Telemetry and Observability Engineer

Salary: £103, per year

• Proven experience in observability, SRE, or platform engineering roles within complex distributed environments
• Strong hands‑on experience with Open Telemetry, including building and managing telemetry pipelines
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Elastic/Splunk, Loki/Jaeger or similar
• Strong experience with Terraform or other infrastructure‑as‑code tools
• Solid understanding of cloud‑native environments (Kubernetes, microservices, distributed systems)
• Experience working within or alongside network engineering or infrastructure operations teams
• Programming experience in at least one language such as Python, Go, or Java
• Strong understanding of SLOs, SLIs, and modern reliability engineering practices
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills with a focus on automation and system reliability

• Design and implement scalable pipelines for metrics, logs, traces, and event data across distributed systems
• Build and enhance observability tooling, including dashboards, monitoring systems, alerting frameworks, and reliability standards
• Develop and maintain telemetry solutions using Open Telemetry and related open‑source technologies
• Automate observability infrastructure using Terraform and infrastructure‑as‑code practices
• Integrate monitoring and observability into CI/CD pipelines and SDLC processes
• Define and support SLIs, SLOs, and alerting strategies in collaboration with engineering teams
• Promote best practices in instrumentation, monitoring, and incident response
• Work with network and platform teams to improve visibility across infrastructure and services

• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Grafana
• Support
• Java
• Kubernetes
• Network
• Open Telemetry
• Prometheus
• Python
• Splunk
• Terraform
• microservices
• AI
• Dev Ops

We are seeking a highly skilled Telemetry & Observability Engineer to join our large‑scale enterprise engineering environment in London. This contract position offers £475-£515 per day, is inside IR35, and requires 3 days on site over a 6-month period. Our focus is on improving system reliability, visibility, and operational intelligence across complex distributed platforms. We value innovation, collaboration, and expertise in building and automating observability solutions.

last updated 25 week of 2026