Lead Site Observability Engineer
We are looking for hands-on Lead Site Observability Engineers with strong Observability Architecture experience to support migrations from third-party observability tools to the SAP One Observability target stack.
Responsibilities
- Plan and technically lead migration front runners
- Design telemetry flows for metrics, traces and logs using OpenTelemetry
- Coordinate with SAP LoBs, BTP, GCO, SRE and Operations teams
- Identify feature gaps, risks and architectural blockers
- Prepare architecture documents, decision logs, best practices and migration-readiness reports
- Present progress and recommendations to technical and management stakeholders
- Lead teams and workstreams across platform, SRE, operations and application teams
- Own solution design, technical decisions and documentation of gaps and risks
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in observability architecture, including hands-on work with OpenTelemetry Collector, Prometheus and Grafana in production environments
- Expertise in designing telemetry pipelines covering metrics, logs and traces, including configuration of receivers, processors, exporters and routing
- Experience leading complex technical migrations from tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic or Datadog to OpenTelemetry/cloud-native architectures
- Strong architecture, stakeholder-management and communication skills
- Knowledge of cloud-native monitoring, telemetry routing and observability platforms
- Familiarity with SAP BTP is an advantage
Nice to have
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) tools and Jaeger
- Knowledge of Elasticsearch and OpenSearch
