Observability & Tooling Leader, Cloud-Native Reliability

Planet; Warszawa; Hybrid; PLN 260,000 - 380,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Planet is looking for an Observability & Tooling Lead to steer its observability transformation and tooling strategy. You will lead a three-engineer team across monitoring, alerting, dashboarding and CMDB/ITSM integrations, partnering with Engineering, Infrastructure, Cloud and Operations to deliver reliable, scalable observability for Planet's global payments platform.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years in monitoring/observability with hands-on experience in enterprise stacks (Splunk, Coralogix,

Qualifications

• 7+ years in monitoring/observability/operations tooling with team leadership.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise monitoring and modern observability stacks (Splunk, Coralogix, Grafana, Datadog, Site24x7, Pingdom, Idera, Netreo, SolarWinds).
• Strong opinions about alert quality and experience cutting pager noise.
• Experience with CMDB and ITSM tooling integration (Device42, Jira ecosystems valuable).
• Automation mindset with Python, PowerShell, APIs, IaC or similar technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Observability & Tooling team: three engineers across monitoring, alerting, dashboarding and tooling integration.
• Own the operations tooling estate — monitoring, alerting, CMDB and ITSM integrations — including vendor and license management.
• Drive modernisation of observability tooling from on-prem-licensed platforms to modern cloud-native ones.
• Define and enforce golden-signal monitoring standards (latency, traffic, errors, saturation) for critical services.
• Own the pager-quality budget: test-mode onboarding for new alerts, acceptance criteria, and reduction in non-actionable pages.
• Partner with Command Centre, SRE and engineering teams so observability serves operations.
• Own the tooling roadmap and its alignment to SLO and AIOps ambitions.

Skills

Observability leadership

Monitoring & alerting

Automation with IaC

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Splunk

Datadog

Grafana

Coralogix

Site24x7

Pingdom

Idera

Netreo

SolarWinds

Device42 / CMDB tooling

Job description

Planet is looking for an Observability & Tooling Lead to steer its observability transformation and tooling strategy. You will lead a three-engineer team across monitoring, alerting, dashboarding and CMDB/ITSM integrations, partnering with Engineering, Infrastructure, Cloud and Operations to deliver reliable, scalable observability for Planet's global payments platform.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years in monitoring/observability with hands-on experience in enterprise stacks (Splunk, Coralogix,