Observability Architect for High-Impact Migration

慨正橡扯; Bristol; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days bookable holiday + flexible BH

Pension: 6% + 2% employee

Aviva healthcare cover

Flexibenefit £1000

Life Assurance

Income Protection

Eye test + glasses

Parental Benefits

Job summary

AND Digital is seeking an Observability Architect to lead the assessment, design, and optimisation of observability for a large-scale co-location migration. The role focuses on logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, and dashboards to ensure visibility across the new infrastructure and monolithic platform, with minimal operational risk during migration waves.

The ideal candidate brings extensive experience in enterprise observability, strong expertise in metrics and tracing, and a collaborative,

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing enterprise observability solutions within large-scale infrastructure or data centre migration programmes.
• Strong knowledge of metrics, logging, distributed tracing, and application performance monitoring (APM).
• Experience monitoring latency-sensitive, business-critical enterprise applications.
• Knowledge of financial services operational resilience, audit, and regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead observability assessment and strategy for the migration programme.
• Define monitoring and analytics to support migration readiness and long-term operations.
• Create real-time dashboards and end-to-end transaction tracing for the monolithic estate.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure, Platform, Security, and Migration teams; produce runbooks and architecture docs.

Skills

Observability architecture

Logging & tracing

APM

Migration planning

Stakeholder management

Job description

AND Digital is seeking an Observability Architect to lead the assessment, design, and optimisation of observability for a large-scale co-location migration. The role focuses on logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, and dashboards to ensure visibility across the new infrastructure and monolithic platform, with minimal operational risk during migration waves.

The ideal candidate brings extensive experience in enterprise observability, strong expertise in metrics and tracing, and a collaborative,