Observability Engineer

Thales Group; Belfast; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an Observability Engineer to join their dynamic SRE team. This role involves designing and enhancing observability solutions, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and implementing automation strategies to improve system visibility. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with monitoring and logging tools, a strong technical foundation, and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment. Join a forward-thinking company that values flexibility and offers a supportive work culture, where your contributions will help shape the future of digital security.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Remote working options

Career development opportunities

Inclusive recruitment process

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience focused on observability.
• Hands-on experience with monitoring, logging, and tracing tools.
• Strong technical background and willingness to get hands-on.

Responsibilities

• Review and enhance the current observability platform.
• Develop and optimize observability solutions.
• Automate monitoring and alerting processes.

Skills

Observability

Monitoring Tools

Logging Tools

Tracing Tools

Linux

Scripting (Bash, Python, Golang)

Cloud Systems Administration

DevOps Principles

Collaboration

Communication Skills

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science

Equivalent Technical Experience

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

New Relic

OpenTelemetry

ELK Stack

VictoriaMetrics

Job description

Location: BELFAST ARNOTT HOUSE, United KingdomThales people architect identity management and data protection solutions at the heart of digital security. Business and governments rely on us to bring trust to the billons of digital interactions they have with people. Our technologies and services help banks exchange funds, people cross borders, energy become smarter and much more. More than 30,000 organizations already rely on us to verify the identities of people and things, grant access to digital services, analyze vast quantities of information and encrypt data to make the connected world more secure.Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Title: Observability Engineer

Base location: Belfast / Remote UK

About the company:

Imperva, a Thales company, is an analyst-recognized cybersecurity leader—championing the fight to secure data and applications wherever they reside. Once deployed, our solutions proactively identify, evaluate, and eliminate current and emerging threats, so you never have to choose between innovating for your customers and protecting what matters most. Imperva—Protect the pulse of your business. Learn more: www.imperva.com, our blog, on Twitter.

About the role:

Imperva’s Infrastructure and Cloud team is staffed with senior leadership from Netflix, Cloudflare, Amazon, Fastly and other major corporations. Our mission is to rebuild Imperva’s pops and core infrastructure with new modern technologies, embracing Infrastructure as code at all levels with automation as a core requirement for all projects.

We are looking for an Observability Engineer to work within our SRE teams to design, build and iterate on our O11Y platform. This engineer will have to work both hands on and strategically with our architects, global service delivery and product teams to plan an observability road map and then execute on those plans.

Responsibilities:

• Assess & Enhance Observability: Review the current observability platform, identify areas for improvement, and guide the team in enhancing monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting capabilities.

• Design & Implement Solutions: Develop and optimize observability solutions that provide deep insights into system and service health.

• Dashboard Development: Assist teams in creating clear, informative, and actionable dashboards to improve system visibility.

• Automation & Alerting: Automate monitoring and alerting processes, including enrichment strategies and ML-driven anomaly detection where applicable.

• Cross-Team Collaboration: Work closely with ICO and product development teams to ensure seamless visibility into system and service performance.

• Strategic Observability: Partner with key stakeholders to develop a unified observability strategy aligned with business and operational goals.

Qualifications:

• At least 5 years of professional experience, some of which should have focus on Observability.

• Excellent knowledge and hands-on experience with monitoring, logging, and tracing tools such as Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, OpenTelemetry, ELK Stack, or similar.

• Experience with high volume data storage (Structured and unstructured).

• A strong technical background, with current capabilities and willingness to get hands on when needed.

• Excellent knowledge of Linux and scripting languages (Bash, Python, Golang).

• Excellent knowledge of cloud and on-premise systems administration principles.

• Significant Understanding of DevOps principles.

• A strong team player who is accountable towards business urgency.

• Ability to stay organized in a multi-tasking environment.

• Self-starter.

• Outstanding collaboration and communication, and documentation skills with a proven ability to work cross-functionally.

• • BS/MS in computer science, engineering, or a related technical discipline or equivalent experience.

Applicants must have a valid work permit in the UK.

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In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.

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