Senior DevOps Engineer (Observability) | Remote Europe | New Relic Migration Project
📍 Location: Europe (CET)
💻 Work model: Full Remote or Hybrid (Barcelona, Spain)
📅 Start date: April 1st
⏳ Duration: 6 months (+ possible 3-month extension)
🗣 Languages: English required | Spanish nice-to-have
🚀 Project Overview
We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer specialized in Observability to lead a strategic migration from Splunk to New Relic and help define observability standards across engineering platforms.
You will play a key role in establishing governance, implementing monitoring best practices, and enabling engineering teams with modern observability capabilities.
🎯 Key Responsibilities
* Lead the migration of monitoring systems from Splunk to New Relic, ensuring a smooth transition and adoption across engineering teams.
* Define and implement observability governance including account structures, tagging strategies, alerting standards, dashboards, and SLO frameworks.
* Establish and promote observability best practices and ways of working across multiple engineering teams.
* Implement end-to-end observability capabilities including logging, APM, infrastructure monitoring, distributed tracing, synthetics, and integrations.
* Partner with application teams to support service onboarding, instrumentation, and monitoring adoption.
* Automate observability setup and configurations using Terraform and integrate into GitHub CI/CD pipelines.
* Act as a technical advisor on Azure, Terraform, GitHub Actions, and observability architecture.
* Ensure monitoring strategies are aligned with SLIs/SLOs and reliability objectives.
* Contribute to the continuous improvement of platform reliability, performance, security, and operational excellence.
✅ Required Experience
* 8+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Platform Engineering roles.
* Strong hands-on experience with New Relic including APM, infrastructure monitoring, logs, dashboards, alerting, distributed tracing, synthetics, and performance optimization.
* Proven experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices, including modular design, provisioning, state management, and automation.
* Solid experience working with Azure Cloud, including resource management, networking, IAM, governance, and cost optimization.
* Strong experience with GitHub and CI/CD practices, including GitHub Actions, workflow automation, and repository governance.
* Practical experience implementing observability frameworks and monitoring strategies aligned with SLIs/SLOs.
* Experience working in complex engineering environments collaborating with multiple development teams.
* Strong communication skills and ability to provide technical guidance to engineering teams.
* Professional level of English.
⭐ Nice to Have
* Experience with Splunk
* Experience with SonarCloud
* Knowledge of Policy as Code (OPA, Conftest)
* Experience with Kubernetes (deployments, troubleshooting, Helm)
💡 What we offer
* High-impact international project
* Remote flexibility within Europe
* Modern cloud and observability environment
* Possibility of extension