Senior Observability Engineer
📍 Zurich
Role and responsibilities
Design, implement, and operate observability and AIOps capabilities for cloud-native and hybrid environments, supporting reliable, production-grade services. Lead the onboarding of early adopter teams and services, defining and applying standards for telemetry, SLIs, SLOs, and alerting in real-world systems. Work hands-on with engineering, SRE, and operations teams to gather requirements and translate them into actionable observability and automation solutions. Build and maintain telemetry pipelines, dashboards, and alerting, leveraging OpenTelemetry to deliver meaningful insights and reduce operational noise. Run and evolve observability services in Kubernetes environments, using Helm and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), integrating with ITSM, ticketing and event management systems.
Team / description
SIX drives the transformation of financial markets. What sets us apart drives us ahead: between local roots and global relevance, we are a unique blend of tradition and future, of foundation and growth. We value bright minds and inspire them to grow with their ideas. Come and shape the future of finance with us.
Qualifications and Skills
5+ years of hands-on experience in observability, SRE, platform, or reliability engineering, operating and supporting production systems
Experience building or scaling observability capabilities, ideally in greenfield or early-stage environments, and turning requirements into working solutions
Strong practical knowledge of modern observability practices, including OpenTelemetry, metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerting
Solid experience with cloud-native environments, operating Kubernetes-based workloads using Helm and Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform)
Experience with common observability toolchains (such as Grafana and Elastic Stack), with scripting or automation skills considered a plus