Telemetry and Observability Engineer x2

We're working with a globally recognised financial markets organisation undergoing a significant evolution in how it monitors and understands its systems.

This is a hands-on contract role focused on improving and scaling an existing observability environment, with the opportunity to help shape and potentially build out a next-generation solution.

What You'll Be Doing

• Designing and improving telemetry pipelines (metrics, logs, traces) across distributed systems
• Enhancing monitoring, alerting, and observability standards
• Working closely with engineering teams to improve system visibility and reliability
• Integrating and optimising tools such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Kafka, Splunk, Elastic, Loki
• Driving better incident response, root cause analysis, and performance insights
• Embedding observability into the software development life cycle (CI/CD, testing, deployments)

What We're Looking For

• Strong experience in Observability, SRE, or Platform Engineering
• Hands-on expertise with modern telemetry and monitoring tooling
• Experience working in cloud-native environments (Kubernetes, microservices)
• Ability to define and improve SLIs, SLOs, and alerting strategies
• Proficiency in at least one language (Python, Go, or Java)
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible)

Nice to Have

• Experience in financial services or regulated environments
• Exposure to large-scale, complex distributed systems

Why Apply?

• High-impact role within a large-scale, globally recognised environment
• Opportunity to shape observability strategy and tooling direction
• Modern tech stack and engineering practices
• Strong chance of contract extension and long-term engagement

Location: Primarily Remote (UK preference for candidates near London)
Duration: Initial 6 months (strong likelihood of extension)
Start: ASAP
Rate: TBC AND Inside IR35

Please note: this role requires a high level of expertise, and we are only able to consider candidates with strong and directly relevant experience.