Observability Engineer

Avaloq AG; Makati; On-site; PHP 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Avaloq AG in Manila is seeking an Observability Engineer to design, deploy, and operate a comprehensive observability stack across cloud environments. You will own logging, metrics, tracing and alerting to improve visibility and uptime.

Collaborating with DevOps and SRE teams, you will use Terraform for IaC, define standards, optimize performance, and implement end-to-end monitoring with automated alerts to proactively detect incidents.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and operating large-scale observability stacks.
• Hands-on with Terraform and IaC tooling.
• Strong collaboration with DevOps/SRE teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement a robust observability stack for logging, metrics, monitoring, alerting, and tracing in cloud environments.
• Integrate observability tools with cloud services and infrastructure for full visibility.
• Use Terraform to automate provisioning and deployment of observability tooling and infrastructure.
• Define and enforce organization-wide monitoring and alerting standards.
• Continuously refine the stack to improve performance and minimize downtime.
• Implement end-to-end monitoring to assess performance, availability, and reliability of IT workloads.
• Establish best practices for metrics, logs, and traces across the stack.
• Develop automated alerts for proactive issue identification and resolution.
• Collaborate with DevOps, SRE, and development teams; communicate complex insights to stakeholders.

Skills

Terraform

Observability

Logging

Monitoring

Tools

Terraform

Job description

As an Observability Engineer you will be part of a team that is responsible for managing and operating our observability stack, ensuring E2E monitoring, metrics collection, logging and tracing across our infrastructure and applications. You will collaborate with other stakeholders to improve system visibility, detect issues proactively and drive performance optimization.

This role requires strong technical expertise and hands‑on experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform and application analysis.

Your key tasks

Observability Stack Design & Deployment

• Design and implement: build a robust observability stack encompassing logging, metrics collection, monitoring, alerting, and tracing systems tailored for cloud environments
• Integration: seamlessly connect observability tools with cloud services and infrastructure to achieve comprehensive monitoring and visibility
• IaC Development: use Terraform to automate the provisioning and deployment of observability tools and infrastructure, ensuring consistency and efficiency

Monitoring and Optimization

• Monitoring standards: define and enforce organization-wide monitoring and alerting standards for real-time incident detection
• Optimization: continuously refine the observability stack to enhance system performance, minimize downtime, and optimize resource utilization

End-to-End Monitoring Practices

• Comprehensive tracking: implement end-to-end monitoring solutions that provide insights into the performance, availability, and reliability of IT workloads
• Standardization: establish best practices for metrics, logs, and traces, ensuring holistic visibility across the technology stack
• Automated alerts: develop automated alerting systems for proactive issue identification and resolution.

Technical Collaboration

• Cross-team integration: work closely with DevOps, SRE, and application development teams to align observability strategies with operational objectives.
• Stakeholder engagement: communicate complex technical insights clearly to stakeholders, enabling informed decision-making.