Observability Platform Engineer

Planet; Galway; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Office presence 3 days a week

Job summary

Planet is seeking an Observability Engineer to shape monitoring across a global payments platform. You will own end-to-end observability lifecycle from architecture to automation, and drive improvements with modern practices and AI-enabled insights.

Based in Ireland or Poland, you will collaborate with multi-vendor environments, implement dashboards, alerting, and SLO governance, while embracing a hybrid work model with office presence three days a week.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in observability / monitoring / tooling engineering or a tooling-heavy operations role.
• Jira / Jira Service Management – our primary service management platform.
• Hands-on with a modern log-analytics & observability platform – Coralogix preferred or equivalent (Splunk/Grafana).
• Strong scripting & automation ability (Python, PowerShell or similar).
• English fluency required; based in Ireland or Poland.

Responsibilities

• Configure, tune and operate monitoring and observability across Planet’s multi-vendor estate.
• Own the alert lifecycle: test-mode onboarding, acceptance criteria, tuning and retirement of noise.
• Build dashboards and golden-signal views for the Command Centre floor and SLO reporting.
• Manage monitoring, alerting and dashboards as code – version-controlled, peer-reviewed and repeatable.
• Integrate tooling across the estate – observability, ITSM and CMDB (Jira/Jira Service Management, Device42).
• Automate everything that gets done twice: scripting, integrations, self-healing and runbook automation.
• Apply AI and AIOps where it adds value – correlation, noise reduction, anomaly detection and enrichment.
• Instrument new and existing services to the golden-signal standard (latency, traffic, errors, saturation).
• Help modernise and rationalise the toolset – reduce overlap, improve coverage and control cost.

Skills

Observability

Automation

Scripting

English

Tools

Jira

Coralogix

Splunk

Grafana

Job description

Planet is seeking an Observability Engineer to shape monitoring across a global payments platform. You will own end-to-end observability lifecycle from architecture to automation, and drive improvements with modern practices and AI-enabled insights.

Based in Ireland or Poland, you will collaborate with multi-vendor environments, implement dashboards, alerting, and SLO governance, while embracing a hybrid work model with office presence three days a week.