Telemetry and Observability Engineer x2
4 Days Old
We're working with a globally recognised financial markets organisation undergoing a significant evolution in how it monitors and understands its systems.
This is a hands-on contract role focused on improving and scaling an existing observability environment, with the opportunity to help shape and potentially build out a next-generation solution.
What You'll Be Doing
Designing and improving telemetry pipelines (metrics, logs, traces) across distributed systems
Enhancing monitoring, alerting, and observability standards
Working closely with engineering teams to improve system visibility and reliability
Integrating and optimising tools such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Kafka, Splunk, Elastic, Loki
Driving better incident response, root cause analysis, and performance insights
Embedding observability into the software development life cycle (CI/CD, testing, deployments)
What We're Looking For
Strong experience in Observability, SRE, or Platform Engineering
Hands-on expertise with modern telemetry and monitoring tooling
Experience working in cloud-native environments (Kubernetes, microservices)
Ability to define and improve SLIs, SLOs, and alerting strategies
Proficiency in at least one language (Python, Go, or Java)
Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform...
- Location:
- London
- Job Type:
- FullTime
- Category:
- Engineering