Observability engineer
BH-296017
Posted: 25/02/2025
- Competitive
- Netherlands Provincie Gelderland Arnhem
- Contract
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IT
Job Title: Medior Observability Engineer
Unit: Business Technology Organization (BTO)
We are partnering with a leading European transmission system operator, responsible for the development, maintenance, and operation of high-voltage electricity grids across the Netherlands and large parts of Germany. Their work plays a crucial role in the energy transition, ensuring safe and reliable electricity supply for millions of users.
Role Overview: We are looking for an Observability Engineer to join the Business Technology Organization (BTO) team. This team focuses on developing and implementing IT technologies, supporting digital transformation, and fostering a data-driven culture. You will be working within the Infrastructure, Integration & Cloud (IIC) team, managing platforms, databases, and monitoring systems with a focus on automation and self-service.
Key Responsibilities:
With over 90 years' combined experience, NES Fircroft (NES) is proud to be the world's leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Chemicals, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining and Manufacturing sectors worldwide. With more than 80 offices in 45 countries, we are able to provide our clients with the engineering and technical expertise they need, wherever and whenever it is needed. We offer contractors far more than a traditional recruitment service, supporting with everything from securing visas and work permits, to providing market-leading benefits packages and accommodation, ensuring they are safely and compliantly able to support our clients.
Unit: Business Technology Organization (BTO)
We are partnering with a leading European transmission system operator, responsible for the development, maintenance, and operation of high-voltage electricity grids across the Netherlands and large parts of Germany. Their work plays a crucial role in the energy transition, ensuring safe and reliable electricity supply for millions of users.
Role Overview: We are looking for an Observability Engineer to join the Business Technology Organization (BTO) team. This team focuses on developing and implementing IT technologies, supporting digital transformation, and fostering a data-driven culture. You will be working within the Infrastructure, Integration & Cloud (IIC) team, managing platforms, databases, and monitoring systems with a focus on automation and self-service.
Key Responsibilities:
- Implement and manage observability tooling such as Elastic Stack, Prometheus, and Grafana
- Develop standard observability blocks for application management
- Analyze infrastructure and identify key monitoring elements
- Handle incident management and troubleshooting
- Automate processes with Python scripts, HELM charts, Ansible playbooks, and Go
- Manage and update monitoring environments, ensuring stability and upgrades
- At least 3 years of experience as an observability engineer
- Experience with Elastic Stack (preferably Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes)
- Knowledge of Kubernetes clusters and distributed systems (e.g., Elasticsearch, Kafka)
- Familiar with CI/CD workflows (Jenkins, ArgoCD)
- Skilled in programming languages like Go and Python
- Experience with automation and Infrastructure-as-Code (Ansible, Jenkins)
- Comfortable in Linux server environments
- Willing to participate in on-call duty (1 in 5 weeks)
- Customer-oriented and results-driven
- Strong communicator in English and Dutch (minimum B2 level)
- Independent and accurate work ethic
- Strong decision-making and planning skills
- Location: Arnhem (Hybrid work, 2 days in the office, mandatory Tuesdays in Arnhem Rijnpoort)
- Pre-employment screening required
- Start date: ASAP
- Interview process: 2-3 rounds
With over 90 years' combined experience, NES Fircroft (NES) is proud to be the world's leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Chemicals, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining and Manufacturing sectors worldwide. With more than 80 offices in 45 countries, we are able to provide our clients with the engineering and technical expertise they need, wherever and whenever it is needed. We offer contractors far more than a traditional recruitment service, supporting with everything from securing visas and work permits, to providing market-leading benefits packages and accommodation, ensuring they are safely and compliantly able to support our clients.