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