Thales

Observability Engineer

Thales
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3 days ago
Prague, CzechiaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Assess and enhance monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting capabilities across the observability platform.
  • Design, build, optimize, and iterate on observability solutions for system and service health visibility.
  • Help teams create clear, informative, and actionable dashboards.
  • Automate monitoring and alerting processes, including enrichment strategies and ML-driven anomaly detection where applicable.
  • Collaborate with architects, global service delivery, ICO, and product development teams.
  • Develop and execute a unified observability strategy and roadmap aligned with business and operational goals.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of professional experience, including experience focused on observability.
  • Hands-on experience with monitoring, logging, and tracing tools such as Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, OpenTelemetry, ELK Stack, or similar.
  • Experience with high-volume structured and unstructured data storage.
  • Strong technical background and willingness to work hands-on when needed.
  • Excellent knowledge of Linux and scripting languages including Bash, Python, and Golang.
  • Excellent knowledge of cloud and on-premise systems administration principles.
  • Significant understanding of DevOps principles.
  • Strong collaboration, communication, documentation, organization, and cross-functional teamwork skills.
  • BS/MS in computer science, engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience.

Benefits

  • Supportive workplace culture emphasizing respect, trust, collaboration, and passion.
  • Career development and international mobility opportunities across Thales’s global organization.
  • Flexible working approach.

Tech Stack

BashDatadogGoGrafanaLinuxPrometheusPython

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About Thales

10,000+ employees

Thales designs and sells defense, aerospace, space, and digital identity/cybersecurity systems to governments, armed forces, infrastructure operators, and enterprises. Its portfolio spans avionics, radars and sensors, satellites, air traffic management, secure communications, and cybersecurity and identity solutions (bolstered by the 2019 Gemalto acquisition). Headquartered in Meudon, France, Thales is publicly traded on Euronext Paris (HO) and reported €20.6 billion in sales in 2024.

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