Observability Engineer / SRE (Dynatrace Specialist) - Hybrid London - Up to £650/day Inside IR35 | Dynatrace | Observability | Opentelemetry | Devops | SRE

Overview

A leading energy trading organisation is scaling out a core observability initiative following a successful 6‐month project focused on monitoring business flows across their estate. They are now moving into an exciting phase: onboarding a new vendor, deploying monitoring at scale, and embedding observability practices across the wider business.

You will work closely with a highly capable lead engineer and another observability specialist. This is a hands‐on, system-focused role where you’ll build tooling in‐house, problem‐solve creatively, and help define how the business measures performance, reliability, and telemetry moving forward.

Location: London, in office 2-3 days a week

Contract: 6 months initial (extension highly likely)

Rate: Up to £650/day Inside IR35

Start: ASAP

What You’ll Be Doing

• Deploy and scale observability tooling across core systems, with a strong emphasis on Dynatrace (top priority).

• Work on expanding POCs into full-scale enterprise solutions using Grafana and other observability tools.

• Lead the configuration, optimisation, and tuning of monitoring across a complex estate.

• Embed observability practices into the business: partner with stakeholders, explain metrics, and guide adoption.

• Support a new vendor onboarding process from a monitoring and instrumentation point of view.

• Help build in‐house tooling where no existing patterns or templates exist.

• Collaborate closely with a small, senior team to define standards, instrumentation approaches, dashboards, and alerts.

• Contribute to operational maturity, particularly around SLOs, SLIs, performance standards, and reliability metrics.

Essential

• Strong experience with Dynatrace (must-have).

• Broad DevOps/SRE background with exposure to various tech stacks.

• Solid understanding of observability principles, instrumentation, telemetry, and distributed systems monitoring.

• Hands-on experience with Grafana and ideally other monitoring tools.

• Practical experience with OpenTelemetry (crucial standard for this project).

• Ability to interpret data, troubleshoot issues, and create meaningful insights across systems.

• Strong problem-solving mindset—comfortable designing in-house solutions with minimal templates.

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with .NET / C# (not essential but helps in understanding monitored workloads).

• Experience working with SLO/SLI frameworks and reliability standards.

• Ability to work with Python and SQL (reading Python is enough; SQL understanding is more important).

• Experience operating in cloud and on-prem environments.

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Observability Engineer / SRE (Dynatrace Specialist) - Hybrid London - Up to £650/day Inside IR35 | Dynatrace | Observability | Opentelemetry | Devops | SRE

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