Observability Platform Lead – Multi-Cloud & Kubernetes

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

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.