Senior Observability Engineer — SIX Group
- Location
- Zurich
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- 49 days ago
Role overview
The Senior Observability Engineer is a hands-on role for someone who has already built production observability capabilities—not only consumed observability platforms as an end user.
You will help establish how telemetry is instrumented, collected, processed, visualized, alerted on, and governed across teams, leading early onboardings and shaping practical standards, processes, and ways of working.
- The Senior Observability Engineer is a hands-on role for someone who has already built production observability capabilities—not only consumed observability platforms as an end user.
- You will help establish how telemetry is instrumented, collected, processed, visualized, alerted on, and governed across teams, leading early onboardings and shaping practical standards, processes, and ways of working.
- experience deploying, configuring, and operating OpenTelemetry Collectors and designing telemetry pipelines is a strong advantage; these will be key hands-on responsibilities in the role
- experience with cloud-native environments, operating Kubernetes-based workloads
Main responsibilities
- experience deploying, configuring, and operating OpenTelemetry Collectors and designing telemetry pipelines is a strong advantage; these will be key hands-on responsibilities in the role
- experience with cloud-native environments, operating Kubernetes-based workloads
- experience with common observability toolchains and backends (e.g.: Elastic, Grafana, Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics, etc.) Elastic Stack experience considered a plus
- scripting or automation skills to support repeatable deployment, configuration, validation, and ongoing operations using technologies such as Helm, Terraform, and Ansible
Application process
- Working closely with platform, product, and application teams, you will translate requirements into working telemetry solutions across traces, metrics, and logs, with OpenTelemetry as a core and mandatory technology.
- This role follows a trace-centric approach: metric-based deviations help detect issues, traces are the primary investigation path, and logs are used when additional detail is required.
- This is an opportunity to shape observability standards and engineering practices at enterprise scale, with direct influence on how teams instrument, operate, and troubleshoot critical services.
- The Senior Observability Engineer is a hands-on role focused on building and delivering observability and AIOps as a shared engineering capability and service.
- You will help establish how observability is designed, implemented, and consumed across teams, leading early onboardings and shaping practical standards, processes, and ways of working.
- Working closely with platform, product, and application teams, you will translate requirements into actionable observability solutions, implement and operate core capabilities, and continuously improve how insights, alerting, and automation support reliable services.
- As a core contributor to the Observability & AIOps Center of Excellence, you will combine deep technical execution with strong ownership of service quality, operational readiness, and capability maturity What You Will Do
- design, deploy, and operate observability and AIOps capabilities for cloud-native and hybrid environments, supporting reliable, production-grade services
Contacts
- If you have any questions, check out our FAQ page or call Beata Czyzewska at +48 22 104 6571 / +41 58 399 9800 / +34 91 330 51 49 .
Additional details
- As a core contributor to the Observability & AIOps Center of Excellence, you will combine deep technical execution with strong ownership of service quality, operational readiness, and capability maturity
- design, configure, and maintain integrations with event management and ticketing systems for alert routing, incident context, and operational workflows
- experience with common observability toolchains and backends (e.g.: Elastic, Grafana, Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics, etc.) Elastic Stack experience considered a plus
Notes and original content
- What You Will Do
- What You Bring
- experience with common observability toolchains and backends (e.g.: Elastic, Grafana, Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics, etc.)
- Elastic Stack experience considered a plus
Questions about this listing
What salary does SIX Group offer for this role?
SIX Group lists CHF 101'500 - 154'000 gross per year for this position in Zurich. This is the salary published in the original listing (or, when the employer omits a figure, a realistic estimate for the role and sector) — the calculator on this site converts it to your actual net take-home once cross-border tax and social contributions are applied.
Is this a full-time role, and what type of contract does SIX Group offer?
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