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Senior Observability Engineer

SIX Group Zurich, Switzerland
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Senior Observability Engineer

SIX Group Zurich, Switzerland
Senior Observability Engineer

The Senior Observability Engineer is a hands-on role for someone who has already built production observability capabilities-not only consumed observability platforms as an end user. You will help establish how telemetry is instrumented, collected, processed, visualized, alerted on, and governed across teams, leading early onboardings and shaping practical standards, processes, and ways of working.



Working closely with platform, product, and application teams, you will translate requirements into working telemetry solutions across traces, metrics, and logs, with OpenTelemetry as a core and mandatory technology. This role follows a trace-centric approach: metric-based deviations help detect issues, traces are the primary investigation path, and logs are used when additional detail is required. This is an opportunity to shape observability standards and engineering practices at enterprise scale, with direct influence on how teams instrument, operate, and troubleshoot critical services.



The Senior Observability Engineer is a hands-on role focused on building and delivering observability and AIOps as a shared engineering capability and service. You will help establish how observability is designed, implemented, and consumed across teams, leading early onboardings and shaping practical standards, processes, and ways of working.



Working closely with platform, product, and application teams, you will translate requirements into actionable observability solutions, implement and operate core capabilities, and continuously improve how insights, alerting, and automation support reliable services. As a core contributor to the Observability & AIOps Center of Excellence, you will combine deep technical execution with strong ownership of service quality, operational readiness, and capability maturity




What You Will Do



  • design, deploy, and operate observability and AIOps capabilities for cloud-native and hybrid environments, supporting reliable, production-grade services

  • lead the onboarding of teams and services, defining and applying standards for telemetry instrumentation, collection, SLIs, SLOs, and alerting in real-world systems using OpenTelemetry

  • work hands-on with engineering, SRE, and operations teams to gather requirements and translate them into actionable observability and automation solutions

  • install, configure, fine-tune, and maintain OpenTelemetry Collectors and telemetry pipelines for applications and platforms

  • build and maintain dashboards, alerting, and telemetry flows across distributed tracing, metrics, and logs, leveraging OpenTelemetry to deliver meaningful insights and reduce operational noise

  • run and evolve observability services that support modern incident detection, investigation, and operational decision-making

  • design, configure, and maintain integrations with event management and ticketing systems for alert routing, incident context, and operational workflows




What You Bring



  • 8+ years of hands-on experience in observability, SRE, platform, or reliability engineering, including responsibility for production observability capabilities

  • proven experience taking observability capabilities from requirements to production-ready solutions; experience limited to dashboards, queries, or observability backends as a consumer is not sufficient

  • practical experience instrumenting applications and infrastructure with OpenTelemetry to generate traces, metrics, and logs

  • strong understanding of modern, trace-centric observability practices beyond traditional log-centric monitoring

  • experience deploying, configuring, and operating OpenTelemetry Collectors and designing telemetry pipelines is a strong advantage; these will be key hands-on responsibilities in the role

  • experience with cloud-native environments, operating Kubernetes-based workloads

  • experience with common observability toolchains and backends (e.g.: Elastic, Grafana, Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics, etc.) - Elastic Stack experience considered a plus

  • scripting or automation skills to support repeatable deployment, configuration, validation, and ongoing operations using technologies such as Helm, Terraform, and Ansible



If you have any questions,
check out our FAQ page or call Beata Czyzewska at +48 22 104 6571 / +41 58 399 9800 / +34 91 330 51 49.



For this vacancy we only accept direct applications.



Diversity is important to us. Therefore, we are looking to receiving applications regardless of any personal background.




What We Offer




Flexible Work Models

We trust our employees and offer a work environment that is well-balanced, productive and fosters success.




Personal Development

You will benefit from a culture of continuous learning and feedback. Your personal growth is supported through an extensive learning offering.




Agile Working Methods Whether through scrum or design thinking,

we solve exciting tasks together in teams.

Job ID  7664
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