Observability Engineer CGEMJP

Role

Title:

Observability Engineer

Duration: 6 month contract

Location: Telford. Hybrid 2 days per month onsite

Rate: up to £598 p/d Umbrella inside IR35

Clearance required: You must be Eligible for SC Clearance

As an Observability Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting monitoring solutions across a range of technologies and platforms, ensuring service stability, performance insight, and proactive incident management.

• Translate high-level monitoring and non-functional requirements (NFRs) into actionable configurations in Dynatrace.
• Deliver full-stack observability solutions, including application-aware network performance monitoring (NPM), synthetics, log analytics, and infrastructure metrics.
• Collaborate with architects and project teams to integrate monitoring into solution designs and test strategies.
• Maintain and enhance dashboards, alerts, and visualisations to support proactive service management.
• Participate in continuous improvement initiatives and tooling exploitation to enhance operational efficiency within immature teams.

• Strong understanding and experience in SRE principals and methodologies, strong understanding of Observability within a complex tech stack, hands‑on experience with monitoring tools including Dynatrace.
• Strong understanding and experience with implementing and using APM tooling including Dynatrace, ability to analyse and resolve complex technical problems and document solutions effectively.
• Understanding of log and synthetic monitoring principles, able to work closely with technical and non-technical stakeholders, to bring them along on a journey of change, excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a proactive and detail-oriented mindset.

• Dynatrace Associate Certification