Observability Platform Engineer – Scale & Automation

Actus Search; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Actus Search is seeking a Platform Engineer – Observability for a global investment firm. You will shape the observability stack, build scalable monitoring, and own automation across distributed environments, partnering with engineering teams worldwide to improve reliability.

Key responsibilities include expanding metrics, logs, tracing and alerting, developing automated telemetry pipelines, and enhancing monitoring across Kubernetes and Linux.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years' experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or SRE or related infrastructure engineering
• Strong programming and scripting capabilities, particularly Python, with exposure to Go or Rust advantageous
• Hands-on experience with observability technologies such as Grafana, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Elasticsearch, Vector, OpenTelemetry or Alertmanager
• Experience supporting containerised applications and distributed systems running on Kubernetes
• Strong Linux engineering skills, including troubleshooting, system administration and Bash scripting
• Experience using Git and software engineering practices to develop infrastructure tooling
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical discipline
• Strong communication skills and collaboration across locations

Responsibilities

• Engineer and improve observability infrastructure covering metrics, logs, distributed tracing and alerting
• Develop automated solutions that enable engineering teams to monitor and troubleshoot their applications independently
• Support and optimise monitoring capabilities across large-scale Kubernetes and Linux environments
• Build and maintain reliable data pipelines for collecting, processing and analysing telemetry
• Work closely with infrastructure and software engineering teams to improve system visibility, performance and resilience
• Contribute to technical architecture, platform improvements and DevOps best practices

Skills

Python

Go or Rust

Bash scripting

Git

Linux

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus

VictoriaMetrics

Elasticsearch

Vector

OpenTelemetry

Alertmanager

Job description

Actus Search is seeking a Platform Engineer – Observability for a global investment firm. You will shape the observability stack, build scalable monitoring, and own automation across distributed environments, partnering with engineering teams worldwide to improve reliability.

Key responsibilities include expanding metrics, logs, tracing and alerting, developing automated telemetry pipelines, and enhancing monitoring across Kubernetes and Linux.