Site Reliability Engineer

Observability Engineer (m/f/d) | Financial Services | Remote | 6-Month Contract

Our client is a global financial markets organisation seeking an Observability Engineer to design and scale advanced telemetry and monitoring capabilities across complex, distributed systems, ensuring high system reliability, performance, and real-time operational insight.

Project Details:

Duration: 6 months (potential for extension)

Workload: 5 days per week (full-time)

Location: Fully Remote

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and operate scalable telemetry pipelines for metrics, logs, and traces across distributed systems.
• Define and implement observability standards, including dashboards, alerting strategies, and SLI/SLO frameworks.
• Integrate and optimise observability tooling such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Kafka, and Elastic stack.
• Embed observability into the SDLC, including CI/CD pipelines, automated validations, and deployment health checks.
• Collaborate with platform, SRE, and engineering teams to improve system visibility and reliability.
• Drive best practices in monitoring, incident response, and post-incident analysis.
• Continuously enhance observability capabilities to reduce time-to-detect and time-to-resolve issues.
• Support automation and infrastructure-as-code approaches for scalable observability deployment.
• Contribute to technical design discussions, architecture decisions, and platform improvements.

Requirements:

• Proven experience as an Observability Engineer, SRE, or Platform Engineer in complex environments.
• Strong hands-on expertise with observability tools such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Elastic, or Kafka.
• Experience with cloud-native technologies, including Kubernetes, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (Python, Go, or Java).
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Ansible.
• Strong understanding of SLIs, SLOs, and modern alerting strategies.
• Experience integrating observability within CI/CD pipelines and software delivery processes.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder collaboration skills.
• Experience in regulated or financial environments is highly desirable.