Senior Observability Engineer & SRE Lead

TRIA Recruitment Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

TRIA Recruitment Limited in London is seeking a Senior Observability Engineer / SRE Lead to assess and shape observability roadmaps across an enterprise-scale hybrid estate. The role is based in London with an onsite pattern (3 days/week) and a Sheffield alternative, for a 6 months+ contract.

You will document telemetry sources, define dashboards and health indicators, and drive OpenTelemetry adoption, Grafana Cloud, and modern telemetry practices across cloud and on-prem platforms.

Qualifications

• Experience leading enterprise-scale observability initiatives.
• Strong hands-on expertise with Grafana, Grafana Cloud, and OpenTelemetry.
• Deep understanding of metrics, logs, traces, SLIs and SLOs.
• Experience across cloud, on-premises and hybrid platforms.

Responsibilities

• Discover and document existing telemetry sources, monitoring tools, dashboards and ownership
• Work with technical teams and suppliers to gain access to telemetry
• Deliver meaningful dashboards and service health views
• Identify gaps in telemetry, monitoring and alerting coverage and implement pragmatic improvements
• Define health indicators for critical business journeys
• Introduce modern observability practices where practical, including SLIs, SLOs and a roadmap towards burn-rate alerting
• Develop a roadmap for OpenTelemetry adoption
• Assess options for a centralised telemetry platform, including Grafana Cloud
• Evaluate tooling rationalisation opportunities, operating costs and telemetry economics
• Define an observability target architecture, standards and implementation roadmap

Skills

Leadership

Grafana experience

OpenTelemetry

Observability concepts

Azure Monitor expertise

Tools

Grafana

Grafana Cloud

OpenTelemetry

Azure Monitor

Log Analytics

Application Insights

Job description

TRIA Recruitment Limited in London is seeking a Senior Observability Engineer / SRE Lead to assess and shape observability roadmaps across an enterprise-scale hybrid estate. The role is based in London with an onsite pattern (3 days/week) and a Sheffield alternative, for a 6 months+ contract.

You will document telemetry sources, define dashboards and health indicators, and drive OpenTelemetry adoption, Grafana Cloud, and modern telemetry practices across cloud and on-prem platforms.