Observability Engineer

Gazelle Global; Utrecht; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Gazelle Global is seeking an Observability Platform Specialist to lead and grow a central observability platform across a large enterprise IT landscape. You will work hands-on and provide technical leadership for governance, platform improvements, and self-service capabilities.

The role spans engineering collaboration, vendor tooling, and cost-conscious platform scalability, with Dutch & English communication as a core requirement.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and improving observability solutions in large IT environments.
• Experience with multiple observability tools (Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Familiarity with automation and CI/CD tooling (Terraform, Helm, Ansible, Azure Pipelines).
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes/AKS, Azure and AWS.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical direction for the central observability platform.
• Design and implement scalable observability solutions across complex environments.
• Develop standards, best practices and self-service capabilities for engineering teams.
• Improve governance, tagging, sampling, and Data Access Control.
• Support onboarding of teams and new platform functionality.
• Collaborate with engineering teams, platform teams and partners.
• Develop monitoring linking observability data with business impact.
• Drive automation, standardisation and scalability improvements.
• Coach engineers in using the observability platform.
• Promote knowledge sharing and best practices across the organisation.

Skills

Observability design

Platform governance

Stakeholder management

Automation

CI/CD tooling

Platform scalability

Coaching engineers

Dutch & English communication

Tools

Datadog

Dynatrace

New Relic

Prometheus

Grafana

Loki

ELK

Terraform

Helm

Ansible

Azure Pipelines

Kubernetes/AKS

Azure

AWS

Job description

Specialist Observability Platform

Location: Utrecht, Netherlands
Start: ASAP
Contract: Until 30 September 2027
Client: Confidential enterprise client
Working language: Dutch & English

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Observability Platform Specialist to take a technically leading role in the continued development of a large-scale central observability platform.

You will work within an established Observability team supporting a large number of technology teams across a complex enterprise IT landscape. The environment includes Kubernetes/AKS, Azure, AWS, private hosting and low-code platforms.

The role combines strong hands-on observability engineering with technical leadership, platform improvement, governance and stakeholder management.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical direction for the development of the central observability platform.

• Design and implement scalable observability solutions across complex enterprise environments.

• Develop standards, best practices and self-service capabilities for engineering teams.

• Improve governance, tagging, sampling, Data Access Control and observability cost management.

• Support the controlled onboarding of teams and introduction of new platform functionality.

• Work closely with engineering teams, platform teams and external technology partners.

• Develop monitoring solutions that connect technical observability data with business and service impact.

• Drive improvements around automation, standardisation and platform scalability.

• Support and coach engineering teams in effectively using the observability platform.

• Promote knowledge sharing and technical best practices across the organisation.

Core Requirements

• Strong experience designing, implementing and improving observability solutions in large-scale IT environments.

• Strong experience with observability tooling such as Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki or ELK.

• Datadog experience is highly preferred.

• Experience with automation and CI/CD tooling such as Terraform, Helm, Ansible and Azure Pipelines.

• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes/AKS, Azure and AWS.

• Experience across multiple cloud platforms and private hosting is advantageous.

• Ability to translate complex technical challenges into practical, scalable solutions.

• Comfortable working with both engineers and senior stakeholders/Product Owners.

• Proactive mindset with the ability to identify and initiate technical improvements.

• Strong communication skills in Dutch and English.