Monitoring Senior Software Developer

Sky UK; Isleworth; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading media and broadcast company is looking for a Monitoring Senior Software Developer to design and implement advanced monitoring solutions. This role involves developing tools like Dataminer and Grafana to ensure high service availability. The ideal candidate will have experience in DevOps practices, scripting, and cloud-native tools. Join a dynamic team in a hybrid work environment, where your contribution will drive efficiency and innovation in media systems.

Benefits

Sky Q for TV

Exclusive Sky Glass rate

Generous pension package

Private healthcare

Discounts on mobile and broadband

Sky VIP rewards

Qualifications

• Proven experience in developing monitoring solutions.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD and infrastructure as code.
• Ability to integrate monitoring tools within automation frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop monitoring solutions using Dataminer.
• Collaborate with teams to define monitoring requirements.
• Contribute to optimizing monitoring architectures.

Skills

Experience with Dataminer

Understanding of DevOps practices

Expertise with cloud‑native tools

Scripting in C# and Python

Designing custom dashboards

Tools

Grafana

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

The Monitoring Senior Software Developer plays a key role in designing, implementing, and maintaining advanced monitoring solutions across broadcast and media systems. Working within a cross‑functional engineering team, this role focuses on developing scalable, reliable, and customizable monitoring tools, such as Dataminer and other platforms, to ensure high service availability and operational efficiency.

What You’ll Do

• Design and develop advanced monitoring solutions using platforms like Dataminer, Grafana, and custom integrations across broadcast and media infrastructures.
• Implement and maintain real‑time monitoring and observability across broadcast and media systems, ensuring high availability and performance.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to define monitoring requirements and translate them into scalable, reusable and innovative technical solutions.
• Integrate monitoring tools with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and automation frameworks.
• Develop and maintain dashboards and alerting rules to support proactive incident detection and resolution.
• Apply DevOps and SRE principles to improve system reliability, reduce toil, and enhance operational workflows.
• Contribute to the evolution and optimization of monitoring architectures, adopting modern development practices such as containerization, microservices, and API‑first design.
• Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, and continuous improvement initiatives within the team.
• Support the onboarding and customization of third‑party monitoring solutions and external components, ensuring seamless integration with existing infrastructure.
• Play a key role in connecting strategy and analysis with development and platform operations, fostering alignment and shared ownership throughout the entire monitoring lifecycle—from requirement definition to solution design and implementation.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in developing and integrating monitoring solutions, ideally with tools like Dataminer, Grafana, or similar platforms.
• Solid understanding of DevOps practices, including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, versioning and automation.
• Expertise with DevOps and cloud‑native tools.
• Familiarity with SRE principles, especially around observ, incident response, and reducing operational toil.
• Proficiency in scripting and programming languages such as C# and Python.
• Experience working with APIs, telemetry systems, and data pipelines for metrics and logs.
• Ability to design and maintain custom dashboards, alerting logic, and monitoring workflows.
• Knowledge of containerised environments (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud‑native architectures.
• Proven drive for continuous improvement and system reliability, excellent communication skills for effective cross‑team collaboration and mentorship, and the strategic vision necessary to develop future‑proof solutions.

Benefits

• Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place
• The magic of Sky Glass at an exclusive rate
• A generous pension package
• Private healthcare
• Discounted mobile and broadband
• A wide range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences

About the Team & Our Culture

Working in Tech, Product or Data at Sky is about building the next and the new. From broadband to broadcast, streaming to mobile, SkyQ to Sky Glass, we never stand still. We optimise and innovate. Our Content Technology and Innovation team delivers high‑quality content to homes, customer devices, businesses and commercial partners across our European markets. With over 2,500 colleagues from around the world, we combine our strategic insights, engineering know‑how and operational excellence to use the most innovative technologies to create and distribute our award‑winning content.

Inclusion & How You’ll Work – Recognised by The Times and Stonewall, we take pride in our approach to diversity and inclusion. Investing in society, fighting racial injustice and setting ambitious targets for representation at Sky. We've embraced hybrid working and split our time between unique office spaces and the convenience of working from home. Your Office Space – Osterley. Our Osterley Campus is a 10‑minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations. There are also plenty of bike shelters and showers. On campus, you’ll find 13 subsidised restaurants, cafés, and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed, and even get pampered at our beauty salon. We’re proud to invite inventive, forward‑thinking minds to work in Tech, Product and Data at Sky. It’s a place where you can explore what if, how far, and what next. But better doesn’t stop at what we do – it’s how we do it, too. We embrace each other’s differences. We support our community and contribute to a sustainable future for our business and the planet. If you believe in better, we’ll back you all the way.

Additional Information

Just so you know: if your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.