Platform Specialist - Observability

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

Job summary

Squarepoint is seeking a Platform Specialist on the Observability team to deliver and evolve monitoring, logging, tracing and alerting platforms used by engineers across the firm. You will own telemetry end to end from data collection through storage and dashboards, shaping architecture and user experience to reduce noise and improve value.

This hands-on role emphasizes automation, software development and operating distributed systems at scale.

Qualifications

• Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or similar discipline
• 4+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering roles
• Experience with software development (at least Python, Git - Golang or Rust)
• Experience with an observability stack such as Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Vector, Elastic stack, Grafana, Open Telemetry and AlertManager
• Experience with observability at scale for highly distributed applications in Kubernetes
• Experience with system administration and troubleshooting (Bash, Linux, Containerization)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Responsibilities

• Deliver and evolve monitoring, logging, tracing and alerting platforms
• Own the platform end to end from data collection to dashboards and alerting
• Shape architecture and user experience, reduce operational noise
• Hands-on engineering role with emphasis on automation and operating distributed systems at scale

Skills

DevOps/SRE experience

Distributed systems

Python development

Git

Communication skills

Kubernetes

Education

Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or similar discipline

Tools

Prometheus

VictoriaMetrics

Vector

Elastic stack

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

AlertManager

Kubernetes

Bash

Linux

Containerization

Job description

As a Platform Specialist on the Observability team, you will play a crucial technical role in delivering and evolving the monitoring, logging, tracing and alerting platforms that engineers across the firm rely on to understand and run their systems, using the DevOps methodology. You will work with internal and external stakeholders to build and maintain automated, self-service observability services that are reliable, secure and scalable across multiple regions.

You will have the opportunity to make a significant impact on the quality of telemetry the firm depends on, owning the platform end to end, from data collection and ingestion through storage, querying, dashboards and alerting. You will shape both the architecture and the user experience of the platform, and look for ways to reduce operational noise and make it easy for teams to get value from their data. This is a hands-on engineering role, with a strong emphasis on automation, software development and operating distributed systems at scale.

Required Qualifications:

• Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or similar discipline
• 4+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering roles
• Experience with software development (at least Python, Git - Golang or Rust)
• Experience with an observability stack such as Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Vector, Elastic stack, Grafana, Open Telemetry and AlertManager
• Experience with observability at scale for highly distributed applications in Kubernetes
• Experience with system administration and troubleshooting (Bash, Linux, Containerization)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Nice to have:

• Experience with creating and operating Kubernetes Operators
• Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management, such as Ansible and Terraform