Senior Observability Engineer — SRE Contractor (6mo)

Sanderson Recruitment Plc

Alwalton

On-site

GBP 96,000 - 126,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

Sanderson Recruitment Plc is seeking a hands-on Senior Observability Engineer/SRE Consultant for a 6-month contract based in Peterborough, with the role requiring 2 days per week on-site. The position focuses on improving production visibility, accelerating incident triage, and strengthening monitoring and instrumentation across services.

Strong Splunk experience is essential, with Dynatrace and Grafana desirable.

Qualifications

Hands-on production observability and incident-diagnosis experience.
Strong Splunk expertise.
Experience in distributed-systems troubleshooting and performance analysis.
Experience working with developers to improve instrumentation, not just configuration.
Evidence of measurable improvements in detection and reliability.

Responsibilities

Review telemetry, dashboards, alerts and incidents to prioritise improvements.
Map critical customer journeys and dependencies across apps and infra.
Strengthen correlation across logs, metrics, traces and deploy events.
Define service-health measures and actionable alerts with clear ownership and response guidance.
Deliver improvements to initial critical services before wider rollout.
Validate results through controlled incident exercises and comparisons with historical incidents.
Document standards and runbooks, sharing knowledge with engineering and operations teams.