Observability Engineer

Specialist Observability Platform

Location: Utrecht, Netherlands

Start: ASAP

Contract: Until 30 September 2027

Client: Confidential enterprise client

Working language: Dutch & English

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Observability Platform Specialist to take a technically leading role in the continued development of a large-scale central observability platform.

You will work within an established Observability team supporting a large number of technology teams across a complex enterprise IT landscape. The environment includes Kubernetes/AKS, Azure, AWS, private hosting and low-code platforms.

The role combines strong hands-on observability engineering with technical leadership, platform improvement, governance and stakeholder management.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical direction for the development of the central observability platform.
• Design and implement scalable observability solutions across complex enterprise environments.
• Develop standards, best practices and self-service capabilities for engineering teams.
• Improve governance, tagging, sampling, Data Access Control and observability cost management.
• Support the controlled onboarding of teams and introduction of new platform functionality.
• Work closely with engineering teams, platform teams and external technology partners.
• Develop monitoring solutions that connect technical observability data with business and service impact.
• Drive improvements around automation, standardisation and platform scalability.
• Support and coach engineering teams in effectively using the observability platform.
• Promote knowledge sharing and technical best practices across the organisation.

Core Requirements

• Strong experience designing, implementing and improving observability solutions in large-scale IT environments.
• Strong experience with observability tooling such as Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki or ELK.
• Datadog experience is highly preferred.
• Experience with automation and CI/CD tooling such as Terraform, Helm, Ansible and Azure Pipelines.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes/AKS, Azure and AWS.
• Experience across multiple cloud platforms and private hosting is advantageous.
• Ability to translate complex technical challenges into practical, scalable solutions.
• Comfortable working with both engineers and senior stakeholders/Product Owners.
• Proactive mindset with the ability to identify and initiate technical improvements.
• Strong communication skills in Dutch and English.