Operational Engineer – Security & Observability (OpenTelemetry, API) (m/f/d)
- REMOTE
- Start: 16.09.2026
- 10 hours ago
- Job type:
- Project
- Duration:
- 10 months + option
- Scope of work:
- full-time
- Languages:
- English
ID: 179829
Westhouse is one of the leading international recruitment agencies for the procurement of highly qualified experts in fields such as IT lifecycle management, SAP, engineering, commerce and specialist consultancy.
For our client we are currently looking for a Operational Engineer – Security & Observability (OpenTelemetry, API) (m/f/d) - REMOTE.
Your tasks
- Support Security and Observability initiatives for FinOps Insights
- Support the adoption of Central Observability under CTB-1774
- Work closely with the existing engineering team on development and operational activities
- Support productive services and operational processes
- Handle incidents, troubleshooting and root-cause analysis
- Support customer requests and production-related issues
- Monitor productive services and analyze logs
- Support CI/CD pipelines and release processes
- Perform Kubernetes deployments, troubleshooting and log analysis
- Maintain and improve operational runbooks
- Contribute to documentation and knowledge transfer
- Drive continuous improvement of operational processes
- Prioritize and execute operational tasks efficiently
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Your qualifications
- Experience working with TypeScript and Node.js environments
- Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and release processes
- Practical experience with Kubernetes, including deployments, troubleshooting and log analysis
- Experience supporting productive services and operational processes
- Experience with incident management and root-cause analysis
- Strong understanding of operational processes in engineering environments
- NICE TO HAVE:
- Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry APIs and SDKs
- Strong understanding of distributed tracing and span context propagation
- Experience with metrics collection, including counters, histograms and gauges
- Experience with structured logging and log correlation
- Experience with Jira and GitHub
- Experience with VS Code and/or IntelliJ
- Experience with API clients such as Bruno
- Experience with database clients such as DBeaver
- Experience working with AI/LLM models
- Experience with Cronicle, Concourse, Grafana and GitHub Actions