Observability & SRE Engineer

Observability & SRE Engineer

Mode: 1 year Fixed term contract

Salary: Euro 80K little flexible for strong candidates

Remote but candidate based in Germany are preferred

German Profecincy minimum of C1 is mandatory

Primary Skills:

Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry SDKs, Jaeger tracing, SIEM log export.

Security Clearance & Vetting Level: Public Sector Clearance + NdK (Nachweis der Kundigkeit)

Position Overview

The Observability & SRE Engineer builds and operates central telemetry stacks to provide visibility across distributed cloud infrastructure. This role implements metric collection, log aggregation, distributed tracing, and standalone alerting tailored for Air-Gap operations.

Key Responsibilities

Monitoring Stack Setup: Deploy and maintain Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and Jaeger stacks as code.

Dashboards & Alerting: Develop PromQL/LogQL monitoring dashboards; configure AlertManager routing and inhibition for autonomous Air-Gap operations.

Distributed Tracing: Implement OpenTelemetry Collectors and SDKs for auto-instrumentation and OTLP trace propagation.

SIEM Integration: Configure secure log export and security event management (CEF/Syslog) for external SIEM platforms.

Technical Qualifications & Skills

Must Have:

o Deep expertise in Prometheus (PromQL, ServiceMonitor, Federation, Remote Write) and Grafana.

o Hands-on experience with Loki log aggregation and AlertManager routing.

o Proficiency with OpenTelemetry (Collectors, SDKs, OTLP) and Jaeger distributed tracing.

o Knowledge of SIEM integrations and security event logging.

o Scripting skills in Go, Python, Shell, and YAML.