Remote Observability Engineer: Build Monitoring Platform

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

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.