Senior Platform & Observability Architect — Hybrid London

Koda Tech; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Koda Tech in London is seeking a Senior Platform & Observability Engineer to shape and mature our observability strategy for large-scale, mission‑critical systems.

You will define standards across engineering, infrastructure and support, improve incident response, and design a target-state architecture with telemetry, logging and tracing. The role is hybrid, combining hands-on delivery with technical leadership.

Qualifications

• Strong experience solving real operational problems rather than focusing on tools.
• Experience defining monitoring, logging or reliability standards.
• Experience working across engineering, infrastructure, and support teams.
• Deep understanding of metrics, logs, alerting and service health concepts.
• Experience scaling structured logging practices.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience.
• Experience in hybrid cloud and on-prem environments.

Responsibilities

• Assess the current observability landscape across applications, infrastructure and services.
• Identify gaps in monitoring, alerting and operational workflows.
• Define observability standards and best practices across the business.
• Design a target-state observability architecture and roadmap.
• Work with engineers to improve telemetry, metrics, logging and tracing.
• Drive adoption of structured logging practices.
• Establish standards for alerting, incident detection and service health monitoring.
• Collaborate with platform, infrastructure and operations teams to automate observability via IaC.
• Act as a trusted advisor on reliability, monitoring and operational excellence.
• Support the wider Platform and DevOps function beyond the observability programme.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering

Observability Engineering

Cloud architecture

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Elastic

Splunk

Terraform

Job description

Koda Tech in London is seeking a Senior Platform & Observability Engineer to shape and mature our observability strategy for large-scale, mission‑critical systems.

You will define standards across engineering, infrastructure and support, improve incident response, and design a target-state architecture with telemetry, logging and tracing. The role is hybrid, combining hands-on delivery with technical leadership.