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Senior Observability Engineer - Remote - £350/day

We Are Orbis Group LtdUnited Kingdom🇬🇧United KingdomPosted 29 Sept 2026

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Employment type
Temporary/Casual
Work mode
Remote
Location
United Kingdom

Job Description

Senior Observability Engineer - Remote - £350/day

We're looking for an experienced Observability Engineer to join a major technology transformation programme. This is a hands-on role focused on designing and implementing scalable observability solutions across complex technology environments.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design and implement observability solutions across cloud, SaaS, hosted and on-premises environments

  • Develop and improve standards for telemetry, dashboards, alerting and service health

  • Work closely with engineering and product teams to embed observability across their services

  • Implement and manage metrics, logs, traces and events

  • Build dashboards, service health measures and actionable alerting

  • Develop reusable automation, templates and configuration-as-code approaches

  • Support incident diagnosis, reliability improvement and operational processes

  • Provide technical guidance, peer review and mentoring to engineering teams

Key Skills:

  • Strong commercial Observability Engineering experience

  • Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry and/or enterprise observability platforms

  • Strong experience with metrics, logs, traces, dashboards and alerting

  • Experience with automation, APIs, distributed systems, CI/CD and infrastructure/configuration as code

  • Experience across cloud, SaaS, hosted and/or on-premises environments

  • Strong understanding of reliability, incident diagnosis and service improvement

  • Experience with Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Elastic, Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics or Azure Monitor is beneficial

  • SRE, SLI/SLO, microservices, API or container experience is advantageous

Location: UK based (fully remote)
Duration: Contract
Rate: £350 per day (Inside IR35)
Start: ASAP

Senior Observability Engineer - Remote - £350/day

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