Platform Engineer

HCL is a $11 billion leading global technology enterprise consisting of over 200,000 professionals operating from 52 countries. Founded in 1976, HCL is one of India's original IT garage start-ups. For more on HCL, please visit www.hcl.com

Job Role- Observability Engineer / Platform Engineer Work Location – Amsterdam, Netherlands Duration- Permanent

Job Description:

Role Overview We are looking for a mid-level

Observability Engineer / Platform Engineer

to support our transition from a self-managed observability stack to a more standardized and fully managed/SaaS model. The role focuses on improving observability standards, simplifying operations, and assisting with the migration of monitoring, logging, and tracing into a modern, cloud-based environment. This position is ideal for someone with solid hands-on skills in observability tools and cloud-native environments, who is ready to contribute to a structured migration initiative.

Key Responsibilities Support the improvement and streamlining of our observability platform across logging, metrics, and tracing. Assist in the migration from a self-hosted stack to a managed/SaaS observability platform. Work with engineering teams to establish consistent dashboards, alerts, and basic service monitoring practices. Help define and roll out foundational observability standards (dashboards, alerting rules, instrumentation basics). Ensure data collection pipelines (agents/collectors) are configured, stable, and efficient. Contribute to ongoing health, reliability, and performance of the observability tooling. Collaborate with platform, application, and security teams on integration and onboarding tasks.

Required Skills Candidates should have 3–6 years’ experience with most of the following: Technical Skills Experience with

observability tools

such as Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, or similar. Good understanding of

Kubernetes

(EKS or equivalent) and cloud-native environments. Familiarity with OAC(Observability as a code),

metrics, logs, and traces fundamentals . Experience deploying/configuring

agents or collectors

(Grafana Alloy, Promtail, OTEL Collector, etc.). Strong understanding of

dashboards, alerting , and common monitoring patterns. Basic Infrastructure-as-Code experience (Terraform, Helm, GitOps workflows). General Skills Comfortable working across multiple teams and supporting migration activities. Strong troubleshooting skills—able to investigate issues across applications and infrastructure. Good communication skills: able to explain monitoring requirements to engineers and stakeholders.

Nice-to-Have Skills Exposure to

Grafana Cloud

or other SaaS observability services. Knowledge of

SLIs/SLOs

and reliability best practices. Experience with multi-cloud or hybrid observability data sources. Understanding of network fundamentals (VPCs, connectivity concepts)