About this role
Job title: Lead Observability and Monitoring Engineer
About the Role Join SimCorp as a Lead Observability and Monitoring Engineer to own and shape the organization’s observability stack. You’ll partner with product teams to prevent incidents, translate telemetry into actionable insights, and raise the bar for reliability across the business.
What You'll Do
- Turning our Grafana dashboards and alerting into a surface engineers actually trust.
- Building out our Azure telemetry, with KQL as the language that ties the stack together.
- Setting the standard for how services are instrumented with OpenTelemetry, and helping product teams get it right.
- Raising the quality of our alerting so that what fires actually matters.
- Shaping service level objectives, error budgets, and the reliability conversations that come with them.
- Owning your area end to end and setting a technical bar the rest of the team grows toward.
What We're Looking For
- Core strengths: Several years in observability, site reliability, or platform engineering, delivering independently rather than waiting for direction.
- Deep Grafana experience across dashboards and multiple data sources.
- Strong Azure monitoring, especially Log Analytics and KQL.
- Comfort with infrastructure as code, ideally Terraform.
- Sound instincts for metrics, logs, traces, and alerting.
- A real advantage OpenTelemetry in practice, Kubernetes, and modern CI/CD.
Nice to Have
- The wider Azure and Microsoft Fabric data stack, modern incident and SLO tooling, and anomaly detection.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and improving the things around you.
Compensation & Benefits
- Global hybrid work policy - We ask you to work 2 days a week from the office. If you choose, you can work remotely the other days. You can also come to the office if you prefer.
- Growth and Innovation - Every 6th sprint is reserved for planning and innovation, giving you a chance to explore and learn new skills.
- Self-Direction - High degree of self-organization and autonomy to plan and design your work.
- Inclusive and diverse company culture.
- Work-life balance – We believe that equilibrium between professional responsibilities makes us all better.
- Empowerment – Every voice is valued and must be heard.