Senior Platform Engineer Observability

Essent; 's-Hertogenbosch; Hybrid; EUR 64,806 - 92,103; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days’ holiday

Development budget of €500

Discount on energy bill

International opportunities

Job summary

Essent, located in 's-Hertogenbosch, is looking for an expert to enhance its observability platform. You will design effective observability pipelines, nurture engineering teams, and maintain old infrastructure, all while using frameworks like OpenTofu/Terraform and programming in Python.

This role offers a gross monthly salary between €5,807 and €8,253 along with various benefits including bonuses, 30 days of holidays, and a personal development budget.

Qualifications

• Excellent command of English, both oral and written.
• Proven experience in system design for complex, distributed cloud environments.
• Strong proficiency with OpenTofu/Terraform for building modular solutions.
• Solid experience in developing data processors in Python.
• In-depth knowledge of AWS data pipelines.
• Experience with OpenTelemetry concepts.
• Experience with GitLab CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Designing & implementing observability pipelines for data ingestion.
• Developing modular, reusable IaC solutions.
• Building and maintaining data processors in Python.
• Engineering secure data flows between AWS accounts.
• Creating standardized assets for integration with observability platform.
• Maintaining and improving observability infrastructure.
• Driving best practices for monitoring and logging.
• Working with engineering teams to enhance observability.

Skills

Engineering teams support

Cloud system design

IaC frameworks

Python development

AWS services

Telemetry concepts

CI/CD pipelines

Observability platforms

Job description

Our Observability Platform team is a dynamic platform team within our Empower Agile Release Train. Our core mission is to develop and maintain a cutting‑edge observability platform that provides development teams with a holistic view of their applications’ health, performance, and operational insights. We also develop an in‑house solution for calculating and publishing key Developer Experience (DevEx) metrics (based on DORA) directly into our observability platform, further empowering teams with actionable insights. We are building the foundation for smarter, more efficient energy solutions.

Responsibilities

• Designing & implementing observability pipelines: crafting scalable and cost‑effective data ingestion pipelines for logs, metrics, and traces from diverse AWS accounts into our central New Relic platform.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) development: developing modular, reusable, and generic OpenTofu (Terraform) modules to automate the deployment of observability infrastructure across our AWS environments.
• Data processing & transformation: building and maintaining data processors, primarily in Python, to transform, filter, and enrich telemetry data for optimal ingestion and analysis, including the calculation of DORA metrics.
• Cross‑account integrations: engineering seamless and secure data flows between our feature teams’ AWS accounts and our central monitoring infrastructure.
• Building reusable assets: creating standardized "building blocks" and reusable assets that empower development teams to easily integrate their applications with our observability platform.
• Ensuring platform reliability: maintaining and continuously improving our existing observability infrastructure, focusing on performance, security, and cost efficiency.
• Driving observability best practices: advocating for and implementing effective monitoring, logging, and tracing strategies across the organization, and documenting our approaches in our developer portal.
• Working closely with other engineering teams to increase their observability maturity.

Qualifications

• Excellent command of the English language, both oral and written.
• Strong intrinsic motivation to enable engineering teams through proactive feedback collection, running workshops, and providing hands‑on support (including temporary embedding within product teams). Strong communication skills are key.
• Proven experience in system design for complex, distributed cloud environments.
• Strong proficiency with IaC frameworks, particularly OpenTofu/Terraform, for building modular and generic solutions.
• Solid experience in developing data processors and automation scripts in Python.
• In‑depth knowledge of data pipelines in AWS, including services such as CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, Kinesis (Firehose/Streams), and Lambda.
• Experience with OpenTelemetry concepts and tools, including the OpenTelemetry Collector, for standardized telemetry collection.
• Experience with GitLab CI/CD pipelines for automated builds and deployments.
• Familiarity with New Relic or similar observability platforms (e.g., Splunk, Datadog).

Benefits

• Job in which you can use your expertise to contribute to the sustainability of the Netherlands.
• A gross monthly salary between €5,807 and €8,253.
• A bonus of 10 % of your annual salary.
• 30 days’ holiday and 8 % holiday pay.
• Opportunity to work within a hybrid model.
• Discount on your energy bill and on all products of our service partners (solar panels, heat pump, maintenance, etc.).
• Development and growth opportunities and an associated personal development budget of €500 per year.
• International opportunities within the E.ON group.
• An environment where you can be yourself, and lack of mandatory disclosure of gender, nationality, or age in your CV.