An opportunity is available for a Monitoring Architect responsible for defining, designing, and evolving enterprise monitoring solutions. The role focuses on building scalable and resilient monitoring architectures while ensuring observability platforms meet operational, security, and business requirements.
The position operates in close collaboration with Monitoring SREs, IT operations teams, system engineers, and application teams.
Key Responsibilities
The Monitoring Architect is responsible for designing and improving monitoring and observability solutions across infrastructure and applications.
Main responsibilities include:
- Design and maintain end-to-end monitoring architectures for infrastructure, systems, and applications
- Define monitoring standards, best practices, and design guidelines
- Evaluate, select, and integrate monitoring tools and technologies
- Design effective alerting strategies (thresholds, logic, escalation, noise reduction)
- Ensure monitoring solutions are scalable, resilient, secure, and maintainable
- Provide expert support to Monitoring SRE teams for complex incidents and technical issues
- Guide the onboarding of new systems and services into monitoring platforms
- Participate in root cause analysis (RCA) and drive monitoring improvements
- Document architectures, configurations, and operational procedures
- Contribute to continuous improvement of observability practices (metrics, alerts, dashboards, SLIs/SLOs)
Required Profile
Technical Skills
- Strong background in Linux system administration
- Solid experience in system engineering and IT operations
- Proven expertise in designing and operating monitoring solutions
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Hands-on experience with observability tools such as:
- Icinga
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Experience with metrics, alerts, dashboards, and monitoring automation
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Familiarity with automation and CI/CD tools:
- Jenkins
- GitLab
- Ansible
- Terraform
- Experience working with REST APIs across multiple tools and platforms
- Good understanding of networking, virtualization, and distributed systems
- Scripting or automation skills (e.g., Bash, Python)
Soft Skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Ability to collaborate across technical teams
- Capacity to explain complex technical concepts clearly
- Structured and documentation-oriented mindset
- Proactive and improvement-driven attitude
Nice to Have
- Experience with SRE practices (SLIs, SLOs, error budgets)
- Exposure to cloud and container environments (Kubernetes, cloud monitoring)
- Experience in reducing alert fatigue and improving monitoring efficiency
- Knowledge of Dynatrace Managed and Dynatrace certification
Requirements
- European Union citizenship is mandatory
- Fluency in English (written and spoken) is required
- Additional European languages are considered a plus
Professionals passionate about monitoring architecture and observability are encouraged to apply.
Die Möglichkeiten sind zahlreich. Von der Entwicklung reiner Anwendungen bis zur IT Infrastrukturmanagement inkl. Konzeption, Architektur und Anforderungen Analyse.
Obwohl ABAKUS IT-SOLUTIONS offen für Technologien ist, die von unseren Kunden eingesetzt werden, ist das Unternehmen bestrebt, hauptsächlich, aber nicht nur Berater, die Folgendes beherrschen: Windows- und Linux-Server, Netzwerke, (JAVA, SAP, .NET,...) sowie hochspezialisierte Experten, z.B. im Bereich Cybersicherheit oder in Content Management Systemen (CMS) (SharePoint, Drupal, WebLogic...).
In in Bezug auf nicht-technische Kompetenzen stellt ABAKUS IT-SOLUTIONS dynamische Personen ein, die in die Welt, interessiert an Innovation und mit einem ausgeprägten Gespür für Kunden Beziehung.
Ein sehr Gute Englischkenntnisse sind unerlässlich, die Fähigkeit, Französisch, Deutsch oder Niederländisch zu sprechen ist eine Bereicherung.
Sogar Obwohl die meisten unserer Positionen mindestens 3 Jahre Erfahrung erfordern, sind einige offen für Neueinsteiger.
