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