Senior DevOps Engineer

Observability Engineer (SC Eligible)

Rate: £580/day Inside IR35 Duration: 6 months Location: Mostly remote (Telford occasional onsite - 2 days/month) Clearance: SC Eligible

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Observability Engineer to design, implement, and support enterprise-grade monitoring and observability solutions across complex technology environments. The role focuses on improving service visibility, performance insight, and proactive incident detection.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement end-to-end observability solutions across enterprise platforms
• Translate NFRs and monitoring requirements into Dynatrace configurations
• Deliver APM, log analytics, synthetic monitoring, and infrastructure observability
• Build and maintain dashboards, alerts, and performance visualisations
• Integrate observability into architecture, development, and delivery processes
• Support proactive incident management and service reliability improvements
• Collaborate with architects, engineers, and delivery teams across technical and non-technical groups
• Drive continuous improvement in monitoring maturity across teams

Required Skills Experience

• Strong background in SRE principles and methodologies
• Hands-on experience with Dynatrace (mandatory)
• Strong understanding of APM tooling and enterprise observability
• Experience with logs, metrics, synthetics, and distributed system monitoring
• Ability to analyse and resolve complex technical issues
• Strong communication skills with ability to engage stakeholders at all levels
• Experience working in complex, enterprise-scale environments

Desirable

• Dynatrace Associate Certification
• Experience working in immature or evolving observability environments
• Exposure to large-scale transformation or cloud-native systems

If this matches your skills and experience, please apply today!