Infrastructure & Observability Engineer (Linux / Kubernetes / DevOps)

About the role

FORFIRM is looking for an experienced and motivated Infrastructure & Observability Engineer to join its international team and work on projects for Europe's leading brands. The role covers Linux infrastructure, container orchestration, observability and DevOps automation.

Key responsibilities

• Manage, maintain and evolve enterprise Linux infrastructures (Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Debian) and support Docker and Kubernetes environments.
• Ensure system reliability, availability and performance through proactive infrastructure management.
• Contribute to patch management, system hardening and infrastructure lifecycle activities.
• Design, implement and manage monitoring and observability solutions, including dashboards, alerts and reports.
• Manage and optimize platforms such as Splunk, Icinga, Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace and related tools, and support automated monitoring of infrastructure, applications and critical services.
• Use DevOps and Infrastructure as Code best practices to automate deployment, configuration and monitoring, and integrate observability into CI/CD pipelines.
• Build automation workflows with Ansible, Terraform and Python, and develop scripts for operational tasks and integrations.
• Integrate monitoring, CMDB and ITSM platforms via APIs, and maintain CMDBs (preferably Device42) with accurate asset inventory and documentation.
• Support centralized management of secrets, credentials, keys and certificates, and help ensure monitoring complies with security and regulatory requirements.
• Act as subject matter expert, produce technical documentation and collaborate with infrastructure, development, security and operations teams.

Required profile

• Proven experience in infrastructure administration, monitoring and observability in enterprise environments.
• Solid background in DevOps methodologies, automation and operational excellence.
• Hands-on experience with monitoring, logging and alerting platforms, and in complex, highly available environments.
• Preferred: experience in financial services, banking or other highly regulated industries, and in SRE, Platform or Infrastructure Engineering roles.
• Preferred: experience defining enterprise monitoring and observability frameworks, knowledge of ITIL, and relevant certifications.

Required skills

• Linux administration, especially Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Debian.
• Docker and Kubernetes.
• Splunk, Icinga, Zabbix, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana.
• Ansible, Terraform and Python scripting.
• CMDB platforms (preferably Device42) and Git.
• Web monitoring and application health checks.

What we offer

• International multidisciplinary projects for leading brands from day one.
• A meritocratic environment with clear growth opportunities.
• Internal and external training programs.
• A supportive, collaborative team and exposure to modern infrastructure, cloud-native and observability technologies.