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Henkel holds leading positions in both industrial and consumer businesses: Our portfolio includes well-known hair care products, laundry detergents, fabric softeners as well as adhesives, sealants, and functional coatings.
Observability Engineer
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About this Position
Henkel is looking for an Observability Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team. In this role, you will help design, build, and continuously improve the observability foundation that gives our engineering teams deep visibility into the health and performance of our systems running on Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and OpenShift. You will work closely with platform engineering, cloud architecture and application teams to make sure the right signals — metrics, logs, and traces — are collected, visualized, and alerted on, so issues are caught before they impact users.
What you´ll do
- Design, build, and maintain observability pipelines across our multi-cloud environment (Azure, GCP), covering metrics, logs, and traces.
- Create and maintain dashboards that give engineering teams clear, actionable visibility into system health, performance, and business-relevant metrics.
- Integrate metrics collection across services and infrastructure, ensuring consistent instrumentation standards.
- Build and continuously improve alerting frameworks used to support on-call rotations, balancing signal quality with alert fatigue.
- Work with industry-standard observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, and the ELK Stack to collect, store, and visualize telemetry data.
- Operate and optimize APM tooling (e.g., Dynatrace, Datadog) to support application performance monitoring and root-cause analysis.
- Leverage Azure Monitor and Kusto Query Language (KQL) to build queries, alerts, and workbooks for Azure-hosted workloads.
- Leverage GCP Monitoring (formerly Stackdriver) for log and metrics aggregation across GCP-hosted services.
- Work on the Site Reliability Engineering practice focusing on co-defining SLOs and OLAs to translate collected metric points into business KPIs and subsequent dashboards
- Partner with platform, DevOps, and application engineering teams to define what "good observability" looks like for each service and help teams adopt it.
- Contribute to incident response and postmortem processes by improving the observability signals that support faster detection and diagnosis.
- Document observability standards, runbooks, and best practices to help scale knowledge across the engineering organization.
- Actively participate in the Community of Practice / Cloud guild to foster cross-domain knowledge sharing and reduce knowledge silos
What makes you a good fit
- 4 - 7 years of experience.
- Experience working with cloud platforms, ideally Azure and/or GCP.
- Hands-on experience with industry-standard observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, and the ELK Stack.
- Experience with Time Series (e.g. InfluxDB) and Log retention strategies using tools such as Thanos
- Experience with PromQL, KQL/Kusto and other Query Languages
- Experience with APM tools such as Dynatrace or Datadog.
- Proven ability to design and build dashboards and integrate metrics collection across services.
- Experience creating or maintaining alerting frameworks that support on-call duty.
- Familiarity with Azure Monitor and Kusto/KQL for querying and alerting.
- Familiarity with GCP Monitoring, including log and metrics aggregation.
- Solid understanding of platform engineering or DevOps practices and how observability fits into the broader software delivery lifecycle.
- Fluent English (required); German language skills are a plus.
- Comfortable working in a remote-first setup while staying closely connected with a distributed team
- Willingness to travel to main Henkel IT sites (max. once per quarter) for team workshops
- Experience in scripting (Python, Bash, Go) and other DevOps (OpenTofu) tooling is a plus, but not a must.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., OpenTofu and Ansible).
- Familiarity with distributed tracing concepts and tools (e.g., OpenTelemetry).
- Prior participation in an on-call rotation for production systems.
- Scripting experience (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell) for automating observability tasks.
Some perks of joining Henkel
- Flexible work scheme with flexible hours, hybrid work model, and work from anywhere policy for up to 30 days per year
- Diverse national and international growth opportunities
- Global wellbeing standards with health and preventive care programs
- Gender-neutral parental leave for a minimum of 8 weeks
- Employee Share Plan with voluntary investment and Henkel matching shares
- Comprehensive Health Insurance for employee + dependents
- Employee Assistance Programme provides a wide range of mental health and wellbeing benefits
At Henkel, we come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe the uniqueness of all our employees is the power in us. Become part of the team and bring your uniqueness to us! We look for a diverse team of individuals who possess different backgrounds, experiences, personalities and mindsets.
JOB ID: 26101496
Job Locations: Egypt, Cairo
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I am interested in several jobs. Can I apply for multiple positions at the same time?
Yes – simply fill out your profile in our online application system. Once your online profile is complete, you can apply for multiple positions.
The job offer is written in English. Should I write my application in English as well?
Yes, please. As Henkel is an international company, you will be working with colleagues from all over the world, and English is our official company language. Generally, our recommendation is to please write the application in the same language as the job ad.
Do I get feedback during the application process about the state of my application?
Each position that we have open with Henkel is unique, and finding the right candidate is important for both the hired candidate as well as for Henkel. We want to make sure that both the candidate and the company are a good fit for each other. We will provide feedback to the candidates throughout the entire process.
Can employees move between business areas and/or to a different country?
Yes, in fact, it is our expectation that Henkel employees will want to grow and explore different career paths during their time with us. This helps to support the company on a broad, global level.
Our “Triple Two” philosophy promotes this expectation, by allowing you to work in at least two different roles, in two different business areas and in two different countries. The reason behind this philosophy is that we believe working in different roles, business units and functions is good for your personal development and improves your understanding of Henkel as a global company.
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