Lead Observability Engineer | Enterprise SRE Leader

Tria; Greater London; On-site; GBP 92,000 - 148,000; Full time

Job summary

Tria is seeking a Senior Observability Engineer / SRE Lead to assess a complex hybrid estate and design consolidated telemetry across services, platforms, infrastructure and networks. You will work with internal teams, partners and suppliers to build telemetry ownership and dashboards that reflect system health.

The role covers short-term tactical delivery and longer-term strategic roadmapping, including SLIs, SLOs and burn-rate alerting, with a focus on centralised telemetry and OpenTelemetry

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading enterprise-scale observability initiatives.
• Strong hands-on expertise with Grafana and OpenTelemetry.
• Deep understanding of metrics, logs, traces, SLIs and SLOs.
• Experience across cloud and on-prem platforms.
• Knowledge of Azure monitoring tooling.

Responsibilities

• Discover and document existing telemetry sources, monitoring tools, dashboards and ownership.
• Work with technical teams and suppliers to gain access to telemetry.
• Deliver meaningful dashboards and service health views.
• Identify gaps in telemetry, monitoring and alerting coverage and implement pragmatic improvements.
• Define health indicators for critical business journeys.
• Introduce modern observability practices where practical, including SLIs, SLOs and the roadmap towards burn-rate alerting.
• Develop a roadmap for OpenTelemetry adoption.
• Assess options for a centralised telemetry platform, including Grafana Cloud.
• Evaluate tooling rationalisation opportunities, operating costs and telemetry economics.
• Define an observability target architecture, standards and implementation roadmap.

Skills

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Observability

Leadership

SRE

Tools

Azure Monitor

Grafana Cloud

Job description

Tria is seeking a Senior Observability Engineer / SRE Lead to assess a complex hybrid estate and design consolidated telemetry across services, platforms, infrastructure and networks. You will work with internal teams, partners and suppliers to build telemetry ownership and dashboards that reflect system health.

The role covers short-term tactical delivery and longer-term strategic roadmapping, including SLIs, SLOs and burn-rate alerting, with a focus on centralised telemetry and OpenTelemetry