Observability Engineer - Outside IR35 - £700 per day

Oliver Bernard; United States; Remote; GBP 129,150; Full time

Job summary

A leading FinTech company in the United Kingdom is looking for an experienced Observability Engineer to join their core Infrastructure team. This fully remote contract role, lasting 6 months outside IR35, involves designing and implementing monitoring and observability solutions. Candidates should have strong experience with tools like Datadog, OpenTelemetry, and be proficient in automation practices, including scripting with Python. This opportunity is part of a greenfield investment aimed at enhancing their infrastructure capabilities.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in a Monitoring/Observability role.
• Ability to engineer and support solutions like Datadog and Grafana.
• Familiarity with CI/CD and Azure cloud services.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement monitoring and observability systems.
• Work with DevOps teams to enhance cloud infrastructure.
• Drive automation initiatives across the IT estate.

Skills

Monitoring and observability engineering

Automation development

Cloud (Azure)

CI/CD processes

Scripting with Python

Container orchestration

Tools

Datadog

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Prometheus

Ansible

Docker

Jenkins

Job description

Observability Engineer - Outside IR35 - £700 per day

Our client is one of the country's leading financial technology (FinTech) companies.

They’re looking to hire an experienced Monitoring / Observability engineer to grow their core Infrastructure Engineering team and build out their Observability Platform, Automation and Performance function.

This is an initial 6 month contract, outside IR35 and offering fully remote working.

You’ll be a key part of the engineering of monitoring, observability and automation solutions, covering key production systems and applications across their entire IT estate.

You’ll help drive the vision, design and implementation of monitoring and observability systems including Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Grafana and Prometheus etc.

Working side by side with (Azure cloud) DevOps teams you’ll also have the chance to work with containers and Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker and Ansible etc

This is a true greenfield opportunity. You’ll be joining right at the start of new investment and a drive to revolutionise their infrastructure and re-define what they can do with monitoring, DevOps and automation tools.

Requirements:

• Excellent previous experience in a similar Observability / Monitoring role.
• Experience of engineering and supporting solutions (Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk etc)
• Experience of CI/CD, Cloud (Azure) and DevOps would be ideal
• Experience of automation and scripting with Python and / or Bash
• Experience with tools such as Jenkins, Ansible or Puppet