Senior Observability Engineer

Nottingham Trent House (95002), United Kingdom, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire – Senior Observability Engineer

This role is part of the team responsible for the monitoring of Capital One UK’s systems and applications.

• Supporting the engineers in our delivery teams as they onboard new applications onto Capital One UK’s monitoring tools. This will involve providing them with help and guidance, whilst ensuring that the monitoring and logging is set up in accordance with Capital One’s standards.
• Partnering with engineers across the enterprise to improve monitoring platform capabilities
• Platform support for monitoring tools across SAAS and AWS.
• Leveraging AI to increase scope of monitoring and alerting
• Supporting a number of internally written solutions that extend our monitoring capabilities – for example collecting logs from AWS Lambda functions.
• Project engineering work to deliver new monitoring capabilities.
• Providing support and mentoring for more junior monitoring engineers.

The role requires knowledge of some (but not all) of the following monitoring tools:

• Logz.io
• Open telemetry (OTEL)
• New Relic
• Observe
• A basic knowledge of Amazon Web Services, and Linux and Windows servers is also important.

This is a permanent position and is based in our Nottingham office. We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working model - one that creates the opportunity to work in your own way, but also provides great spaces for in-person collaboration.

We’re big on collaboration and connection, so you’ll be based in our Nottingham office 3 days a week on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.

• Bring us all this – and you’ll be well rewarded with a role contributing to the roadmap of an organisation committed to transformation
• We offer high performers strong and diverse career progression, investing heavily in developing great people through our Capital One University programmes (and appropriate external providers)
• Immediate access to our core benefits including pension scheme, bonus, generous holiday entitlement and private medical insurance – with flexible benefits available including season‑ticket loans, cycle to work scheme and enhanced parental leave
• Open‑plan work spaces and accessible facilities designed to inspire and support you. Our Nottingham head‑office has a fully‑serviced gym, subsidised restaurant, mindfulness and music rooms.

We pride ourselves on hiring the best people, not the same people. Building diverse and inclusive teams is the right thing to do and the smart thing to do. We want to work with top talent: whoever you are, whatever you look like, wherever you come from. We know it’s about what you do, not just what you say. That’s why we make our recruitment process fair and accessible.

And we offer benefits that attract people at all ages and stages.

We also partner with organisations including the Women in Finance and Race At Work Charters, Stonewall and up Reach to find people from every walk of life and help them thrive with us. We have a whole host of internal networks and support groups you could be involved in, to name a few:

• REACH – Race Equality and Culture Heritage group focuses on representation, retention and engagement for associates from minority ethnic groups and allies
• Out Front – to provide LGBTQ+ support for all associates
• Mind Your Mind – signposting support and promoting positive mental wellbeing for all
• Women in Tech – promoting an inclusive environment in tech
• Empow
  
  HER - network of female associates and allies focusing on developing future leaders, particularly for female talent in our industry
• Enabled – focused on supporting associates with disabilities and neurodiversity

Capital One is committed to diversity in the workplace.

At Capital One, we’re building a leading information‑based technology company. Still founder‑led by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Fairbank, Capital One is on a mission to help our customers succeed by bringing ingenuity, simplicity, and humanity to banking. We measure our efforts by the success our customers enjoy and…