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About Us: GBT Solutions is a Portuguese technology company founded in 2018, part of the HFA Group established in 1995. With a focus on delivering cutting-edge solutions across various industries, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment and are proud to be recognized for our commitment to excellence and innovation.
Position: Senior Observability Engineer
Location: Luxembourg (Hybrid)
Responsibilities
Application Observability & Monitoring
- Implement and scale observability solutions across applications and services (logs, metrics, traces).
- Consolidate Dynatrace, ELK Stack, Prometheus, Grafana into a unified visualization and monitoring ecosystem.
- Define KPIs and build global dashboards for application health, latency, and error rates.
- Enable distributed tracing for microservices and API architectures.
- Deploy ML‑based correlation and anomaly detection to identify performance trends and root causes.
Enterprise Architecture Design
- Define the target Elastic Enterprise cluster architecture.
- Design cost‑optimized data tiering strategies (Hot/Warm/Cold).
- Implement enterprise‑grade RBAC, governance, and lifecycle management.
Legacy Migrations
- Lead the full migration from Splunk to ELK.
- Decommission Splunk forwarders and deploy Elastic Agents.
- Migrate Newtest/Ekara user‑journey scenarios to modern synthetic testing solutions.
- Integrate synthetic testing results with Elastic APM.
Observability Governance & Continuous Improvement
- Establish monitoring standards and performance KPIs for the Elastic platform.
- Work closely with DevOps, SRE, and application teams to embed Observability‑as‑Code into CI/CD (GitLab).
- Define alerting, correlation strategies, and best practices for incident detection and root‑cause analysis.
Experience & Background
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent senior experience in Observability Engineering.
- Strong experience with Splunk‑to‑ELK migrations.
- Deep knowledge of Elastic Stack clustering, ILM, and data tiering.
- Experience with synthetic testing; Typescript/Playwright is a plus.
- Hands‑on experience with Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus in cloud/microservices environments (AWS/Azure).
- Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash) and CI/CD integration (Jenkins, GitLab).
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and Docker for automated monitoring deployments.
Equal Opportunity: GBT Solutions is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We do not discriminate based on age, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, disability, or any other factor other than merit.