Associate Observability Engineer

ASDA; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK retailer is seeking an Associate Observability Engineer to enhance monitoring and logging systems. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and implement observability features using New Relic. The role offers a competitive salary and excellent benefits, with a hybrid working model requiring at least 3 days a week in the office. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a dynamic environment focused on engineering excellence.

Benefits

Discretionary company bonus

Company pension up to 7% matched

15% colleague discount

Free access to wellbeing services

Excellent parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Experience with tools like New Relic for monitoring.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Understanding of observability as code practices.

Responsibilities

• Implement observability features using New Relic.
• Collaborate with teams for monitoring requirements.
• Document observability processes and configurations.

Skills

Knowledge of New Relic

Understanding of observability concepts

Experience in CI/CD pipelines

Collaboration skills

Familiarity with OpenTelemetry

Tools

New Relic

Monitoring tools

DevOps tools

Job description

Job Title

Associate Observability Engineer

Location

Asda House

Employment Type

Full time

Contract Type

Permanent

Hours Per Week

37.5

Salary

Competitive salary plus benefits.

Category

Infrastructure

Closing Date

29 August 2025

We are looking for Associate Observability Engineer to report into the Engineering Manager and will work closely with observability engineers to implement monitoring, logging, and tracing capabilities across our systems, contributing to enhanced reliability, performance, and visibility. The role will involve strong collaboration with others - be it learning from examples of existing great engineering work, collaborating with others to create it or supporting engineers to implement observability.

This role will initially focus almost exclusively on development in New Relic, configuration and support, and over time evolve to include the wider goals of the team.

What You'll Love

• Assist in implementing observability features such as dashboards, alerts, logs, traces, and metrics using tools like New Relic
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (SRE, DevOps, Business units) to understand monitoring requirements and support delivery of observability solutions
• Support efforts to define and maintain observability-as-code (dashboards, alerts, tags, notification channels)
• Help instrument applications and infrastructure using standards such as OpenTelemetry
• Participate in troubleshooting and incident analysis to improve system monitoring and response capabilities
• Learn and apply best practices in CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and DevOps tooling
• Support initiatives to automate and standardize observability across environments
• Take part in team meetings, design discussions, and contribute ideas for improving observability and engineering processes
• Document observability configurations, Blueprints, processes, and standards for internal use

Everything you'll love

To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices.Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.

You will also get an excellent benefits package including:

• Discretionary company bonus
• Company pension up to 7% matched
• 15% colleague discount in store and online
• Free access to wellbeing services such as Wagestream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.
• Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
• Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves