Observability Engineer

ASDA; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 70.000 - 95.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Discretionary company bonus

Company pension up to 7% matched

Company Car allowance of £5,700

15% colleague discount in store and온라인

Wellbeing services access and employee

Inclusion Networks and diverse support

Enhanced parental leave policies

Zusammenfassung

ASDA is seeking an experienced Observability Engineer to join the Cloud Platform Team in the UK. The role focuses on enterprise observability, New Relic, Azure monitoring, automation and engineering standards to provide actionable telemetry across the estate.

You will help teams gain insights into services, improve reliability and support critical business platforms. This is a hybrid role with 3 days in a Home Office, plus additional site requirements per area.

Qualifikationen

• Experience delivering enterprise observability across large Azure environments.
• Experience building and maintaining dashboards and alerts in production.
• Strong automation mindset for monitoring and incident response.

Aufgaben

• Build, support and continuously improve enterprise observability capabilities.
• Develop and maintain New Relic dashboards, alerts and service-level monitoring.
• Enhance Azure monitoring coverage across cloud platforms and applications.
• Deliver monitoring and observability solutions through Infrastructure as Code.
• Support incident investigation, troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
• Drive improvements in service reliability, availability and performance.
• Promote observability best practices across engineering teams.
• Contribute to automation and standardisation initiatives within the Cloud Platform Team.

Kenntnisse

Observability engineering

Automation

Incident investigation

Telemetry interpretation

Tools

New Relic

Azure Monitor

OpenTelemetry

Terraform

GitHub

Azure DevOps

Infrastructure as Code

Jobbeschreibung

Job Title

Observability Engineer

Location

Asda House

Employment Type

Full time

Contract Type

Permanent

Hours Per Week

37.5

Salary

Competitive salary plus benefits

Category

Infrastructure

Closing Date

3 November 2026

Asda is looking for an experienced Observability Engineer to join the Cloud Platform Team, helping to improve the reliability, performance and operational visibility of services across one of the UK's largest Azure estates.

This is a hands‑on engineering role focused on enterprise observability, New Relic, Azure monitoring, automation and engineering standards. You'll play a key role in helping teams gain actionable insights into their services, improving operational excellence and supporting the reliability of critical business platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Build, support and continuously improve enterprise observability capabilities.
• Develop and maintain New Relic dashboards, alerts and service-level monitoring.
• Enhance Azure monitoring coverage across cloud platforms and applications.
• Deliver monitoring and observability solutions through Infrastructure as Code.
• Support incident investigation, troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
• Drive improvements in service reliability, availability and performance.
• Promote observability best practices across engineering teams.
• Contribute to automation and standardisation initiatives within the Cloud Platform Team.

Essential Technical Skills

• New Relic in enterprise production environments
• Microsoft Azure and Azure Monitor
• OpenTelemetry
• Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• GitHub and Azure DevOps
• Metrics, logs, traces and synthetic monitoring
• Dashboard development, alerting and service health monitoring
• Incident investigation and root cause analysis
• Observability engineering, automation and platform support

Desirable Skills

• New Relic or Microsoft Azure certifications
• Azure networking and platform engineering experience
• Experience implementing observability standards and governance
• Retail or large‑scale enterprise experience

About You

You'll be an experienced observability engineer with strong expertise in New Relic, Azure and modern monitoring practices. You'll be passionate about using telemetry to improve service reliability and performance, with a pragmatic approach to automation, operational excellence and continuous improvement.

You'll be comfortable working with engineering teams across a large enterprise environment, helping translate complex metrics, logs and traces into clear operational insight and meaningful actions.

Everything you'll love

To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.

You will also get an excellent benefits package including:

• Discretionary company bonus
• Company pension up to 7% matched
• Company Car allowance of £5,700
• 15% colleague discount in store and online
• Free access to wellbeing services such as Stream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.
• Asda Allies Inclusion Networks - helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
• Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves