Telemetry and Observability Engineer

Job Description

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Telemetry & Observability Engineer | Contract | £475-£515 p/d | Inside IR35 | London | 3 days on site | 6 month contract

We are seeking a highly skilled Telemetry & Observability Engineer to join a large-scale enterprise engineering environment focused on improving system reliability, visibility, and operational intelligence across complex distributed platforms. This role is ideal for a hands-on engineer who can go beyond using observability tools and instead design, build, and automate observability and telemetry solutions from the ground up.

You will be responsible for building and evolving telemetry pipelines and observability infrastructure across a distributed, cloud-native environment. Working closely with network, platform, and software engineering teams, you will help embed observability into engineering workflows and CI/CD processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable pipelines for metrics, logs, traces, and event data across distributed systems
• Build and enhance observability tooling, including dashboards, monitoring systems, alerting frameworks, and reliability standards
• Develop and maintain telemetry solutions using OpenTelemetry and related open-source technologies
• Automate observability infrastructure using Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices
• Integrate monitoring and observability into CI/CD pipelines and SDLC processes
• Define and support SLIs, SLOs, and alerting strategies in collaboration with engineering teams
• Promote best practices in instrumentation, monitoring, and incident response
• Work with network and platform teams to improve visibility across infrastructure and services

Required Skills & Experience

• Proven experience in observability, SRE, or platform engineering roles within complex distributed environments
• Strong hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry, including building and managing telemetry pipelines
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as: Grafana, Prometheus, Elastic / Splunk, Loki / Jaeger or similar
• Strong experience with Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tools
• Solid understanding of cloud-native environments (Kubernetes, microservices, distributed systems)
• Experience working within or alongside network engineering or infrastructure operations teams
• Programming experience in at least one language such as Python, Go, or Java
• Strong understanding of SLOs, SLIs, and modern reliability engineering practices
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a focus on automation and system reliability

Desirable Experience

• Experience in regulated or large enterprise environments
• Exposure to AI/ML-driven observability or proactive monitoring initiatives
• Contribution to or involvement with open-source observability projects

If this sounds like a fit, APPLY NOW!

Telemetry & Observability Engineer | Contract | £475-£515 p/d | Inside IR35 | London | 3 days on site | 6 month contract

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