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Telemetry and Observability Engineer
£103,400 - 113,300
Oscar Associates Limited
Eastbury Avenue 32, South East London
£103,400 - 113,300
Requirements
Must:
- 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
Technologies
AI
CI/CD
OpenTelemetry
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
Description
We are seeking a highly skilled Telemetry & Observability Engineer to join our large-scale enterprise engineering environment in London. This contract position offers £475-£515 per day, is inside IR35, and requires 3 days on site over a 6-month period. Our focus is on improving system reliability, visibility, and operational intelligence across complex distributed platforms. We value innovation, collaboration, and expertise in building and automating observability solutions.
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