Observability Engineer
Clearance Required: SC Eligible
Duration: 6 months
Location: Telford - 2 days min per month
IR35 Status: Mandated PAYE only
Role Description: As an Observability Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting monitoring solutions across a range of technologies and platforms, ensuring service stability, performance insight, and proactive incident management.
Key Responsibilities
- Translate high-level monitoring and non-functional requirements (NFRs) into actionable configurations in Dynatrace.
- Deliver full-stack observability solutions, including application-aware network performance monitoring (NPM), synthetics, log analytics, and infrastructure metrics.
- Collaborate with architects and project teams to integrate monitoring into solution designs and test strategies.
- Maintain and enhance dashboards, alerts, and visualisations to support proactive service management.
- Participate in continuous improvement initiatives and tooling exploitation to enhance operational efficiency within immature teams.
Required Skills and Experience
- Strong understanding and experience in SRE principals and methodologies
- Strong understanding of Observability within a complex tech stack
- Hands‑on experience with monitoring tools including Dynatrace.
- Strong understanding and experience with implementing and using APM tooling including Dynatrace
- Ability to analyse and resolve complex technical problems and document solutions effectively.
- Understanding of log and synthetic monitoring principles
- Able to work closely with technical and non-technical stakeholders, to bring them along on a journey of change
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a proactive and detail-oriented mindset.
Desirable Certifications
- Dynatrace Associate Certification
