Observability Platform Engineer

Posted 06 December 2022
Salary £85000 - £90000 per annum
LocationLondon
Job type Permanent
Discipline DevOps & Cloud
ReferenceBH-3350
Contact NameKai Wilton-Ali

Job description

Overview

Observability Engineer to design, implement, operate, and support technologies, systems, and tools to advance a next generation Observability Platform

General Duties

  • Keep up to date with recent technologies in the Observability area
  • Perform pilot implementations of services
  • Consult with other technology teams on Observability
  • Implement production ready enterprise grade services for Observability
  • Perform ahead-of-time capacity planning
  • Keep up-to-date customer and service level documentation
  • Provide training for wider IT Department
  • Provide operation production support for Observability services


Knowledge and Experience

  • Experience with DevOps and CI/CD pipelines and building them
  • Good working knowledge of Observability technologies, such as InfluxDB, Jaeger, Prometheus, ELK.
  • Use of programming languages (e.g. Python) to create production-grade APIs and integrations
  • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, GIT, Helm
  • Experience with automation frameworks like Ansible
  • Working knowledge of Kafka
  • Working knowledge of Linux environment

Qualification and Skills


  • Good communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Forward thinking, self-starter, able to work independently
  • Willingness to learn and adopt to new technologies