Automation and Observability Engineer

Join us, and enhance monitoring solutions for critical systems!

Krakow-based opportunity with the possibility to work 80% remotely!

As an Automation and Observability Engineer, you will be working for our client, a leading financial institution, within their Managed File Transmission team. This team is responsible for managing file transfers across a variety of platforms and technologies, ensuring secure and efficient operations. You will be instrumental in delivering automation solutions, enhancing observability, and supporting the team’s strategic initiatives to improve self-service infrastructure and automated governance.

Your main responsibilities:

• Delivering and implementing automation solutions for the platform
• Collaborating with operations, engineering teams, developers, and infrastructure teams to assess automation needs
• Implementing and maintaining observability and monitoring frameworks
• Working with application teams to set up observability for their applications and infrastructure
• Using Jenkins to develop CI/CD pipelines
• Utilizing Ansible for configuration management and deployment
• Building performance and tracing practices using tools like Splunk, AppDynamics, and ThousandEyes
• Engineering solutions and establishing standards for observability tools
• Seeking opportunities to automate deployments and reduce operational tasks
• Communicating tool capabilities and processes to stakeholders
• Scheduling and hosting tool training sessions for better adoption and best practices
• Providing input on improving the global operating model for monitoring and observability services

You’re ideal for this role if you have:

• 3+ years of experience with GitHub, Jenkins, and Ansible
• 5+ years of experience with Linux fundamentals, scripting, PowerShell, and Python
• 2+ years of experience with Splunk, AppDynamics, and ThousandEyes
• Knowledge of REST API development for monitoring extensions
• Application development experience (Java) at an enterprise level
• Experience with architecture tech stacks including Java app servers, web servers, Golang, Kubernetes, OpenShift, PCF, AWS, and Google Cloud
• Familiarity with ServiceNow, Confluence, and Jira
• Experience in defining, creating, and supporting monitoring dashboards
• Experience with monitoring and observability solutions for Unix and Oracle databases
• Understanding of application performance metrics, KPIs, statistical calculations, machine learning, and correlation
• Experience with APM in deployment for mission-critical applications
• Ability to work independently, multi-task, and take ownership of projects
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills for collaborating with business and technology groups
• Understanding of end-to-end business processes and the ability to translate them into system requirements
• Technical writing experience in queries, reports, and presentations

It is a strong plus if you have:

• Cloud implementation experience with GCP or equivalent
• Knowledge of event management tools and operations automation like AIOps
• Practical knowledge of distributed service design, including messaging protocols and caching strategies
• Experience implementing and adjusting tools and methodology for monitoring and observability products such as Elasticsearch, Grafana, Prometheus
• Possess strong interpersonal and communication skills to be able to deal with and form good relationships with the business and other technology groups through day-to-day support and project work

#GETREADY  to meet with us!

We would like to meet you. If you are interested please apply and attach your CV in English or Polish, including a statement that you agree to our processing and storing of your personal data. You can always also apply by sending us an email at recruitment@itds.pl.

Internal number #5237

Internal number #5237