Senior Observability Platform Engineer

Carbon3ai Limited.; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Era4 is recruiting an Observability Platform Engineer to design, implement and operate its enterprise observability platform across AI infrastructure in the United Kingdom. You will build highly available telemetry, monitoring, alerting, and dashboards using Grafana, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, and IaC practices.

You will work across compute, GPU, storage, and networking to establish scalable observability standards, automate operations, and support incident detection and root-cause analysis as

Qualifications

• Significant experience implementing and operating enterprise observability platforms.
• In-depth understanding of metrics, logs, traces, OpenTelemetry, and modern observability principles.
• Designing Kubernetes-native solutions and operating distributed platforms at scale.
• Linux systems administration and cloud-native infrastructure.
• Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps approaches (preferably including Ansible).
• Automation and operational tooling using Python and/or Go.
• Technical architecture, operational documentation, and deployment designs.
• Object storage technologies and distributed data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement highly available observability services across multiple sites.
• Define platform standards for telemetry collection, metadata enrichment, retention policies, and data governance.
• Implement multi-tenant observability controls and tenant isolation strategies.
• Configure telemetry ingestion pipelines for metrics, logs, and distributed tracing workloads.
• Configure and maintain object-storage-backed telemetry platforms for long-term retention and scalability.
• Deploy and manage Grafana Alloy collectors across clusters and infrastructure.
• Develop and maintain observability integrations using OpenTelemetry standards.
• Establish onboarding processes for new platforms and services.
• Collaborate with application teams to define observability requirements and future tracing adoption.
• Design and implement alerting frameworks with AlertManager and operational dashboards.

Skills

Observability platforms

Kubernetes at scale

OpenTelemetry

Python/Go automation

IaC & GitOps

Incident management

Tools

Grafana Alloy

Kubernetes

AlertManager

Ansible

Job description

Era4 is recruiting an Observability Platform Engineer to design, implement and operate its enterprise observability platform across AI infrastructure in the United Kingdom. You will build highly available telemetry, monitoring, alerting, and dashboards using Grafana, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, and IaC practices.

You will work across compute, GPU, storage, and networking to establish scalable observability standards, automate operations, and support incident detection and root-cause analysis as