Observability Engineer - Trading - £120K+

Oliver Bernard; Greater London; On-site; GBP 102,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Oliver Bernard is seeking an experienced Observability Engineer for a leading algo trading firm in London. You will help build out the Observability Platform, automation and performance function across the IT estate.

You’ll work on telemetry, metrics and tracing, driving scaling to accommodate heavy traffic, and implement monitoring solutions using Prometheus, Grafana and the Elastic Stack. This is a greenfield opportunity with modern infrastructure investments.

Qualifications

• Excellent prior experience in a similar Observability role.
• Experience engineering and supporting solutions (OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk).
• Experience with CI/CD, Cloud and DevOps would be ideal.
• Experience of automation and scripting with Python and / or Bash.
• Experience with tools such as Jenkins, Ansible or Puppet.
• Good knowledge of Linux infrastructure.
• Experience working in complex, large-scale, distributed IT infrastructures.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate monitoring, observability and automation solutions across critical production systems.
• Develop telemetry, metrics and tracing strategies to handle high traffic and scale.
• Lead the implementation of monitoring platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) and automation efforts.
• Collaborate with software engineers and IT to improve performance and reliability.

Skills

Observability

DevOps basics

CI/CD

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Elastic Stack

OpenTelemetry

Splunk

Jenkins

Ansible

Puppet

Python

Bash

Job description

Observability Engineer - Trading - £120K+

Our client is one of the world’s leading algo trading firms and in central London are looking to hire an experienced Monitoring / Observability engineer to grow their core Infrastructure Engineering team and build out their Observability Platform, Automation and Performance function.

You’ll be a key part of the engineering of monitoring, observability and automation solutions, covering key production systems and applications across their entire IT estate.

You'll have the chance to work across telemetry, metrics and tracing and drive scaling to accommodate LLM and Claude endpoint traffic - Huge volumes of data and traffic every second.

You’ll help drive the vision, design and implementation of monitoring and observability systems including Prometheus, Grafana and the Elastic Stack (ELK) etc.

This is a true greenfield opportunity. You’ll be joining right at the start of new investment and a drive to revolutionise their infrastructure.

Requirements:

• Excellent previous experience in a similar Observability role.
• Experience of engineering and supporting solutions (OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk etc)
• Experience of CI/CD, Cloud and DevOps would be ideal
• Experience of automation and scripting with Python and / or Bash
• Experience with tools such as Jenkins, Ansible or Puppet
• Good knowledge of Linux infrastructure
• Experience working in complex, large-scale, distributed IT infrastructures