Senior SRE - Observability (OpenTelemetry/OpenSearch) | Hybrid

EPAM Systems; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

EPAM Systems in London is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Observability to join the Production Engineering - Observability team in a hybrid mode. The role focuses on building and expanding a modern observability platform built on OpenTelemetry and OpenSearch for critical systems.

This hands-on position requires defining standards, instrumenting applications, developing dashboards and automation, and delivering enterprise-scale solutions to improve monitoring, resilience and incident

Qualifications

• Extensive experience as Senior SRE or Observability Engineer in enterprise-scale environments.
• Expertise with OpenTelemetry instrumentation and telemetry pipelines.
• Deep knowledge of OpenSearch for architecture, indexing, analytics.
• Experience building dashboards and alerts in Grafana.
• Familiarity with Geneos and other enterprise monitoring tools.
• Proficient in SRE practices and automation approaches.

Responsibilities

• Gather requirements and analyze existing monitoring/observability platforms.
• Define observability standards, telemetry strategies and alerting frameworks.
• Implement OpenTelemetry instrumentation and OpenSearch solutions across apps and infra.
• Design dashboards, analytics and reporting to improve transparency and efficiency.
• Develop automation tools to enhance observability and reduce manual overhead.
• Integrate observability with enterprise monitoring platforms such as Geneos.
• Provide documentation and handover for long-term sustainability.
• Apply SRE principles to drive stability, scalability and incident reduction.

Skills

SRE

Observability

Automation

Telemetry pipelines

Incident reduction

Hybrid/cloud

Tools

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

OpenSearch

Geneos

Job description

EPAM Systems in London is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Observability to join the Production Engineering - Observability team in a hybrid mode. The role focuses on building and expanding a modern observability platform built on OpenTelemetry and OpenSearch for critical systems.

This hands-on position requires defining standards, instrumenting applications, developing dashboards and automation, and delivering enterprise-scale solutions to improve monitoring, resilience and incident