Senior Observability Engineer | SRE & Splunk Focus

Sanderson Recruitment Plc; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 111,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Sanderson Recruitment Plc seeks a hands-on Senior Observability Engineer/SRE Consultant to improve production monitoring, incident detection and root-cause analysis across critical services. The role is a 6-month initial term with a daily rate of £600-£625 and Inside IR35, with 2 days per week onsite in Cambridgeshire.

Ideal candidates will have strong Splunk experience and familiarity with Dynatrace or Grafana, plus proven ability to drive observability improvements, proactive monitoring and

Qualifications

• Hands-on observability/monitoring experience across complex services.
• Strong expertise with Splunk; knowledge of Dynatrace or Grafana.
• Ability to drive incident management and root-cause analysis.

Responsibilities

• Review existing monitoring, telemetry and alerting capabilities.
• Improve visibility across critical customer journeys and dependencies.
• Implement meaningful service-health metrics and actionable alerts.
• Reduce incident detection and resolution times.
• Develop observability standards, runbooks and best practices.

Skills

Production monitoring

Observability

Incident management

Distributed systems

Log correlation

Metrics correlation

Trace correlation

Instrumentation improvements

Tools

Splunk

Dynatrace

Grafana

Job description

Sanderson Recruitment Plc seeks a hands-on Senior Observability Engineer/SRE Consultant to improve production monitoring, incident detection and root-cause analysis across critical services. The role is a 6-month initial term with a daily rate of £600-£625 and Inside IR35, with 2 days per week onsite in Cambridgeshire.

Ideal candidates will have strong Splunk experience and familiarity with Dynatrace or Grafana, plus proven ability to drive observability improvements, proactive monitoring and