Location: London, onsite 3 days per week (Sheffield as an alternative)
Rate: £tbd/day inside IR35
Duration: 6 months+
Are you a Senior Observability Engineer / SRE Lead, with demonstrable experience of assessing and defining observability and monitoring roadmaps within enterprise scale environments?
The Lead Observability Engineer / SRE Lead will be required to assess a complex hybrid estate, understand how services, platforms, infrastructure and networks should be monitored, and work across multiple internal teams, partners and suppliers to build a consolidated view of existing telemetry, monitoring and alerting capabilities.
As well as short term tactical objectives, the role will also be focussed on longer term strategic ones.
Responsibilities
- Discover and document existing telemetry sources, monitoring tools, dashboards and ownership
- Work with technical teams and suppliers to gain access to telemetry
- Deliver meaningful dashboards and service health views
- Identify gaps in telemetry, monitoring and alerting coverage and implement pragmatic improvements
- Define health indicators for critical business journeys
- Introduce modern observability practices where practical, including SLIs, SLOs and a roadmap towards burn-rate alerting
- Develop a roadmap for OpenTelemetry adoption
- Assess options for a centralised telemetry platform, including Grafana Cloud
- Evaluate tooling rationalisation opportunities, operating costs and telemetry economics
- Define an observability target architecture, standards and implementation roadmap
Requirements
- Proven experience leading enterprise-scale observability initiatives
- Strong hands‑on expertise with Grafana, Grafana Cloud, OpenTelemetry and modern telemetry pipelines
- Deep understanding of metrics, logs, traces, distributed tracing, alerting, SLIs, SLOs and error‑budget concepts
- Experience designing observability solutions across cloud PaaS, IaaS, on‑premises, legacy and third‑party hosted platforms
- Strong knowledge of Azure observability tooling, including Azure Monitor, Log Analytics and Application Insights
Lead Observability Engineer / SRE Lead / Lead Site Reliability Engineer
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