Observability lead

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We love to see people grow.
We empower our teams, customers, and partners to move forward.

Kramp is the leading European specialist in spare parts and technical solutions for the agricultural, forestry, and construction sectors. With operations in more than 20 countries, Kramp combines logistics excellence, deep domain knowledge, and smart digital solutions to make life easier for our customers.

To support our long-term strategy, Kramp is delivering a multi-year business and technology transformation program. This includes replacing legacy ERP systems with modern, cloud-based platforms across core processes such as Finance, Procure-to-Stock, and Order-to-Deliver. High-quality, predictable delivery is critical to the success of this transformation. In this program we work with a Systems Integrator, multiple other external parties, internal product teams, technical teams and business people.

For a successful program we need to ensure that all elements on program delivery are covered and maintained at a sufficient quality level.

About the role

We’re looking for an experienced Observability Lead to drive the strategy, design, and implementation of our new observability platform. This role will lead the workstream on a daily basis, coordinating across teams, guiding tool selection, and ensuring successful integration across enterprise platforms and hybrid environments.

What will you do?

• Lead the observability workstream end‑to‑end, from strategy through implementation and adoption.

• Own the evaluation, selection, and rollout of the enterprise observability platform.

• Design and implement integrations across cloud and on‑premise environments.

• Define and promote best practices for logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerting, and event correlation.

• Establish cost‑efficient ingestion, storage, and operational models to optimise performance and scalability.

• Provide clear communication and reporting to Directors, VPs, and senior stakeholders.

• Provide hands-on technical support and guidance to teams.

• Drive documentation, enablement, and change management to ensure adoption across the organisation.

Who are you ?

• 10+ years of experience leading complex, cross‑functional IT initiatives, including observability or monitoring transformations.

• Strong IT background in Infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or Engineering.

• Proven experience integrating platforms in enterprise environments, including hybrid and multi‑cloud setups.

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, including working with senior leadership.

• Hands‑on, pragmatic, collaborative, and able to work both strategically and operationally.

Some facts about us

• We work in a Product Model and use data to drive decisions.

• We invest in people – you own your growth, with support when you need it.

• With 60+ nationalities, we are an open, inclusive, international community.

• We value transparency, collaboration, and pragmatic decision-making.

What do we offer?   

We are an ambitious, fast-growing and financially sound organization. Besides your monthly salary, you can obviously expect:  

• 25 vacation days and 12 ADV days (based on a fulltime NL contract) 

• Flexible working policy in hours and location 

• Travel- and working from home allowance 

• Profit sharing bonus

• Great budget for training and courses 

• Generous pension plan 

• Available for 32–40 hours per week. 

Do you want to join us?  
In case you feel challenged by the above role description and requirements,

we are interested in meeting you! Please use the application button and send your CV and cover letter. 

About us  

Thanks to our ambitions we are active throughout Europe: a leading position in the agricultural market for parts. We heavily invest in E-Business and innovations. Our aim is to make it easy for our customers to run their business. Working at Kramp means working with over 3500 international colleagues.

The people at Kramp are enthusiastic, professional and involved. We speak our customers’ language, understand their challenges and earn their trust to exceed their expectations. Our promise “It’s that easy” is embedded in our culture and DNA.   

Working at Kramp means:  

… you belong here! Being part of our open business community  

… your work makes a difference! Have an impact on what matters  

… you will develop and realize! Learn and realize your potential 

More about Kramp: https://www.careeratkramp.com/nl-nl  

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Varsseveld (NL)