Software Engineer - Infrastructure / Observability

JR United Kingdom; City Of London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company seeks a Software Engineer focused on Infrastructure and Observability in London. The role is ideal for someone with strong software engineering skills who enjoys solving infrastructure challenges, offering up to £750 per day for an initial 6-month contract. Candidates will engage in building observability capabilities and developing code for infrastructure tools, requiring collaboration with platform engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering skills (Go or Python preferred).
• Experience in platform engineering teams is a plus.
• Comfort with both code and infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Write Prometheus exporters and integrations for infrastructure.
• Build out dashboards and monitoring pipelines in Grafana.
• Develop infrastructure-as-code tooling (Terraform, Ansible).

Skills

Software engineering skills

Familiarity with observability tools

Infrastructure development

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Terraform

Ansible

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Software Engineer - Infrastructure / Observability, london (city of london)

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Client:

SGI

Location:

london (city of london), United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Posted:

28.06.2025

Expiry Date:

12.08.2025

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Job Description:

Software Engineer – Infrastructure / Observability Focus (Inside IR35, up to £750/day)

Are you a software engineer who enjoys solving infrastructure problems - someone who sits comfortably between development and platform engineering?

Join a small, high-performing engineering team on a project at a top-tier quant fund, helping to build out observability capabilities. This is not an SRE or sysadmin role – it would suit a software engineer who cares about clean, testable code and good software practices, but prefers working in the infra/tooling space.

What you’ll be doing:

• Writing Prometheus exporters and integrations for infrastructure systems
• Building out dashboards and monitoring pipelines in Grafana and Prometheus
• Developing infrastructure-as-code tooling (Terraform, Ansible)
• Designing well-structured, testable software that improves system visibility

What they’re looking for:

• Strong software engineering skills (Go or Python preferred)
• Experience working in or alongside platform engineering teams
• Familiarity with modern observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, etc.)
• Comfort working across both code and infrastructure – but this is not a pure ops/SRE role
• If you've worked in finance that would be great but not mandatory

The role offers an initial 6-month initial contract, Inside IR35, up to £750/day but may be some flexibility. The role requires two days on site in the firm's state-of-the-art offices in London.