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OpenShift Telemetry Engineer
£45,000 - 75,000
Avance Consulting
Paris Garden 2, South East London
£45,000 - 75,000
Requirements
Must:
- Hands-on experience building streaming data pipelines with Kafka (producers/consumers, schema registry, Kafka Connect, KSQL, Kafka Streams)
- Strong experience with OpenShift / Kubernetes telemetry, including OpenTelemetry and Prometheus
- Experience integrating telemetry into Splunk (HEC, Universal Forwarder, source types, CIM) and building dashboards and alerts
- Strong data engineering skills using Python (or similar languages) for ETL/ELT, enrichment, and validation
- Experience with event schemas (Avro, Protobuf, JSON) and schema compatibility strategies
- Familiarity with observability frameworks and maturity models, driving toward Level 4 observability (proactive monitoring and automated insights)
- Understanding of hybrid cloud and multi-cluster telemetry architectures
- Security and compliance practices for data pipelines, including: Secret management, RBAC, and encryption in transit and at rest
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
- Ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams
- Excellent communication and documentation skills
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain data pipelines to ingest and process OpenShift telemetry data (metrics, logs, and traces) at scale
- Stream OpenShift telemetry through Kafka (producers, topics, schemas) and build resilient consumer services for transformation and enrichment
- Engineer data models and routing mechanisms for multi-tenant observability while ensuring data lineage, quality, and SLA adherence across streaming layers
- Integrate processed telemetry into Splunk for dashboards, visualization, alerting, and analytics to achieve Observability Level 4 (proactive insights)
- Implement schema management, governance, and versioning using Avro or Protobuf for telemetry events
- Build automated validation, replay, and backfill mechanisms to ensure data reliability and recovery
- Instrument services with OpenTelemetry, standardizing tracing, metrics, and structured logging across platforms
- Utilize LLM-based capabilities to enhance observability (e.g., query assistance, anomaly summarization, runbook generation)
- Collaborate with Platform, SRE, and Application teams to integrate telemetry, alerts, and SLOs
- Ensure security, compliance, and best practices for telemetry data pipelines and observability platforms
- Document data flows, schemas, dashboards, and operational runbooks
Description
We are seeking a skilled OpenShift Telemetry Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for implementing, managing, and optimizing the observability stack within a Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform environment to ensure system health, performance, and security. We offer a collaborative work environment where you can leverage modern telemetry and data streaming tools as you act as a bridge between application monitoring and infrastructure observability.
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