#DIGITAL CAMPUS - Observability IT operation specialist

Job Description:
#DIGITAL CAMPUS - End to end monitoring support

An opportunity for an End to end monitoring support has arisen within Airbus Helicopters (Albacete, Spain)

WHY JOIN US?
📍 LIFE IN ALBACETE: QUALITY & CONVENIENCE -
Albacete is a dynamic, historic city in Spain, located in the region of Castilla-La Mancha. This modern urban center, known for its rich cultural heritage, and it is conveniently close to Madrid and the Mediterranean coast.
Forget long commutes. Albacete offers you the great advantage of a “15-minute city": safe, accessible, comfortable and perfectly connected. Enjoy a premium standard of living at a competitive cost, ensuring you have the perfect balance between your career and your personal life.
🚁 AIRBUS HELICOPTERS: GROW WITH US - We offer more than a job; we offer a community. Immerse yourself in a young, collaborative environment that feels like family. As a strategic Center of Excellence, we are a global leader in helicopter production, offering you endless potential to grow alongside our major projects.
✨THE PROJECT: SHAPING THE FUTURE - Welcome to the Digital Campus, a pioneering ecosystem dedicated to industrial digitalization and innovation. This is more than just a workplace; it is a technological hub where we define the future of flight.
Bring your ideas to a dynamic, modern ecosystem and help us build the next generation of aerospace solutions.

DESCRIPTION

- Your main missions are focused on leveraging the integration of the observability tools in the Airbus Helicopters digital landscape and to optimize their usage. You will manage the automation of our testing and observability ecosystems. In this role, you will eliminate manual operational toil, ensure that our systems are highly observable, and build a robust, automated testing pipeline that accelerates our deployment velocity without compromising stability.
You will bridge the gap between development, testers, and operations by automating our existing workflows, standardizing our observability stack, and taking a hands-on approach to deploying test automation infrastructure.

YOUR CHALLENGES
- Automation of Existing Operations

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- Modernize & Automate: Take full ownership of our current operational baseline by identifying and automating existing manual or semi-manual processe

- Deployment as Code: Transition legacy deployment strategies into fully codified, automated "Deployment as Code" pipelines.

- Configuration Management: Streamline, maintain, and expand our automated operational tasks (e.g., standardizing and scheduling Ansible jobs, cron jobs, and maintenance scripts).

- Observability & Monitoring Automation

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- OpenTelemetry (Otel) Deployment: Take the lead on designing, deploying, and maintaining OpenTelemetry across our entire infrastructure to standardize the collection and routing of traces, metrics, and logs.

- Extensions Development: Design, write, and maintain custom plugins, exporters, and extensions for our observability ecosystem. You will build tailored monitoring solutions to extract deep telemetry data from proprietary applications, legacy systems, and niche infrastructure that out-of-the-box tools cannot reach.

- Test Automation Infrastructure

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- Test Automation Deployment: Take a direct, hands-on role in deploying, configuring, and scaling the testing frameworks and automation tools utilized by the software teams.

SKILLS

- Master's degree level (or equivalent) in Information Technology or related field

- Experience with observability tools (monitoring, testing, alerting, open telemetry) is a plus

- General knowledge on IT infrastructure (network, technical infrastructure) and ITIL concepts

- Knowledge in scripting languages to develop automation (Python, Java, Custom API integration)

- Automation & Scripting: Strong proficiency in configuration management and automation tools, specifically Ansible .

- Deployment as code

- Proficiency in creating and managing technical documentation

- Proven production environment management; strong troubleshooting skills

- Curious, open-minded, collaborative team player with strong communication skills

- Autonomous, organized, delivery/customer-oriented, technology enthusiast and crisis facing robustness

- Experience working on projects with international teams and stakeholders

- Fluent English

WHICH BENEFITS WILL YOU HAVE AS AIRBUS EMPLOYEE?
At Airbus we are focused on our employees and their welfare. Take a look at some of our social benefits:

- Vacation days plus additional days-off along the year (Apróx. 35 days per year in total).

- Attractive salary.

- Hybrid model of working: we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.

- Collective transport service subject to working calendar/home location.

- Benefits such as life insurance, health insurance, employee stock options, retirement plan, or study grants.

- On-site facilities (among others): free canteen, kindergarten, medical office.

- Possibility to collaborate in different social and corporate social responsibility initiatives.

- Excellent upskilling opportunities and great development prospects in a multicultural environment.

- Option to access special rates in products & benefits.

Take your career to a new level and apply online now! 🚁

Since this position is managed transnationally, please submit your documents (CV and/or cover letter) in English.

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Company:
Airbus Helicopters España, SA
Employment Type:
Permanent -------

Experience Level:
Entry Level
Job Family:
Digital
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At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.