Senior Cloud & Observability Engineer

BBC Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 67,000 - 82,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

25 days annual leave

Pension scheme

Dental discount

Gym discount

Learning opportunities

Job summary

The BBC Group is seeking a Senior Engineer to architect and build cloud-based observability and alerting platforms, ensuring 24/7 uptime for audience products. You will migrate legacy systems to open-source stacks (Mimir, Prometheus, Grafana) and work across AWS to deliver scalable, high-availability services.

You will mentor junior engineers, drive engineering practices, and contribute to long-term observability roadmaps while collaborating with product and operations teams in a hybrid London

Qualifications

• Experience with Linux operating systems and cloud-based infrastructure.
• Knowledge of monitoring/alerting tools and observability stacks.
• Ability to design scalable, highly available systems in AWS.
• Familiarity with Terraform, Ansible or similar IaC tools.

Responsibilities

• Architect and scale robust, highly available infrastructure using cloud services and automation.
• Lead design and development of software meeting complex product needs and integrate monitoring tools.
• Diagnose operational issues and participate in on-call rotation.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure platforms scale and are supportable.
• Drive engineering practices, tests, and SDLC improvements.

Skills

Cloud architecture

System observability

On-call rotation

Automation mindset

DevOps practices

Python scripting

Linux systems

CI/CD practices

Networking basics

Agile collaboration

Tools

Git / GitHub

Atlassian Tools

Telegraf

InfluxDB

Consul

LibreNMS

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Relational DB

Time series DB

Web HTTP

Backend

Alerta

Grafana

Prometheus

Mimir

Alloy

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

AWS CDK

Python

Bash

AWS

EC2

S3

Lambda

SQS

SNS

RDS

CloudWatch

Route 53

Job description

The BBC Group is seeking a Senior Engineer to architect and build cloud-based observability and alerting platforms, ensuring 24/7 uptime for audience products. You will migrate legacy systems to open-source stacks (Mimir, Prometheus, Grafana) and work across AWS to deliver scalable, high-availability services.

You will mentor junior engineers, drive engineering practices, and contribute to long-term observability roadmaps while collaborating with product and operations teams in a hybrid London