At a Glance
- Tasks: Design solutions for deep insights into system health and build sophisticated monitoring dashboards.
- Company: Join a forward-thinking tech company embracing an observability-first mindset.
- Benefits: Enjoy hybrid working, competitive salary, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Collaborative team culture with opportunities to mentor and evolve processes.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by shaping how we understand our systems and improve uptime.
- Qualifications: Experience with monitoring tools, programming, and cloud environments is preferred.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
We’re moving from simple monitoring to an observability-first mindset.
As an Observability Engineer, you’ll be at the heart of this shift.
You’ll design solutions that give us deep insights into system health, helping us reduce MTTD and MTTR.
You’ll work with a comprehensive toolkit to provide analytics, alerting, and remediation strategies for our cloud and on-premise applications.
This role is about more than just keeping the lights on; it’s about building a platform that lets us truly understand our systems.
You’ll set the standards for observability, ensuring it’s baked into every new system we build.
This role is eligible for inclusion in the Company’s hybrid working from home policy.
- Preferred Skills And Experience
- Excellent knowledge of contemporary monitoring, analytics tooling and best practice.
- Strong experience integrating systems and applications with monitoring and APM tools.
- Demonstrable experience instrumenting applications for observability, ideally with Open Telemetry.
- Experience with Ia C, automation and orchestration tools such as Ansible and Terraform.
- Basic programming experience, ideally with Python, Golang or Javascript.
- Basic scripting ability with Powershell and Bash.
- Strong experience working in a large scale, 24/7 enterprise where system uptime is paramount.
- Experience with public and private Cloud.
- Proficiency with Linux operating system.
- Ability to work with autonomy and collaborate well within a wider team.
- What you will be doing
- Building sophisticated monitoring dashboards using log data, metrics, traces and profiles from sources like New Relic, Grafana, Splunk, Kibana and Pyroscope.
- Administrating an incident response platform, like Pager Duty, to enable fast and efficient resolution of incidents.
- Working with service owners on integrations while supporting the onboarding of telemetry data.
- Using automation and orchestration platforms to streamline manual processes and workflows.
- Promoting an observability-first mindset and encourage best practices across teams.
- Contributing to the development of standards for monitoring, logging and tracing.
- Evolving team processes and approaches.
- Mentoring colleagues in the use of new technologies or practices.
- Maintaining and administer existing monitoring and analytic tools.
- Collaborating across teams to solve complex challenges and prevent recurrence.
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Observability Engineer in Manchester employer: Manchester Digital
At Manchester Digital, we pride ourselves on fostering a collaborative and innovative work culture that empowers our employees to excel. As a Chief Software Engineering Leader, you will not only lead a talented team but also enjoy flexible working arrangements, competitive pension contributions, and generous annual leave that grows with your tenure, making it an ideal environment for personal and professional growth.
