At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and implement cutting-edge observability solutions for enterprise-scale applications.
- Company: Join Tata Consultancy Services, a leader in tech innovation and inclusivity.
- Benefits: Enjoy a competitive salary, hybrid work options, and a focus on professional growth.
- Other info: Be part of a diverse team committed to equity and inclusion in the workplace.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by enhancing platform reliability and driving modern observability practices.
- Qualifications: Experience with observability solutions, Kubernetes, and automation scripting is essential.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Role
Senior Observability Engineer
Job Type
Permanent
Location
London, UK / Hybrid
Number of hours
40 hours per week - full time
The Role
As a Senior Observability Engineer.
You will be joining our global Monitoring and Observability team.
In this role, you will design, implement, and support enterprise-scale observability solutions that deliver end-to-end visibility across applications, infrastructure, and cloud platforms.
You will drive monitoring strategy, enhance platform reliability, and enable proactive incident detection and resolution through modern observability practices, automation, and actionable operational insights.
Key responsibilities
- Design, build and manage enterprise observability solutions covering metrics, logs and distributed tracing.
- Support the strategic migration from legacy monitoring platforms to a modern observability ecosystem.
- Administer, maintain and scale observability platforms running on Open Shift and Kubernetes environments.
- Implement and manage observability instrumentation using Open Telemetry frameworks.
- Develop and maintain monitoring, alerting and dashboarding solutions using Grafana Enterprise technologies.
- Build and optimize Prometheus-based monitoring solutions and create efficient Prom QL queries.
- Create and maintain Helm charts to support platform deployment and lifecycle management.
- Automate operational processes, deployments and system configuration through scripting and tooling.
- Collaborate with engineering, infrastructure and application teams to establish observability standards and best practices.
- Contribute to platform reliability, performance optimization and continuous service improvement initiatives.
Your Profile
Essential skills/knowledge/experience
- Proven experience in designing and operating enterprise observability solutions.
- Hands-on expertise in at least one of the following areas: Open Telemetry, Grafana Enterprise Stack (Mimir, Loki, Tempo) and ITRS Geneos administration.
- Google Cloud Observability
- Strong experience administering Open Shift and/or Kubernetes environments.
- Expertise with Prometheus monitoring and advanced Prom QL query development.
- Strong experience with Grafana dashboard creation, alerting and data source management.
- Experience creating, deploying and maintaining Helm charts.
- Understanding of observability principles including metrics, logs, traces and alerting strategies.
- Experience supporting large-scale, highly available production platforms.
- Ability to drive best practices and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Automation and scripting experience using Python.
- Automation and scripting experience using Bash.
- Familiarity with enterprise CI/CD pipelines and deployment tooling.
- Experience supporting cloud-native transformation programs.
- Knowledge of site reliability engineering (SRE) and operational excellence practices.
- Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing
Tata Consultancy Services UK&I is committed to meeting the accessibility needs of all individuals in accordance with the UK Equality Act 2010 and the UK Human Rights Act 1998.
We believe in building and sustaining a culture of equity and belonging where everyone can thrive.
Our diversity and inclusion motto is 'Inclusion without Exception'.
Our continued commitment to Culture and Diversity is reflected across our workforce implemented through equitable workplace policies and processes.
We welcome and embrace diversity in race, nationality, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender identity, age, physical ability, gender reassignment, sexual orientation.
We are a disability inclusive employer and encourage disabled people to apply for this role.
If you are an applicant who needs any adjustments to the application process or interview, please contact us at UKI. recruitment@tcs. com with the subject line: "Adjustment Request" or call TCS London Office 02031552100 to request an adjustment.
We welcome requests prior to you completing the application and at any stage of the recruitment process.
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