Senior Observability Engineer - FinTech - £90K

JR United Kingdom; London; On-site; GBP 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in the FinTech sector is seeking a Senior Observability Engineer to enhance their core Infrastructure Engineering team. This role offers a unique chance to build and implement cutting-edge monitoring and observability solutions, utilizing tools like OpenTelemetry, Grafana, and Prometheus. Collaborating closely with DevOps teams, you will engage in automation and performance functions, working with modern technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes. Join this exciting greenfield project and contribute to redefining infrastructure capabilities in a dynamic and innovative environment.

Qualifications

• Excellent experience in an Observability/Monitoring role.
• Experience with OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk.
• Good knowledge of Linux and infrastructure support.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement monitoring and observability systems.
• Work with DevOps teams on automation solutions.
• Join a greenfield opportunity to revolutionize infrastructure.

Skills

Monitoring

Observability

Automation

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Prometheus

Splunk

Linux

CI/CD

Python

Bash

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Ansible

Jenkins

Puppet

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Senior Observability Engineer - FinTech - £90K, London

Client: Oliver Bernard

Location: London, United Kingdom

Job Category: Other

EU work permit required: Yes

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Posted:

05.05.2025

Expiry Date:

19.06.2025

Job Description:

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