Senior Data Observability Engineer
- Praha
- Trvalý pracovní poměr
- Plný úvazek
- Build, test, deploy and operate core data observability capabilities.
- Participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle for the data observability solution.
- Define and implement metrics, logs, alerts, and signals to make data workloads observable, reliable, and secure.
- Specify platform requirements, standards, and telemetry for cloud, CI/CD, and runtime environments to ensure reliable, secure, and cost-efficient operation of data products.
- Provide L3 production support and act as an engineering subject matter expert to support adoption and troubleshooting.
- Develop engineering guides, document engineering designs, best practices, and runbooks.
- Work within global Agile/Scrum teams, participate in planning, sprint ceremonies, and cross-functional reviews.
- Evaluate and validate new COTS products features within the CDAO ecosystem.
- Work with COTS product vendors on their solutions enhancements and integration into CDAO ecosystem.
- Define and automate scalable onboarding patterns for new data connection types within the data observability platform.
- Build, maintain and improve Infrastructure-as-Code modules, GitOps flows, and CI/CD pipelines for repeatable, auditable deployments across environments.
- Prepare for operation and deploy serverless components (Lambda, EventBridge, Kinesis) and object/data storage (S3); Glue crawlers and other ETL/metadata components.
- Implement and deploy components for platform health, reliability, and performance monitoring; build dashboards, alerts, and runbooks allowing iterations on platform services SLOs/SLIs.
- Optimize infrastructure costs and performance through rightsizing, autoscaling, savings plans/commitments, and architecture improvements.
- Proven experience as an AWS platform/infrastructure engineer supporting data workloads.
- Strong Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps skills: Terraform, Flux, Helm, GitHub (repos and actions).
- Hands-on experience designing and enforcing IAM roles/policies, VPC/subnet design, security groups, and network ACLs.
- Practical experience with Kubernetes on AWS (including Fargate), container deployments, RBAC, and Helm charts.
- Experience with serverless patterns and services: Lambda, EventBridge, Kinesis.
- Familiarity with S3 and AWS Glue (including Glue crawlers) and how they support data pipelines.
- Experience with infrastructure monitoring and observability (metrics, logs, tracing) and building dashboards/alerts.
- Demonstrated experience optimizing cloud costs and performance at the infrastructure layer.
- Solid skills in Python and SQL for automation, tooling, and supporting data teams.
- Comfortable working in Agile/Scrum environments and collaborating with cross-functional global teams.
- BSc in IT, Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
- Experience with data observability tooling or frameworks (great advantage).
- Hands-on Apache Airflow experience (deployment, DAG troubleshooting, scaling, metadata understanding).
- Knowledge of Grafana Labs stack (Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Agent) or similar observability ecosystems.
- Experience implementing policy-as-code, security automation, or compliance guardrails.
- Familiarity with SRE practices (SLOs/SLIs, incident response) and platform reliability engineering.
- Exciting work in a great team, global projects, international environment
- Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally
- Hybrid working model, flexible role pattern
- Competitive salary & incentive pay
- Pension and health insurance contributions
- Internal reward system and referral scheme
- 5 weeks annual leave, 5 sick days, 15 days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually, 40 paid hours annually for volunteering activities, 12 weeks of parental contribution
- Cafeteria for tax-free benefits according to your choice (meal vouchers, Lítačka, sport, culture, health, travel, etc.), Multisport Card
- Vodafone, Raiffeisen Bank, Foodora, and discount programmes
- Up-to-date laptop and iPhone
- Parking in the garage, showers, refreshments, massage chairs, library, music corner
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