Monitoring Engineer

TL;DR

Monitoring Engineer: Designing, implementing, and maintaining monitoring solutions for infrastructure, applications, and services with an accent on early issue detection, incident response, and operational excellence. Focus on analyzing incidents and monitoring data to detect trends, performance issues, and anomalies, and optimizing alerting strategies.

Location: Cracow, Rzeszow, Warsaw offices or remotely from Poland

Company

hirify.global is a company where innovation and effectiveness truly matter.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and maintain monitoring solutions for infrastructure, applications, and services.
• Create, improve, and manage dashboards, metrics, and alerting rules in tools like Grafana, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, or InfluxDB.
• Collaborate with development, DevOps, and operations teams to ensure observability of all critical systems.
• Analyze incidents and monitoring data to detect trends, performance issues, and anomalies.
• Optimize alerting strategies to reduce noise and improve detection of real issues.
• Maintain documentation related to monitoring processes, standards, and best practices.

Requirements

• A university degree in IT or a related field, and at least 3 years of experience in the IT industry.
• Hands-on experience with monitoring tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Zabbix, CheckMK, Datadog, Nagios, InfluxDB or ELK STACK.
• Ability to configure alerts and dashboards.
• Understanding of protocols and data formats such as SNMP, ICMP, HTTP(S), REST API, JSON, and YAML.
• Basic knowledge of Linux/Unix environments and networking (TCP/IP, DNS, routing, load balancing).
• Ability to analyze logs and correlate events (e.g., using Grafana Loki, ELK Stack, or Graylog).
• Proficient in English (able to read technical documentation and communicate clearly).

Nice to have

• Understanding of distributed systems and High Availability (HA) concepts.
• Experience with scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python, or Go).
• Familiarity with incident and ticket management tools (e.g., Jira, Opsgenie, PagerDuty).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of ITIL, DevOps, or SRE principles.

Culture & Benefits

• Real influence on shaping the hirify.global.
• Work in an environment where innovation and effectiveness truly matter.
• Competitive salary and flexible working conditions.
• Private medical healthcare.
• Internal and external training opportunities.