Experienced Observability Engineer, Permanent contract

As a Lead Observability Engineer, you will play a crucial role in designing, deploying, and managing robust observability platforms for both cloud and on-premises infrastructures. Your mission will be to ensure the performance, reliability, and security of our clients’ systems by implementing comprehensive monitoring and SIEM solutions. You will work closely with cross-functional teams and security specialists to deliver seamless, end-to-end insights and respond effectively to security incidents. Key Responsibilities Design, deploy, and manage observability platforms to monitor cloud and on-premises infrastructure; Integrate and maintain data ingestion pipelines to centralize logs and metrics; Develop dashboards and alerts to ensure system performance, reliability, and security; Implement and maintain SIEM systems and SOC rules to detect, analyze, and respond to security incidents; Collaborate with security teams to write and tune correlation rules, detection logic, and threat intelligence feeds; Coordinate with cross-functional teams to deliver seamless end-to-end monitoring and insights. Qualifications Must-Have: Hands-on experience with the Elastic Stack (Beats, Logstash, Elasticsearch, Kibana, X-Pack) or related technology; Experience with log and metrics collection agents (e.g., Fluent Bit, Prometheus, Grafana, Filebeat); Familiarity with Linux systems, networking, and infrastructure monitoring concepts; Proficiency in writing detection rules and custom alerts. Nice-to-Have: Knowledge of SIEM platforms (Elastic SIEM, Azure Sentinel, Splunk, etc.); Knowledge of Kubernetes and container-based observability (e.g., using Prometheus Operator, OpenTelemetry, Fluent Bit with ECK); Experience with scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash) for automation and analysis; Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible); Familiarity with project management practices or experience leading implementation projects.