Aurora Engineering AB

Technical Project Manager

Aurora Engineering AB Gothenburg, Sweden

IT Services and IT Consulting · 11-50 employees

14 h ago
project-manager Senior (5-10 yrs) Full-time Sweden
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About the role

You will lead and coordinate complex technical projects focused on cloud observability initiatives across multiple engineering teams. This includes managing platform migrations, technology adoption, and ensuring the successful integration and operational readiness of observability solutions.

What they look for

Technical Project Management Cloud Observability Cloud-native Environments Monitoring Logging Metrics Distributed Tracing Alerting Grafana Datadog OpenTelemetry Kubernetes Stakeholder Management DevOps Site Reliability Engineering Platform Engineering

Requirements

The role requires solid experience in technical project management within cloud environments and a strong understanding of modern software architectures. Candidates should possess expertise in observability tools and the ability to bridge the gap between business stakeholders and technical teams.

Full description

We are looking for an experienced Technical Project Manager – Cloud Observability to drive and coordinate strategic observability initiatives within modern cloud-native environments.

In this role, you will lead complex technical projects focused on enhancing monitoring, logging, metrics, distributed tracing and alerting capabilities across cloud platforms and connected services.

You will work closely with architects, platform engineers, DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams to drive the adoption of modern observability solutions, potentially leveraging technologies such as Grafana, Datadog, Open Telemetry and Kubernetes.

We are looking for someone who dares to challenge existing approaches, brings people together, drives technical discussions and takes ownership of delivering successful outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

  • Drive and coordinate complex technical projects across multiple engineering teams and stakeholders.
  • Lead planning, execution and follow-up of cloud observability initiatives.
  • Coordinate platform migrations, technology adoption and implementation activities.
  • Work closely with architects, platform engineers, DevOps and SRE teams.
  • Drive initiatives related to monitoring, logging, metrics, distributed tracing and alerting.
  • Coordinate the adoption of observability technologies such as Grafana, Datadog and OpenTelemetry.
  • Manage project dependencies, risks, priorities and technical blockers.
  • Facilitate technical discussions, challenge assumptions and support decision-making.
  • Coordinate internal and external stakeholders to ensure alignment and timely delivery.
  • Ensure delivered solutions are successfully adopted, integrated and operationally ready.
  • Provide regular project updates and maintain transparency on progress, risks and outcomes.

Required Skills & Experience

  • Solid experience as a Technical Project Manager managing complex technical projects.
  • Experience working with cloud platforms, software engineering or platform engineering initiatives.
  • Good technical understanding of cloud environments, DevOps and modern software architectures.
  • Experience coordinating multiple technical teams with different priorities and dependencies.
  • Understanding of observability concepts, including monitoring, logging, metrics, distributed tracing and alerting.
  • Familiarity with observability tools such as Grafana, Datadog and OpenTelemetry.
  • Understanding of Kubernetes and cloud-native environments is an advantage.
  • Strong stakeholder management, communication and coordination skills.
  • Ability to challenge technical assumptions, facilitate discussions and drive alignment.
  • Structured, pragmatic and result-oriented approach to project delivery.

Ideal Candidate Profile

  • A confident project leader who takes ownership and drives initiatives forward.
  • Someone who can bridge the gap between business stakeholders and technical engineering teams.
  • Comfortable working in complex, fast-moving cloud and software engineering environments.
  • Able to understand technical discussions, ask the right questions and challenge proposed solutions.
  • Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to identify and resolve dependencies and blockers.
  • Focused on outcomes, successful adoption and long-term operational readiness.

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