Observability Engineer

TN United Kingdom; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a high-growth company as an Observability Engineer, where you'll work on cutting-edge tools to collect and analyze telemetry data. This role emphasizes simplicity and performance, allowing you to collaborate with talented engineers to enhance service visibility across the organization. You'll be part of a culture that champions diversity and innovation, with opportunities for personal development and a commitment to work-life balance. If you're passionate about observability and eager to solve complex problems, this position offers a rewarding career path with a supportive team.

Benefits

Remote and flexible working

Market-leading salaries

Generous bonuses

Equity options

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Additional paid leave for charity

Dedicated time for personal development

Qualifications

• Experience with observability tools like Grafana and InfluxDB.
• Ability to develop custom code in a testable manner.

Responsibilities

• Administer observability infrastructure and deploy OTEL agents.
• Collaborate with engineers to enhance observability practices.

Skills

Python

Observability Techniques

Agile Methodologies

Test Driven Development (TDD)

Behavioral Driven Development (BDD)

Tools

Telegraf

InfluxDB

Grafana

Terraform

Jenkins

Ansible

Kubernetes

Job description

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Anaplan. As the engine behind back-office system connectivity, you might not recognize our name, but our customers rank among the who’s who in the Fortune 50. Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, and Bayer are just a few of the 2,000+ companies that rely on our best-in-class platform and its native AI capabilities to see, plan, and lead their businesses. By dynamically connecting financial, strategic, and operational plans in real-time, companies trust Anaplan to give them the power to anticipate change, address complexity, deliver operational insights, increase profits, and stay ahead of their competition.

What unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies is our commitment to our customers’ success and our collective motivation to achieve ambitious goals. We champion diversity of thought and ideas, and we behave like leaders irrespective of title. When you work for us, you’ll be part of a winning culture that’s dedicated to creating opportunities for our customers, partners, and employees. We hope you’ll join us. Let’s create something incredible together!

Observability Engineer

At Anaplan we are looking for a self-motivated Observability Engineer to join our dedicated Observability Infrastructure team. Anaplan is a high-growth company that is leading the way in enterprise planning. We look for exceptional Engineers of all levels - inquisitive, hard-working people who believe in simplicity, agility and performance and can choose and use the best tools for the job. In the role of Observability Engineer, you will be working on the tools used to collect and analyse Observability telemetry (Logs, Metrics and Traces). You will enable engineers across the business to see how their services are performing, and interacting, in a scalable, performant, and cost-effective manner.

What you’ll be doing:

In this role, working a minimum of 2 days a week in our London Office, you will be:

• Administering observability infrastructure.
• Deploying and configuring OTEL agents to collect telemetry, and to visualise this data in Grafana.
• Pairing with your colleagues to build everything from rapid prototypes to highly testable and tested platform capabilities.
• Coaching and collaborating with other platform and product engineers to share best practice on observability techniques and deliver value.
• Develop custom code in a testable and sustainable way. The team is most fluent in Python, but we are always happy to use the right language to solve a problem.
• Working with Terraform to deploy Dashboards and Alerts to our Grafana instances in a managed and repeatable way.
• Working with our stakeholders to translate product goals into prioritised platform requirements.
• Working in a complex and evolving environment.
• Anaplan provides services using multiple cloud vendors and our own data centres.
• We collect data from Kubernetes, VMs and bare metal systems.
• We encourage and enable the adoption of observability tools to drive great decisions in the business.

Required Experience:

We are looking for people with experience with at least some of these tools or similar products and enthusiasm for learning.

• Telegraf, InfluxDB, Grafana (TIG).

Useful Experience:

• Experience with TDD (Test Driven Development) and BDD (Behavioural Driven Development).
• Experience working with Kubernetes.
• Experience working with DevOps tools like Terraform, Jenkins or Ansible.
• Working in an agile environment.

What we offer:

• A rewarding, progressive career with a company that values diversity, flexibility and understands the need for a good work/life balance.
• Remote and flexible working.
• Market-leading salaries combined with generous bonuses, equity, and a range of comprehensive benefits.
• A range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• 3 days of additional paid leave every year to support the charity or cause of your choice.
• Huge problems to solve – you will constantly be learning and pushing boundaries, working with some of the smartest people around!
• Dedicated time for personal development.