Senior Site Reliability Engineer – OpenTelemetry

Overview

In this role you will drive the design and expansion of a modern observability platform to boost monitoring, resilience, and operational stability for critical trading systems. You will work within the Production Engineering – Observability team to define standards, deliver enterprise-scale observability solutions, and promote best practices for operational excellence. The role involves hands-on instrumentation, data analytics, and dashboards to enable faster incident detection and reduced outages. This is a chance to shape observability at scale in a hybrid, finance-focused environment with a strong emphasis on automation and cross-team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Gather requirements and analyze current monitoring and observability setups
• Define observability standards, telemetry strategies, and alerting frameworks
• Implement OpenTelemetry instrumentation and OpenSearch-based solutions across apps and infrastructure
• Design dashboards, analytics, and reporting to improve transparency and efficiency
• Develop automation tools and processes to reduce manual overhead
• Integrate observability frameworks with enterprise monitoring platforms like Geneos
• Provide documentation and handover for long-term sustainability
• Apply SRE principles to enhance stability, scalability and reduce incidents

Key requirements

• Senior SRE or Observability Engineer with enterprise-scale implementation experience
• Strong OpenTelemetry expertise including instrumentation and telemetry pipelines
• Deep knowledge of OpenSearch for architecture, indexing, optimization, and analytics
• Experience building dashboards and alerts with Grafana
• Familiarity with enterprise monitoring tools such as Geneos
• Practical understanding of SRE practices and automation
• Background in high-availability or mission-critical environments; financial services experience is desirable
• Knowledge of anomaly detection, alert correlation, and incident response automation
• Exposure to observability in cloud-native or hybrid setups

• collaboration
• problem-solving
• attention to detail
• OpenTelemetry instrumentation
• OpenTelemetry telemetry pipelines
• OpenSearch data indexing and analytics

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