Observability Engineer (Custom Data Integration)
Job Title: Observability Engineer (Custom Data Integration)
Location: Remote(UK)
Key responsibilities
- Design and implement observability frameworks: Integrate and manage monitoring, logging, and tracing for cloud-native and on-premises systems.
- Data integration and ingestion: Build systems to collect and ingest data from various sources, often through APIs, and manage time-series data at scale.
- Develop custom solutions: Create custom dashboards, alerts, and reporting views to provide clear, actionable insights into system performance.
- Build status pages: Develop and maintain status pages that provide a user friendly web experience to communicate system health to stakeholders.
- Tooling expertise: Leverage expertise in tools like Prometheus and Grafana for time-series data collection and visualization, and Dynatrace for deep-dive analysis and monitoring.
- Collaboration and evangelism: Work with development, operations, and SRE teams to identify performance metrics (e.g., latency, errors)
- Performance and reliability: Use data-driven insights to improve system reliability, reduce Mean Time To Resolution (MTTR), and optimize resource usage. Required skills and qualifications
Technical skills:
- Proficiency in Prometheus, Grafana, and Dynatrace. o Experience with time-series data, including PromQL.
- Strong knowledge of API design, data modeling, and data pipelines.
- Expertise in scripting and backend development (e.g., Python, Go, Java).
Experience:
- Proven experience designing and scaling observability stacks for production systems.
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure). o Experience with containerization (e.g., Kubernetes) is often required. o Familiarity with dashboards as code and Terraform.
Soft skills:
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to translate complex data into actionable recommendations for technical and non-technical audiences.
About Us:
Ascendion is a global, leading provider of AI-first software engineering services, delivering transformative solutions across North America, APAC, and Europe. We are headquartered in New Jersey. We combine technology and talent to deliver tech debt relief, improve engineering productivity solutions, and accelerate time to value, driving our clients' digital journeys with efficiency and velocity. Guided by our "Engineering to the power of AI" [EngineeringAI] methodology, we integrate AI into software engineering, enterprise operations, and talent orchestration, to address critical challenges of trust, speed, and capital. For more information, please go to
With Ascendion ( you:
Will get to work on numerous challenging and exciting projects on our various offerings including Salesforce, AI/Data Science, Generative AI/ML, Automation, Cloud Enterprise and Product/Platform Engineering. At Ascendion you have high chances of project extension or redeployment to other clients. Additionally, you can also share CV of anyone you know. We have a referral policy in place.