Platform Engineer

Arcus Search; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Arcus Search in London is seeking a Platform/Observability Engineer to design and scale telemetry platforms, focusing on Kubernetes observability and OpenTelemetry integration. You will shape how telemetry is collected and processed across a high-uptime engineering environment, building scalable pipelines with Go or Python tooling.

Ideal candidates bring strong experience in OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes and AWS, plus familiarity with Datadog, New Relic or Dynatrace and infrastructure-as-code tools

Qualifications

• Experience building telemetry platforms at scale.
• Strong background in Platform Engineering, SRE or large-scale distributed systems.
• Proficiency with OpenTelemetry collectors, SDKs and exporters.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve large-scale telemetry platforms in a highly technical environment.
• Improve Kubernetes observability and telemetry collection pipelines.
• Shape how telemetry data is collected, processed and consumed across the platform.

Skills

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

AWS

Go

Python

Datadog

New Relic

Dynatrace

Terraform

Helm

ArgoCD

SRE

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

Helm

ArgoCD

Datadog

New Relic

Dynatrace

Job description

Platform/Observability Engineer opportunity - Quantitative Technology - London

• Looking for an experienced Observability Engineer with a strong background in Platform Engineering, SRE or large-scale distributed systems
• You'll be building and evolving large-scale telemetry platforms, improving Kubernetes observability and shaping how telemetry is collected and processed across a highly technical engineering environment
• The focus is on developing scalable telemetry pipelines, working with OpenTelemetry collectors, SDKs and exporters, and improving platform reliability
• You'll bring strong experience across OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes and AWS, alongside Go or Python
• Experience with Datadog, New Relic or Dynatrace, as well as Terraform, Helm or ArgoCD, will be highly relevant
• A background in SRE, platform infrastructure or building observability tooling at scale would be particularly attractive

This is a genuinely engineering-led observability opportunity within a leading quantitative technology firm, with the chance to build the platform itself rather than simply consume existing monitoring tools.