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System Monitoring & Observability Engineer
£42,000 - 60,000
SRT Marine Systems PLC
Town Hall Square, Cardiff
£42,000 - 60,000
Requirements
Must:
- Proven experience with Prometheus (including PromQL) and Grafana in production environments
- Strong knowledge of Linux-based systems
- Experience writing and optimising PromQL queries for alerts and dashboards
- Familiarity with exporters (node_exporter, blackbox_exporter, custom exporters)
- Understanding of alertmanager configuration and routing
- Proficiency with Grafana dashboard creation and templating
- Strong troubleshooting skills for infrastructure and application issues
- Familiarity with containers (Docker)
- Scripting skills (Bash, Python, or Go) for automation
Responsibilities
- Design, configure, and maintain Prometheus-based monitoring solutions
- Develop and manage metric exporters for application and system-level data
- Optimise Prometheus scraping configurations and retention policies
- Define and maintain alert rules based on SLIs/SLOs and performance baselines
- Ensure alerts are actionable, with minimal false positives
- Participate (not necessarily lead) in on-call rotations and incident postmortems
- Design and maintain Grafana dashboards for real-time operational insights
- Collaborate with engineering and product teams to create tailored visualisations
- Provide self-service dashboard capabilities for end users
- Monitor infrastructure (servers, containers, databases, services) for uptime, latency, and throughput
- Identify bottlenecks and recommend improvements
Description
We at SRT Marine Systems plc are a market leader in international marine surveillance technology and systems, headquartered in the UK with a global customer base. We focus on enhancing security, safety, environmental protection, and sustainability through next-generation maritime domain awareness technologies. Our company values high-quality results and fosters innovation, making it a rewarding place for talented individuals to make an impact in the marine industry. We offer benefits such as highly competitive salaries, matched pension contributions, annual leave, and career development opportunities.
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