Rituals

Retail

StaffEngineer-Cloud&Observability

€105–145k ~AI est. Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands FULL TIME
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The Brief

“Staff Engineer - Cloud & Observability at Rituals. Skills: Cloud foundation, Observability platform, GCP, OpenTelemetry. Define technical vision for GCP cloud foundation. Define long-term technical roadmap for GCP cloud foundation”

Industry & Context.

Retail

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Extensive experience in cloud engineering, SRE experience, Infrastructure experience, Platform design experience, Senior technical roles experience, Senior architectural roles experience, Broad organizational influence, Deep expertise in GCP, Hands-on experience designing enterprise-grade cloud foundations, Hands-on experience operating enterprise-grade cloud foundations, Focus on scalability, Focus on automation, Focus on self-service, Focus on reliability, Platform engineering experience, Building internal developer platforms, Building paved roads, Building infrastructure-as-code solutions, CI/CD practices, Policy-as-code practices, Solid experience in secure platform engineering, Experience with identity and access management, Experience with secure-by-design patterns, Experience with enterprise networking, Experience with security controls, Familiarity with governance, Familiarity with cloud security posture, Deep knowledge of observability, Deep knowledge of OpenTelemetry, Experience designing enterprise observability capabilities, Experience implementing enterprise observability capabilities, Translate technical complexity into clear direction, Translate technical complexity into decisions, Translate technical complexity into mentoring

Nice to Have

Experience with Terraform, Experience with OpenTofu, Experience with Crossplane, Experience with Pulumi, Experience with CPAM, Experience with CSPM topics

What You'll Do.

Define technical vision for GCP cloud foundation

Define long-term technical roadmap for GCP cloud foundation

Define technical vision for enterprise observability platform

Define long-term technical roadmap for enterprise observability platform

Design core cloud platform capabilities

Evolve core cloud platform capabilities

Ensure secure foundation

Ensure scalable foundation

Ensure standardized foundation

Lead design of new enterprise observability platform

Lead implementation of new enterprise observability platform

Enable end-to-end visibility

Build self-service platform capabilities

Establish platform standards

Evolve platform standards

Establish platform guardrails

Evolve platform guardrails

Establish platform governance models

Evolve platform governance models

Influence architectural direction

Enable clear technical decision-making

Enable scalable technical decision-making

Enable well-governed technical decision-making

Improve platform adoption

Improve developer experience

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Platform teams; Product teams; Senior stakeholders; Technology Platforms; Leadership

Communication Scope

RFCs; ADRs

Process & Methodology

Roadmap planning

Full Job Description

As Staff Engineer – Cloud & Observability, you will help shape the technical foundation that enables engineering teams across Rituals to build, scale and operate with confidence. You will be part of our Technology Platforms organisation, where we create resilient, secure and easy-to-use platform capabilities. Rituals is a fast-growing global company, expected to continue significant expansion in the coming years. This growth requires strong, scalable and standardised cloud and observability platforms that enable teams to deliver reliably at increasing scale. In this role, you will define the technical vision and long-term roadmap for our Google Cloud foundation and enterprise observability capabilities. Your scope includes cloud landing zones, identity and access management, networking, policy frameworks, security controls and a new observability platform based on OpenTelemetry standards. This is a strategic role at the heart of our shift from a project organisation to a product operating model. You will work closely with other platform teams, product teams, and senior stakeholders. By combining technical leadership and platform thinking, you will help create reusable platform capabilities that improve reliability, security and developer experience for product teams across Rituals, enabling faster delivery and accelerating time-to-value. In this role, you will: * Define the technical vision and long-term technical roadmap for our GCP cloud foundation and enterprise observability platform, in close partnership with the Product Owner and Head of Technology Platforms. * Design and evolve core cloud platform capabilities such as landing zones, identity and access management, networking, security controls and policy frameworks, ensuring a secure, scalable and standardised foundation for engineering teams across Rituals. * Lead the design and implementation of a new enterprise observability platform based on OpenTelemetry standards, enabling end-to-end visibility across l

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