Senior Observability Engineer - Hedge Fund - £130K+

Oliver Bernard; Greater London; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

Oliver Bernard is seeking a Senior Observability Engineer in London to build and grow a world-class observability platform. You will own monitoring across telemetry, metrics and tracing, driving scale and automation for high-traffic production systems.

You will shape the vision and implementation of monitoring, observability and automation using Prometheus, Grafana and the ELK stack, contributing to a greenfield rollout at a leading hedge fund.

Qualifications

• Experience in a senior observability role with proven impact.
• Experience engineering and supporting OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk.
• CI/CD, Cloud and DevOps experience is highly desirable.
• Automation or scripting skills with Python and/or Bash.
• Experience with Jenkins, Ansible or Puppet on large, distributed infra.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and scale monitoring and observability platforms.
• Drive telemetry strategy: metrics, tracing, logs across large IT estate.
• Lead automation efforts to improve reliability and performance.
• Collaborate with DevOps and engineering teams to automate pipelines and deployments.
• Contribute to greenfield observability initiatives and ELK stack enhancements.

Skills

Observability

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Prometheus

CI/CD & Cloud

Python/Bash

DevOps Tools

Linux

Distributed Infra

Tools

Jenkins

Ansible

Puppet

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Prometheus

Splunk

Job description

Senior Observability Engineer - Hedge Fund - £130K+

Our client is one of the world’s leading hedge funds and in London are 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 have the chance to work across telemetry, metrics and tracing and drive scaling to accommodate LLM and Claude endpoint traffic - Huge volumes of data and traffic every second.

You’ll help drive the vision, design and implementation of monitoring and observability systems including Prometheus, Grafana and the Elastic Stack (ELK) etc.

This is a true greenfield opportunity. You’ll be joining right at the start of new investment and a drive to revolutionise their infrastructure.

Requirements

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