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Observability Engineer Specialist

meridiantalent.co.zaURL Unverified
Sandton, South AfricaFull-timeSeniorOn-siteIT & TechnologyPosted 3 Sept 2026

Job Overview

Implement and maintain observability solutions that provide end-to-end visibility into system performance and reliability across digital channels. Deploy and optimise observability platforms, design telemetry pipelines, and integrate with cloud and container environments.

Key Responsibilities

- Deploy, configure and maintain observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, ELK Stack and OpenTelemetry.

- Design and optimise observability systems across infrastructure, applications and services.

- Monitor system health and analyse metrics, logs and traces to detect anomalies.

- Define and track SLIs, SLOs and error budgets.

- Participate in incident response, root cause analysis and post-incident reviews.

- Implement observability in cloud and containerised environments.

- Automate observability workflows and integrate into CI/CD pipelines.

- Write scripts in Python, Bash or PowerShell to automate operational workflows.

- Maintain architecture diagrams, configuration standards and operational playbooks.

- Collaborate with development, infrastructure, SRE and operations teams.

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field.

- AWS Certified Solutions Architect or equivalent preferred.

- ITIL Foundation certification preferred.

- Advanced scripting skills in Python or Bash.

- 5+ years' experience in observability, monitoring or site reliability engineering.

- Experience with observability platforms and telemetry pipeline design.

- Familiarity with cloud platforms and container orchestration.

- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) advantageous.

- Experience in Agile or DevOps environments advantageous.

- Strong analytical, collaboration and communication skills.