Job Description
Senior Observability Engineer - FinTech - £90K
Our client is one of the world’s leading financial technology (FinTech) companies.
They’re looking to hire an experienced Monitoring / Observability engineer to grow their core Infrastructure Engineering team and build out their Observability Platform, Automation and Performance function.
You’ll be a key part of the engineering of monitoring, observability and automation solutions, covering key production systems and applications across their entire IT estate.
You’ll help drive the vision, design and implementation of monitoring and observability systems including OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus and Splunk etc.
Working side by side with DevOps teams you’ll also have the chance to work with containers and Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker and Ansible.
This is a true greenfield opportunity. You’ll be joining right at the start of new investment and a drive to revolutionise their infrastructure and re-define what they can do with monitoring, DevOps and automation tools.
Requirements:
- Excellent previous experience in a similar Observability / Monitoring role.
- Experience of engineering and supporting solutions (OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk etc)
- Experience with tools such as Jenkins, Ansible or Puppet
- Good knowledge of Linux and infrastructure support
- Experience of CI/CD, Cloud (AWS, GCP) and DevOps would be ideal
- Experience of automation and scripting with Python and / or Bash
- Experience working in complex, large-scale, distributed IT infrastructures
- Excellent communication skills