Telemetry & Observability Engineer/SRE

The Opportunity

We're supporting a globally recognised organisation seeking a highly technical Telemetry & Observability Engineer with strong experience in instrumentation, telemetry pipelines, and cloud-native observability platforms.

This is a hands-on engineering role focused on designing, implementing, and optimising telemetry and monitoring solutions across complex distributed environments.

Please note: this is a high-bar role. We are specifically looking for engineers who can design and implement telemetry solutions, not candidates who are purely end users of monitoring tools.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement telemetry and observability solutions across distributed systems
• Build and optimise pipelines for metrics, logs, traces, and infrastructure telemetry
• Develop instrumentation and monitoring strategies using modern observability tooling
• Work closely with engineering and platform teams to improve reliability, visibility, and operational insight
• Configure and enhance monitoring, alerting, and visualisation capabilities
• Contribute to automation, CI/CD, and SRE practices across cloud-native environments

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong hands-on experience in DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering
• Strong Python development and automation skills
• Experience with telemetry protocols and instrumentation including:
  • SNMP/SNMP MIBs
  • NETCONF
  • YANG telemetry
• Strong experience with:
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • InfluxDB
  • ClickHouse
• Experience designing and implementing observability solutions (not just consuming dashboards)
• Strong understanding of cloud-native and distributed systems environments
• Experience with CI/CD, Kubernetes, and infrastructure automation

Desirable

• OpenTelemetry experience
• Experience with telemetry collectors/exporters
• Experience in financial services, telecoms, or large-scale enterprise environments

Location: Primarily Remote (UK/Europe - preference for candidates near London)

Duration: Initial 6 months (strong likelihood of extension)
Start: ASAP
Rate: TBC (competitive, senior-level contract)

Why Apply?

• Opportunity to work on large-scale telemetry and observability initiatives
• Hands-on engineering environment with modern tooling
• High-impact role within a globally recognised organisation
• Strong extension potential

If you have deep experience in telemetry, instrumentation, and observability engineering and enjoy solving complex reliability and monitoring challenges, we'd like to hear from you.