two company restaurants and free fresh fruit
• An NS Business Card for commuting or a mileage allowance. You decide
• Development and growth opportunities and an associated personal development budget of € 500 per year. You can also follow job-related education, training and courses at our expense. International ambitions? As part of the E.ON Group, we also offer you plenty of development opportunities within the other E.ON countries
• And last but not least: an environment in which you can really be yourself. For us, all that matters is who you are and what you can do. So, feel free to leave your gender out, nationality and/or age on your CV

This is a great opportunity to get started as a Senior Platform Engineer Observability. Curious about what's next? Check out the steps for our application process below.