Observability Engineer

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Energy moves you

Only together will we take the next step in energy transition. As an Observability Engineer, you'll be a pivotal expert in:

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

• Excellent command of the English language, both oral and written.
• 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).
• A strong DevOps mentality, embracing ownership and a desire to continuously improve development lifecycles.
• Adaptability to constant change, including new requirements, evolving goals, and emerging technologies.

Benefits

• A job in which you can use your expertise to contribute to the sustainability of the Netherlands!
• A gross monthly salary between €4,967 and €7,053.
• 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 out your gender, nationality and/or age on your CV.