Observability Engineer: Cloud, CI/CD & SRE

Vitality; Johannesburg; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus scheme

Retirement match

Health plan

Life & disability insurance

Job summary

Vitality invites an experienced Observability Engineer to join the Platform Operations team in a hybrid role based in Sandton. You will design, implement and maintain observability solutions to boost health, performance and reliability of applications and infrastructure across cloud environments.

You will work with CI/CD pipelines, SRE and DevOps teams to embed observability-first practices, create dashboards, automate logging and tracing, and support rapid incident response in a dynamic,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or related field.
• 5+ years’ experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering or similar technical role.
• 5+ years’ hands-on experience with observability tools and platforms.
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms including AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Experience with Kubernetes and containerised environments.
• Understanding of microservices architectures and distributed systems.
• Experience with AIOps and predictive monitoring approaches.
• Knowledge of FinOps principles and cost observability practices.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace or similar platforms.
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools and Infrastructure-as-Code technologies including Terraform, ARM or CloudFormation

Responsibilities

• Design and implement observability frameworks across distributed systems and cloud-based environments
• Establish standards for metrics, logging, tracing and monitoring to improve visibility across applications and infrastructure
• Build and maintain dashboards that provide real-time insight into system performance, availability and reliability
• Implement intelligent alerting solutions that reduce noise and improve issue detection and response times
• Develop and enhance centralised logging and distributed tracing capabilities to support root cause analysis
• Support incident response activities by providing actionable diagnostics and operational insights
• Identify observability gaps through post-incident reviews and drive continuous improvement initiatives
• Automate observability processes using scripting, Infrastructure-as-Code and platform tooling
• Integrate monitoring, logging and observability practices into CI/CD pipelines and engineering workflows
• Collaborate with DevOps, SRE and development teams to embed observability-first practices across the organisation

Skills

OpenTelemetry

CI/CD

APM

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering or related field

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Dynatrace

Job description

Vitality invites an experienced Observability Engineer to join the Platform Operations team in a hybrid role based in Sandton. You will design, implement and maintain observability solutions to boost health, performance and reliability of applications and infrastructure across cloud environments.

You will work with CI/CD pipelines, SRE and DevOps teams to embed observability-first practices, create dashboards, automate logging and tracing, and support rapid incident response in a dynamic,