Platform Engineer (Monitoring)

Job Title: Platform Engineer (Monitoring)
Location: Telford (2x days on-site per week)
Salary/Rate: £535 Per Day - inside IR35
Start Date: 03/11/2025
Job Type: Initial 6 month contract

Company Introduction

We have an exciting opportunity now available with one of our sector-leading consultancy clients! They are currently looking for a skilled CDS Platform Engineer to join their team in Telford.

Job Responsibilities/Objectives

As a BOMS Monitoring Engineer, you will work within the Business Outcomes & Monitoring Solutions (BOMS) team-a multi-client centre of excellence delivering operational monitoring capabilities and tooling solutions that drive business intelligence and service assurance. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting monitoring solutions across a range of technologies and platforms, ensuring service stability, performance insight, and proactive incident management.

• Translate high-level monitoring non-functional requirements (NFRs) into actionable configurations across tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, and AppDynamics.
• Deliver full-stack observability solutions, including application-aware network performance monitoring (NPM), synthetics, log analytics, and infrastructure metrics.
• Provide live support for monitoring technologies and assist with live service support, including key business events and incident response (some KBE's may be out of hours).
• Collaborate with architects and project teams to integrate monitoring into solution designs and test strategies.
• Maintain and enhance dashboards, alerts, and visualisations to support proactive service management.
• Participate in continuous improvement initiatives and tooling exploitation to enhance operational efficiency efficiency within immature teams

Required Skills/Experience
The ideal candidate will have the following:

• Strong understanding and experience in SRE principals and methodologies
• Strong understanding of Observability within a complex tech stack
• Hands-on experience with monitoring tools such as Splunk, Splunk ITSI, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, and synthetic monitoring platforms.
• Strong understanding and experience with implementing and using APM tooling
• Ability to analyse and resolve complex technical problems and document solutions effectively.
• Able to work closely with technical and non-technical stakeholders, to bring them along on a journey of change
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a proactive and detail-oriented mindset.

Desirable Skills/Experience
Although not essential, the following skills are desired by the client:

• Splunk Core Certified User / ITSI Certified Administrator
• Dynatrace Associate Certification
• Cisco AppDynamics Associate Performance Analyst
• Understanding of log and synthetic monitoring principles
• Able to work closely with technical and non-technical stakeholders, to bring them along on a journey of change

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.
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