Senior Observability Engineer

SIX Digital Assets; Zürich; Vor Ort; CHF 140.000 - 190.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

SIX Digital Assets in Zürich is seeking a Senior Observability Engineer to design, deploy, and operate observability and AIOps as a core capability across teams.

You will lead onboarding, establish telemetry standards, create actionable insights, and ensure reliable services through OpenTelemetry instrumentation and pipelines. This role collaborates with platform, product, and application teams to improve incident detection and operational decision-making in cloud-native environments.

Qualifikationen

• 8+ years of hands-on observability/SRE experience with production responsibilities
• Production-ready observability solutions; dashboards/queries alone are not enough
• Practical OpenTelemetry instrumentation for traces, metrics, and logs
• Strong understanding of modern trace-centric observability
• Experience with OpenTelemetry Collectors and telemetry pipelines is a plus
• Kubernetes-based deployments in cloud-native environments
• Experience with Elastic, Grafana, Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics, etc.
• Scripting/automation using Helm, Terraform, Ansible

Aufgaben

• Design, deploy, and operate observability and AIOps capabilities in cloud-native/hybrid environments
• Lead onboarding of teams, set telemetry standards for instrumentation, SLIs, SLOs, and alerting with OpenTelemetry
• Collaborate with engineering/SRE/ops to translate requirements into observability and automation solutions
• Install, configure, and maintain OpenTelemetry Collectors and telemetry pipelines
• Build dashboards, alerting, and telemetry flows across tracing, metrics, and logs
• Run and evolve observability services to support incident detection and decision-making
• Design and maintain integrations with event management and ticketing systems for alerts

Kenntnisse

Observability engineering

SRE

OpenTelemetry instrumentation

Incident management

Automation scripting

Cloud-native / Kubernetes

Tools

OpenTelemetry Collectors

Elastic Stack

Grafana

Dynatrace

Datadog

AppDynamics

Helm

Terraform

Ansible

Jobbeschreibung

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