Job Description

Job Title : Observability Engineer

About Client:

A FTSE 250 global fintech company headquartered in London with a presence in 18 countries and five continents. Their award winning products and platforms empower go getters worldwide, giving them access to over 19,000 financial markets.

Location: Bengaluru

Mode of Working: Hybrid (2-3 days from office)

Your role in the Team:

They’re looking for an experienced Senior Observability Engineer to join their team and help them build a best-in-class Observability Platform using the latest technologies. You will be responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining our Observability Platform, as well as collaborating with other teams to ensure that their systems are reliable, performant and observable.

What you’ll do:

As an Observability Engineer, you'll play a vital role in this by:

• Relevant experience in designing, implementing and maintaining our Observability platform using tools such as OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus and Splunk
• Developing instrumentation strategies to capture relevant telemetry data for comprehensive visibility.
• Utilising data visualisation tools to analyse trends, identify anomalies and diagnose issues proactively.
• Create and optimise alerting systems to provide timely notifications for potential problems.
• Work in a DevOps environment, using continuous delivery best practices.
• Collaborating with developers and operations teams to translate insights into actionable improvements.
• Stay up-to-date on the latest observability trends and technologies.
• Mentor and collaborate with other engineers to promote a culture of learning and innovation.

What you’ll need for this role:

• Strong understanding of monitoring and logging concepts and tools (OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Splunk, Prometheus, SLOs).
• Experience with Continuous Delivery and best practices ( Gitlab).
• Knowledge of distributed tracing concepts is a plus.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with diverse teams.
• Critical thinking ability and proactive approach to identifying and resolving issues.
• Curiosity and willingness to learn.
• Passion for learning and staying ahead of the curve in the technology landscape.

Bonus points:

• Experience with cloud platforms (eg, AWS, GCP)
• Experience with containers (Nomad, Docker)