Monitoring Engineer - Site Reliability - Utilities Sector

Monitoring & Observability Engineer

Overview

A leading organization operating critical infrastructure is seeking an experienced Monitoring & Observability Engineer to strengthen its Site Reliability Engineering capabilities within a modern engineering environment.

The consultant will be responsible for improving the reliability, scalability, performance, and observability of business-critical on-premises platforms. Working closely with cross-functional engineering teams, the role focuses on monitoring architecture, automation, operational excellence, and incident management.

Assignment Details

• Location: Brussels, Belgium
• Work Model: Hybrid
• On-site Presence: Minimum 2 days per week
• Workload: Full-time
• Language: English (C1 minimum)
• Additional Languages: French, Dutch and/or German considered an asset
• On-call Support: Participation in a 24/7 incident support rotation required

For non-EU candidates, a valid Belgian work authorization and residence permit are required.

Role Responsibilities

As a Monitoring & Observability Engineer, you will:

Monitoring & Observability

• Design, implement and maintain enterprise monitoring platforms.
• Develop dashboards, visualizations, and alerting strategies.
• Implement distributed tracing and log aggregation solutions.
• Define and promote monitoring standards and best practices.
• Establish and maintain SLI/SLO frameworks.
• Improve operational visibility across infrastructure and applications.

Infrastructure & Reliability

• Manage and optimize Linux-based environments.
• Support on-premises infrastructure reliability and scalability.
• Maintain security and compliance standards for monitoring platforms.
• Contribute to capacity planning and performance optimization.
• Participate in infrastructure troubleshooting and root cause analysis.

Automation & Engineering

• Automate deployment, monitoring, and configuration management processes.
• Develop automation scripts and tooling.
• Collaborate with development teams to implement application instrumentation.
• Improve operational efficiency through engineering best practices.

Operations

• Participate in incident response and on-call rotations.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives aimed at reducing service disruptions.
• Balance business priorities with technical requirements and operational risks.

Required Technical Skills

Monitoring & Observability

• Advanced Grafana
• Prometheus (including PromQL)
• OpenTelemetry
• Elasticsearch

Infrastructure

• Linux administration
• Networking fundamentals
• On-premises infrastructure management
• Security and compliance practices

Programming & Automation

At least one of:

• Python
• Bash
• Go

Required Experience

Mandatory

• Minimum 3 years of experience in monitoring and observability engineering.
• Minimum 2 years of hands-on production experience with Grafana and Prometheus.
• Strong Linux system administration experience.
• Proven experience supporting and maintaining on-premises infrastructure environments.
• Experience implementing monitoring, alerting, logging and observability solutions.
• Understanding of enterprise security and compliance requirements.

Soft Skills

• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to prioritize effectively.
• Capable of balancing technical trade-offs against business objectives.
• Excellent collaboration and stakeholder communication skills.
• Proactive mindset and ownership mentality.

Key Deliverables

The consultant will contribute to:

• Reduced Mean Time to Detect (MTTD).
• Reduced Mean Time to Recover (MTTR).
• End-to-end observability across platforms and services.
• Automated monitoring, deployment and operational processes.
• Security-compliant monitoring and observability practices.
• Improved platform reliability and operational efficiency.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate combines strong Site Reliability Engineering expertise with deep monitoring and observability knowledge. They are comfortable operating complex on-premises environments, automating operational processes, and supporting mission-critical services through proactive monitoring and incident response.

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) • Monitoring • Observability • Grafana • Prometheus • PromQL • OpenTelemetry • Elasticsearch • Linux Administration • Python • Bash • Go • Automation • Incident Management • Infrastructure Monitoring • Logging • Distributed Tracing • Hybrid • Brussels • English C1 • On-Premises Infrastructure