Mid-level Platform Engineer Observability

For a client of ours – an international financial institution, we are looking for an experienced Platform Engineer (DevOps).

About the job:

Be the eyes and ears of our client’s platforms with a role that puts you at the heart of performance, reliability, and resilience.  The Observability Engineer will design and optimize cutting-edge monitoring solutions across hybrid and cloud-native environments. From SolarWinds and Prometheus to Azure Monitor and Grafana, you’ll build scalable, intelligent observability platforms that deliver deep insights through metrics, logs, and distributed traces.

Bring your scripting skills, automation mindset, and deep telemetry knowledge to life, whether it’s deploying via Terraform or integrating with ITSM workflows. This is your chance to shape the digital nervous system of the enterprise, driving operational excellence through proactive monitoring and rock-solid insights.

If you’re fluent in observability and passionate about system intelligence, let’s push the boundaries of performance together.

Accountabilities & Responsibilities

Technology experience in this area includes, but is not limited to:

• SolarWinds Observability.

• ManageEngine App Manager.

• Open-source monitoring tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.

• Microsoft Azure monitoring services.

• Scripting and automation.

• Design, automate, and optimize observability platforms for logging, metrics, and tracing.

• Expertise in consolidating and analysing application/system logs at enterprise scale, including familiarity with distributed tracing technologies, and integrating with ITSM platforms.

• Proficient in scripting languages (Python, Bash, PowerShell) for task automation. Experience with Terraform or Ansible for deploying and configuring monitoring/logging infrastructure.

• Strong understanding of protocols (WMI, SSH, SNMP) and methods (API, Traps) for data gathering.

• Knowledge of Azure monitoring services, container monitoring.

• Understanding of telemetry standards for interoperability

Knowledge, Skills, Experience & Qualifications

• Designing, ,implementing and supporting COTS and Open Source monitoring solutions

• Understanding of software development principles and troubleshooting application issues

• Understanding of infrastructure management principles and troubleshooting practices

• Understanding of performance monitoring approaches

• Knowledge of Azure monitoring services, container monitoring.

• Understanding of telemetry standards for interoperability

• Intermediate to advanced technology certification in the given specialism

• Entry-level service management certification, such as ITIL Foundation.

What is it like to work at the company?

Our agile and innovative approach is what makes life at the bank a unique experience! You will be part of a pioneering and diverse international organisation, and use your talents to make a real difference to people’s lives and help shape the future of the regions we invest in.

The bank’s environment provides you with:

• Varied, stimulating and engaging work that gives you an opportunity to interact with a wide range of experts in the financial, political, public and private sectors across the regions we invest in;
• A working culture that embraces inclusion and celebrates diversity;
• An environment that places sustainability, equality, and digital transformation at the heart of what we do.

• Diversity is one of the Bank’s core values, which are at the heart of everything it does.

A diverse workforce with the right knowledge and skills enables connection with our clients, brings pioneering ideas, energy, and innovation. The bank staff is characterised by its rich diversity of nationalities, cultures, and opinions, and we aim to sustain and build on this strength. As such, the bank seeks to ensure that everyone is treated with respect and given equal opportunities and works in an inclusive environment. The bank encourages all qualified candidates who are nationals of the bank member countries to apply regardless of their racial, ethnic, religious, and cultural background, gender, sexual orientation, or disabilities.

They offer hybrid and flexible working arrangements and believe that they operate at their best when collaborating 3 days a week in person (minimum).