Service Engineering Specialist

IT WORLD LIMITED; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

IT WORLD LIMITED in London is seeking an experienced SRE/Observability Engineer to champion the adoption of our observability platform and support teams with production monitoring and incident management. You will help ensure scalable, available systems and contribute to change and release processes.

The role emphasizes hands-on work with Grafana and related tools, collaboration in a global agile environment, and mentoring other SREs to improve reliability and performance across the organization.

Qualifications

• 2+ years with Grafana/admin in a medium/large enterprise environment.
• 2+ years exposure to Linux OS and day-to-day troubleshooting.
• Experience with Python or Ansible.
• Production support experience: incident, change, release management, on-call, user engagement.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Good analytical and troubleshooting abilities with mature judgement.
• Basic understanding of cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as GitLab, Jenkins, Ansible, Nexus.
• Team player with collaborative mindset.

Responsibilities

• Champion observability adoption across the group and support teams.
• Understand tools/frameworks providing observability and assist teams with usage queries.
• Act as custodian of production environments and maintain robust, scalable systems.
• Prevent incidents and perform RCA to minimize downtime and recurrence.
• Manage changes and releases to production in a reliable manner.
• Respond quickly to alerts and implement preventive measures.
• Prioritize requests and triage alerts to maintain stability and user satisfaction.
• Engage with users to provide guidance and a positive experience.
• Collaborate in a global agile team and participate in planning and reviews.
• Build and maintain scalable monitoring solutions for global infrastructure.
• Contribute to architectural decisions influencing observability platform direction.
• Mentor other SREs and share knowledge across the team.
• Leverage AI tools with guardrails to improve operational efficiency.

Skills

Grafana

Linux

Python

Ansible

Production support

Communication

Analytical thinking

CI/CD tools

Team player

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

OpenTelemetry

Jenkins

GitLab

Confluence

JIRA

Job description

• Cross functional engagement to champion and provide necessary support for the adoption of TOM platform across the group of companies.
• Gain understanding of the various tools and frameworks that together provide observability and notification service to the organization and assist development and production support teams with queries / issues related to their usage of our platform.
• Act as custodian of production environment and engage within the team and outside, if need be, towards building and maintaining robust, scalable, highly available production systems in accordance with our service level objectives
• Preventing production incidents but when they do occur, performing effective incident and problem management and RCA to minimize downtime as well as possibility of recurrence.
• Pushing out changes and releases to production environment reliably via effective change and release management
• Quick and effective response to alerts before they become incidents, with an approach to prevent them from occurring ever again
• Effectively triaging alerts, requests, emails such that things that needs attention get addressed first and in a timely manner in the order of their priority, the drivers for which should be production stability and user satisfaction.
• Continuous and effective engagement with users, with the required empathy, providing the right guidance so as to provide a good customer experience
• Collaborate in a global agile team environment using established support practices, participating in sprint planning, reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives
• Build and maintain scalable, reliable monitoring solutions that support global infrastructure
• Engage with engineers, architect towards contributing to architectural decisions that influence the future direction of observability platform
• Champion observability best practices across the organization, helping teams leverage data-driven insights to improve system reliability and performance
• Partner with engineers as needed to optimize operational efficiency and enhance system resilience
• Effectively leveraging AI tools such as Claude, CoPilot etc. with adequate guardrails to bring efficiencies into operational processes in a consistent, repeatable and risk averse manner.
• Mentor and guide other SREs, sharing your knowledge and expertise across other team members for the benefit of the team.

Requirements (indicate mandatory and/or preferred):

Mandatory:

• Minimum 2 years’ experience with Grafana or any other modern observability tools in an administrative capacity for a medium/large scale enterprise.
• At least 2 years’ exposure to Linux OS with a decent hold on general purpose troubleshooting and day to day commands
• Exposure to one or more of following – Python / Ansible
• Production support experience – Request handling, incident management, problem management, change management, release management, on-call handling, user engagement, responding to alerts etc.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong analytical and trouble-shooting skills, with the ability to exercise mature judgement
• Basic understanding of cloud platforms
• Basic understanding of CI/CD tools such as GitLab, Jenkins, Ansible, Nexus etc.
• Good Team player

Preferred:

• Understanding of Open Telemetry standards
• Understanding of containerization technologies such as Kubernetes, EKS, Docker etc.
• Supporting a medium / large scale production environment
• Exposure to AI tools and their usage for increasing work efficiency
• Knowledge of ITIL
• Decent understanding of DB Platforms – Sybase / MySQL / MSSQL – general RDBMS concepts, SQL
• Collaboration Tools – Confluence / JIRA
• Basic knowledge of / familiarity with other infrastructure technologies such as Middleware (ActiveMQ / Solace / EMS / Tibco etc.), Web servers, Load balancers, Directory Services etc.
• Experience working with a globally dispersed team