Remote Network Monitoring Engineer - VictoriaMetrics in Birmingham

70,000 - 75,000 (pro-rata) 6-month FTC

Role Overview:

Our client, a growing technology and infrastructure business, is looking for an experienced Network Monitoring Engineer to support a major network infrastructure programme. This is a hands-on role focused on building, improving and commissioning monitoring capability across newly deployed infrastructure and network equipment. The business needs someone who can ensure the environment is visible, measurable and supportable from day one.

A key part of the role will be working with VictoriaMetrics in a production environment, including configuration, optimisation, ingestion, retention and performance tuning. You will also work across streaming telemetry, Nagios, Grafana and wider observability tooling. This would suit someone with strong network monitoring experience who is comfortable taking ownership of a critical technical workstream in a project-led environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and deploy monitoring solutions across newly delivered network infrastructure.
• Configure, optimise and tune VictoriaMetrics for production network monitoring.
• Support metrics ingestion, retention, query performance and long-term platform reliability.
• Build streaming telemetry pipelines to provide real-time visibility across the network.
• Implement and manage Nagios-based monitoring for alerting and service health.
• Develop dashboards in Grafana, or similar, to support engineering and operational teams.
• Commission monitoring across network devices, access infrastructure and Layer 1-3 equipment.
• Define baseline performance metrics, thresholds and SLA-led alerting.
• Work closely with network and operational teams to align monitoring with changing infrastructure requirements.
• Support the use of analytics-led monitoring for anomaly detection and predictive fault identification.
• Improve monitoring architecture, tooling, documentation and handover processes.
• Produce clear runbooks, escalation paths and operational guides.
• Support knowledge transfer into internal technical teams.

What We're Looking for:

• Strong hands-on experience with VictoriaMetrics in a production environment.
• Previous experience in a senior network monitoring, network engineering or observability-focused role.
• Experience working in a telecoms, ISP, managed network or large-scale infrastructure environment.
• Good understanding of time-series monitoring, metrics ingestion, retention and performance tuning.
• Solid knowledge of Nagios, including configuration, plugins and alerting workflows.
• Experience with streaming telemetry tools and protocols such as gNMI, gRPC, Telegraf or gNMIc.
• Strong networking fundamentals across TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, VLANs and optical networks.
• Familiarity with Grafana, Prometheus or similar observability tools.
• Exposure to AI/ML-led monitoring, anomaly detection or predictive fault identification would be beneficial.
• Knowledge of SNMP, NetFlow/IPFIX or syslog pipelines would be useful.
• Scripting or automation experience, such as Python, would be advantageous.
• Comfortable working independently and delivering against defined project milestones.
• Strong communication, documentation and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Proactive, detail-focused and comfortable solving problems without heavy direction.

Why Consider this Role?

This is a strong opportunity to join a business delivering a major network infrastructure programme, in a role where monitoring and observability are central to successful delivery. You will be taking ownership of a critical technical area rather than simply maintaining an existing setup. The focus is on making sure newly deployed infrastructure is properly monitored, operationally ready and reliable from day one. For someone with strong VictoriaMetrics experience, this offers a focused 6-month project where you can make a visible impact across a live network environment.