Senior Observability Engineer - FinTech - £90K

ZipRecruiter; London; On-site; GBP 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading FinTech company as a Senior Observability Engineer and play a pivotal role in revolutionizing their infrastructure. This is a unique greenfield opportunity where you will design and implement cutting-edge monitoring and observability systems. Collaborate with talented DevOps teams, utilizing tools like OpenTelemetry, Grafana, and Prometheus, while working with containers and Kubernetes. If you're passionate about automation and performance in a dynamic environment, this role offers the chance to make a significant impact from the ground up.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in an Observability/Monitoring role.
• Strong background in engineering and supporting observability solutions.

Responsibilities

• Drive the vision and implementation of monitoring systems.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams on automation and performance.

Skills

Monitoring

Observability

Automation

Communication Skills

Scripting with Python

Scripting with Bash

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Prometheus

Splunk

Jenkins

Ansible

Puppet

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Job description

Job Description

Senior Observability Engineer - FinTech - £90K

Our client is one of the world’s leading financial technology (FinTech) companies.

They’re 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 help drive the vision, design and implementation of monitoring and observability systems including OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus and Splunk etc.

Working side by side with DevOps teams you’ll also have the chance to work with containers and Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker and Ansible.

This is a true greenfield opportunity. You’ll be joining right at the start of new investment and a drive to revolutionise their infrastructure and re-define what they can do with monitoring, DevOps and automation tools.

Requirements:

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