Join a UK-based tech-driven company at the forefront of financial data innovation. 

Our client is seeking a Senior DevOps observability engineer who will be part of a talented team of DevOps practitioners supporting teams delivering business critical software for the internal broking division and their external customer base. You will work within the Observability team integrating OpenTelemetry into software applications and help build and maintain Observability Platform as a part of DevOps Tooling and Capabilities. This role will be an important part in steering the future direction of Observability, offering observability as code, in the delivery pipelines, setting the standards and guardrails for all teams and the organisation as a whole, building world class Observability.

Role Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Observability and DevOps Engineers to design/build/deploy and maintain an Observability solution to align to the IT strategy/vision and strategic DevOps practices.

• Work across application teams in TPICAP to integrate the Observability solution into the delivery pipelines and in the application codebase

• Communicate with governance streams to ensure adherence to and development of process, quality and architectural design

• Deliver against both Functional and Non-functional requirements.

• Take Ownership/Accountability for development of key features and drive to completion.

• Communicate effectively on progress and ensure impediments are raised early to minimise impact on the delivery.

• Take part in incident management to ensure Production defects are rectified based on their criticality and severity and to a sufficient standard.

• Guide and support team in implementation and adherence to Change Control principles

• Ensure inter-project dependencies and projects risks are understood and managed

• Use technical experience to collaborate with architecture to guide software solutions

Experience / Competences

Essential

• Understanding of Observability pillars and knowledge of tools in this area such as Grafana, Prometheus, OpenSearch and CloudWatch

• Hands on experience in deploying and managing AWS resources

• Demonstrate current experience of hands-on Full-Stack Software Engineering using either Java or Microsoft c#, Typescript, JavaScript and scripting languages such as Python and PowerShell

• Experience of Application Lifecycle Management Tools and technologies such as Source Code Management; git, DevOps platforms; Gitlab, TeamCity, Sonatype Nexus

• Experience of and understanding of the importance of monitoring application as well as infrastructure in both non production and production systems

Desired

• Experience of using and setting up enterprise level Monitoring tools

• OpenTelemetry – instrumentation and use of OTEL solutions

• APM Experience - AppDynamics\ DataDog \ Dynatrace

• AWS OpenSearch\Elastic, and ingestion tooling \ Crbl

• Grafana & Prometheus

• Knowledge and use of Cloud Technologies and concepts preferably on AWS or Azure/GCP etc.

• Experience of utilising Dev(Sec)Ops to automate and minimise delivery times from Development to Production e.g. utilising CI\CD

• Use of and working with Containerization to aid deployability, testing and loose coupling.

• Agile exponent to speed up delivery, reduce risk and provide maximum value to the end users

• Knowledge of the Broking \ Trading business domain

• Knowledge or application of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)