Senior Site Reliability Engineer - OpenTelemetry

Location: Greater London

We're looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Observability to join our team in London, United Kingdom in a hybrid working mode. You will be part of the Production Engineering – Observability team, driving the strategic initiative to implement and expand a modern observability platform built on Open Telemetry and Open Search. This program focuses on enhancing monitoring, resilience and operational stability for critical FIC trading systems by enabling faster incident detection, reducing outage duration and providing actionable insights across the technology estate.

This is a hands-on engineering role where you’ll define observability standards and deliver enterprise-scale solutions while promoting best practices for operational excellence.

Responsibilities Gather requirements and perform analysis of existing monitoring and observability platforms

Define observability standards, telemetry strategies and alerting frameworks

Implement Open Telemetry-based instrumentation and Open Search solutions across applications and infrastructure

Design dashboards, analytics and reporting to improve transparency and operational efficiency

Develop automation tools and processes to enhance observability and reduce manual overhead

Integrate observability frameworks with enterprise monitoring platforms such as Geneos Provide documentation and operational handover to ensure long-term sustainability

Apply Site Reliability Engineering principles to drive stability, scalability and incident reduction

Requirements

Proven experience as Senior SRE or Observability Engineer implementing enterprise-scale observability solutions

Strong expertise in Open Telemetry including instrumentation and telemetry pipelines

In-depth knowledge of Open Search for architecture, data indexing, optimisation and analytics

Experience developing dashboards and alerts using Grafana Familiarity with enterprise monitoring tools such as Geneos and related observability technologies

Practical understanding of Site Reliability Engineering practices and automation approaches

Background in high-availability or mission-critical environments; financial services experience is highly desirable

Nice to have Knowledge of anomaly detection, alert correlation, and incident response automation

Exposure to observability in cloud-native or hybrid architectures

We offerEPAM Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
Protection benefits including life assurance, income protection and critical illness cover

Private medical insurance and dental care Employee Assistance Program Competitive group pension plan Cycle scheme, Techscheme and season ticket loans

Various perks such as free Wednesday lunch in-office, on-site massages and regular social events

Learning and development opportunities including in-house training and coaching, professional certifications, and courses

If otherwise eligible, participation in the discretionary annual bonus program

If otherwise eligible and hired into a qualifying level, participation in the discretionary Long-Term Incentive (LTI) Program