We are currently looking for an Elastic Search Engineer to strengthen the Cronos Europa team. As a member of the infrastructure and operations team, you will act as a Technical Lead to drive observability transformation initiatives. You will be responsible for designing and implementing enterprise-wide monitoring and observability solutions, leading legacy platform migrations, and defining governance standards to ensure scalability, reliability, and operational excellence across the IT ecosystem.
General information:
- Start Date: ASAP
- Duration: Long-term mission
- Workload: Full-Time
- Location: Luxembourg
- Shift Work : Yes
- On-Call: Yes
Responsibilities:
- Design and implement enterprise observability solutions covering logs, metrics, traces, and synthetic monitoring.
- Lead the migration of legacy monitoring platforms, including Splunk and Newtest/Ekara, towards modern observability tools.
- Define and maintain target observability architectures based on Elastic Stack and related technologies.
- Establish monitoring standards, governance frameworks, and performance KPIs across the organization.
- Create and manage dashboards to provide visibility into application performance, availability, latency, and error rates.
- Implement distributed tracing and performance monitoring capabilities for microservices and API-based architectures.
- Deploy anomaly detection and intelligent correlation mechanisms to proactively identify incidents and performance degradations.
- Collaborate with DevOps, SRE, and development teams to integrate Observability-as-Code and performance monitoring into CI/CD pipelines.
- Define alerting strategies, root-cause analysis processes, and incident detection best practices.
- Ensure security, governance, and lifecycle management of the observability platform.
Technical skills:
- Strong expertise with Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), including clustering, data tiering, RBAC security, and lifecycle management (ILM).
- Hands-on experience with observability and monitoring platforms such as Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus, and ELK Stack.
- Experience leading Splunk-to-Elastic migration projects.
- Knowledge of synthetic monitoring solutions and automated end-user journey testing.
- Experience with Playwright and TypeScript is considered a strong asset.
- Good understanding of distributed tracing, APM solutions, and modern observability concepts.
- Experience deploying monitoring solutions in cloud and microservices environments (AWS and/or Azure).
- Strong scripting and automation skills using Python and/or Bash.
- Experience integrating monitoring and observability components into CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Jenkins).
- Knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker environments.
- Experience with machine learning-based anomaly detection and data correlation is an advantage.
Profile:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent professional experience.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in Observability Engineering, Monitoring Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or a related field.
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with the ability to identify and resolve complex performance issues.
- Proven experience designing enterprise-scale monitoring and observability architectures.
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to drive technical transformation initiatives and mentor technical teams.
- Excellent communication and documentation skills.
- Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams in complex environments.
- Proactive mindset with strong problem-solving and continuous improvement capabilities.
- Relevant certifications in Dynatrace, Cloud Monitoring, Elastic, or Performance Testing are considered an asset.
- Fluency in English is mandatory. French is considered a strong asset.
Why Cronos Group?
We'll propose you:
- An attractive salary package
- A good work-life balance environment
- The assurance of working in cutting-edge technologies in an entrepreneurial spirit.
- The opportunity to develop your skills thanks to tailor-made training courses according to your needs
- A good job in a friendly place
If you wish to integrate a dynamic structure on a human scale while working with the latest technologies, don't wait anymore and join Cronos!
