Requirements: English
Company: ERGO Technology & Services
Region: Gdask , Pomeranian Voivodeship
About Us
ERGO Technology & Services S.A. (ET&S S.A.) was established in January 2021 following the integration of ERGO Digital IT and Atena into one entity, leveraging both companies strengths and best practices. As a part of ERGO Technology & Services Management AG, the technology holding of ERGO Group AG, we support millions of internal and external customers with state-of-the-art IT solutions to everyday problems.
In October 2022, ET&S S.A. expanded its scope of operations by creating a Business Services unit to contribute in a new way to the growth of ERGOs business. Acting as a co-partner and internal consultant, it adds non-IT value and supports the development of the entire ERGO Group, currently offering skills in reporting, analysis, actuarial, and input management. We are committed to fostering innovation and meeting the evolving needs of our clients worldwide.
Discover how we implement AI, IoT, Voice Recognition, Big Data science, advanced mobile solutions, and business-related services to anticipate and address our customers future needs.
About the role
As a Solution Architect, you will be responsible for defining the strategic direction of observability and monitoring within the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) service. This role focuses on architectural decisions, designing integrations, ensuring best practices, and advising SRE engineers and consulting customer teams on how to leverage observability tools (e.g. Datadog) effectively.
How you will get the job done
- defining the strategic vision for site reliability engineering, observability and platform engineering and planning tactical steps for implementation
- leading the design and governance of observability tooling, ensuring scalability, security, and cost efficiency
- scouting and analysing new observability features matching them to business needs and notifying the engineers about potential improvements
- designing collaboration and integration models
- defining standards/best practices/observability framework including alerting, SLOs, and distributed tracing across digital products
- configuring, integrating, administering, and maintaining observability for all relevant digital products, using Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- ensuring comprehensive monitoring coverage across digital products
- supporting, advising, and coaching SRE engineers on the best ways to useobservability tools
- supporting SRE engineers in troubleshooting and optimizing monitoring configurations
- guiding and mentoring engineers in implementing provisioning and configuration of observability tools using Infrastructure as Code
- engaging with the observability tool vendors to discuss complex technical issues and feature enhancements
- answering technical questions from product teams
- negotiating technical aspects of observability tools during procurement discussions to ensure optimal setup
Skills and experience you will need
- fluency in English
- expertise in observability tools (architecture, governance, integrations, APM, security best practices)
- strong Platform Engineering and Observability Architecture experience
- strong Infrastructure as Code (IaC) knowledge and experience (e.g. Terraform)
- experience with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles
- experience designing log management, APM, infrastructure monitoring, and synthetic testing solutions
- knowledge of distributed tracing, metrics, and telemetry collection
- familiarity with cloud environments (Azure, Kubernetes, Databricks)
- strong strategic thinking and vision-setting for observability and reliability
- excellent stakeholder communication and coaching abilities
- experience negotiating with vendors and external service providers
- ability to lead and mentor engineers, ensuring effective implementation of observability tooling
Nice to have
- German language proficiency
Perks & Benefits
Let's be healthy
Medical package, sports card, and numerous sports sections these are some of the benets that help our employees stay in good shape.
Let's be balanced
Work-life balance is a key aspect of a healthy workplace. We offer our employees flexible working hours, a confidential employee assistant program, as well as the possibility of remote working. However, staying at home with our in-office gaming room and dog-friendly office in Warsaw wont be easy.
Let's be smart
We organize numerous workshops and training courses. Thanks to hackathons and meetups, our specialists share their expertise with others. Additionally, we have