Senior Cloud Observability Engineer

Nebul; Leiden; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mobility budget

Performance bonus

Equity participation

Hybrid work around Leiden

Job summary

Nebul is building Europe’s Intelligent Cloud and seeks a Senior Monitoring & Observability Engineer to design, deploy and operate the observability foundation of our cloud platform.

You will work with Prometheus, OpenTelemetry and the Grafana stack (Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Mimir) across multi-datacentre environments, building SLIs/SLOs and scalable monitoring for infrastructure, apps, databases and Kubernetes. This hands-on role emphasizes reliable telemetry and secure, scalable operations.

Qualifications

• Experience in monitoring, observability, DevOps, SRE or platform engineering.
• Hands-on with Prometheus and Grafana.
• Experience monitoring multi-tenant Kubernetes and cloud environments.
• Strong Linux and Kubernetes knowledge.
• Scripting with Bash and Python.
• Experience defining alerting, SLIs and SLOs.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy and maintain Nebul’s monitoring and observability platform.
• Build scalable observability solutions for multi-datacentre and multi-tenant environments.
• Monitor cloud infrastructure, applications, databases, Kubernetes clusters, storage and network components.
• Develop and maintain Grafana dashboards that provide actionable operational insight.
• Design effective alerting strategies that minimise noise and accelerate incident response.
• Define and implement service-level indicators and service-level objectives.
• Build centralized logging and distributed tracing capabilities.
• Implement and manage metrics, logs and traces using Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Loki, Tempo and Mimir.
• Optimize telemetry collection, retention, querying and storage performance.
• Troubleshoot complex monitoring and production issues.
• Ensure the observability platform is highly available, secure and scalable.
• Automate the deployment and configuration of monitoring components.
• Improve observability standards, documentation and operational practices.
• Collaborate with cloud, infrastructure, Kubernetes, networking, AI and application teams.
• Help engineering teams instrument their services and make effective use of telemetry.

Skills

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

Linux

Docker

Helm

Argo CD

Ansible

Terraform

Python

Bash

GitOps

SLIs/SLOs

High availability

Tools

Grafana

Loki

Tempo

Mimir

Prometheus

Docker

Helm

Argo CD

Ansible

Terraform

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Nebul is building Europe’s Intelligent Cloud and seeks a Senior Monitoring & Observability Engineer to design, deploy and operate the observability foundation of our cloud platform.

You will work with Prometheus, OpenTelemetry and the Grafana stack (Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Mimir) across multi-datacentre environments, building SLIs/SLOs and scalable monitoring for infrastructure, apps, databases and Kubernetes. This hands-on role emphasizes reliable telemetry and secure, scalable operations.