Observability Engineer

Observability Engineer (SC Eligible)

Rate: £580/day Inside IR35
Duration: 6 months
Location: Mostly remote (Telford occasional onsite - 2 days/month)
Clearance: SC Eligible

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Observability Engineer to design, implement, and support enterprise-grade monitoring and observability solutions across complex technology environments. The role focuses on improving service visibility, performance insight, and proactive incident detection.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement end-to-end observability solutions across enterprise platforms

• Translate NFRs and monitoring requirements into Dynatrace configurations

• Deliver APM, log analytics, synthetic monitoring, and infrastructure observability

• Build and maintain dashboards, alerts, and performance visualisations

• Integrate observability into architecture, development, and delivery processes

• Support proactive incident management and service reliability improvements

• Collaborate with architects, engineers, and delivery teams across technical and non-technical groups

• Drive continuous improvement in monitoring maturity across teams

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong background in SRE principles and methodologies

• Hands-on experience with Dynatrace (mandatory)

• Strong understanding of APM tooling and enterprise observability

• Experience with logs, metrics, synthetics, and distributed system monitoring

• Ability to analyse and resolve complex technical issues

• Strong communication skills with ability to engage stakeholders at all levels

• Experience working in complex, enterprise-scale environments

Desirable

• Dynatrace Associate Certification

• Experience working in immature or evolving observability environments

• Exposure to large-scale transformation or cloud-native systems

If this matches your skills and experience, please apply today!