Monitoring Engineer – Platform Engineering
Location: L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona
Working model: Hybrid
Language: Professional English
We are looking for a Monitoring Engineer to develop, administer and continuously improve the platforms that provide visibility across complex infrastructure and cloud environments.
This position focuses on monitoring platform engineering and ownership, rather than traditional NOC or first-line alert response.
What you will do
- Deploy, configure and maintain enterprise monitoring and observability platforms.
- Onboard new infrastructure, applications and services into the monitoring ecosystem.
- Configure agents, collectors, proxies, forwarders, templates, custom checks, discovery rules and dashboards.
- Design and tune alerts, thresholds and event correlation to reduce false positives and alert fatigue.
- Integrate monitoring platforms with ITSM tools such as ServiceNow to automate ticket creation and escalation workflows.
- Develop integrations and automation using APIs, webhooks and scripting.
- Perform platform upgrades, patching,



capacity planning and performance optimisation.
- Maintain platform availability, security, resilience and disaster recovery procedures.
- Troubleshoot complex platform issues and perform root-cause analysis.

What we are looking for
- Production experience administering and maintaining monitoring or observability platforms, rather than only responding to their alerts.
- Hands-on experience with tools such as Zabbix, Nagios/OMD, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Centreon, LogicMonitor or similar.
- Experience creating templates, custom checks, alerts, dashboards and integrations.
- Understanding of monitoring architecture, agents, collectors, data ingestion and platform dependencies.
- Experience integrating monitoring with ITSM or ticketing workflows.
- Scripting or automation experience with Python, PowerShell, Bash or Ansible.
- Good knowledge of Windows and Linux infrastructure and core networkin

📌 Monitoring Engineer – Platform Engineering (Barcelona)
🏢 IKIGAI TALENT GROUP
📍 Barcelona