Lead SRE/Observability Engineering Lead - (Outside IR35 Contract/Remote) Location: Bristol/London HQ - Largely Remote (Occasional Travel) Day Rate: Outside IR35 - £650 to £750 p/d Duration: 3-6 Months Initial - with intention to extend Payment Terms: Monthly Our client is a FTSE100 Wealth/Asset Management firm seeking to engage a Lead SRE Engineer (Observability … SME) to support the implementation and instrumentation of their new Observability solution. This role will be critical in delivering against our Digital OKRs by embedding observability best practices, frameworks, and tooling across digital platforms and engineering teams. Key Responsibilities: Strategy & Roadmap: Define and drive the observability roadmap in alignment with business priorities and digital platform objectives. Champion observability-by-design … manage SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to track and improve system reliability. Support capacity and availability planning through real-time telemetry and predictive analytics. Instrumentation & Runbooks: Design and implement observability runbooks covering metrics, logs, traces, synthetics, and customer journey monitoring. Set standards for instrumentation, dashboards, alerting, and enable teams to self-serve their system metrics and traces. Implementation & Enablement: Assist More ❯
Bristol, Avon, South West, United Kingdom Hybrid / WFH Options
Sanderson Recruitment
Lead SRE/Observability Engineering Lead - (Outside IR35 Contract/Remote) Location: Bristol/London HQ - Largely Remote (Occasional Travel) Day Rate: Outside IR35 - £650 to £750 p/d Duration: 3-6 Months Initial - with intention to extend Payment Terms: Monthly Our client is a FTSE100 Wealth/Asset Management firm seeking to engage a Lead SRE Engineer (Observability … SME) to support the implementation and instrumentation of their new Observability solution. This role will be critical in delivering against our Digital OKRs by embedding observability best practices, frameworks, and tooling across digital platforms and engineering teams. Key Responsibilities: Strategy & Roadmap: Define and drive the observability roadmap in alignment with business priorities and digital platform objectives. Champion observability-by-design … manage SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to track and improve system reliability. Support capacity and availability planning through real-time telemetry and predictive analytics. Instrumentation & Runbooks: Design and implement observability runbooks covering metrics, logs, traces, synthetics, and customer journey monitoring. Set standards for instrumentation, dashboards, alerting, and enable teams to self-serve their system metrics and traces. Implementation & Enablement: Assist More ❯
Bristol, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom Hybrid / WFH Options
Hargreaves Lansdown PLC
Java 11+, Springboot, RDBMS and SQL Experience with unit, integration, and end-to-end testing tools and practices Experience with CI/CD and Trunk Based Development Advocate for observability, experienced in monitoring, logging, and tracing to ensure system reliability and performance Awareness of website performance implications, best practices and other non-functional requirements Proficient in collaborative code reviews, technical More ❯
Bristol, Avon, South West, United Kingdom Hybrid / WFH Options
CACI Limited
collaborative mindset. Additional skills include: Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform Background in Configuration Management and Automation Proficiency with containers and container orchestration including Helm, Docker and Kubernetes Observability experience of designing and building monitoring and logging tools such as CloudWatch, ELK, and Grafana Basic programming skills in at least one language Experience with CI/CD pipeline development More ❯
enjoy working in a product and client value driven environment. Collaborating closely with Product Managers and business stakeholders Strong understanding of full stack engineering best practices including CICD and Observability Acted as a strong partner to multiple business areas to deliver on key priorities with a one-team mindset Strong people focus - you prioritise your team's L&D, understand More ❯
enjoy working in a product and client value driven environment. Collaborating closely with Product Managers and business stakeholders Strong understanding of full stack engineering best practices including CICD and Observability Acted as a strong partner to multiple business areas to deliver on key priorities with a one-team mindset Strong people focus - you prioritise your team's L&D, understand More ❯
enjoy working in a product and client value driven environment. Collaborating closely with Product Managers and business stakeholders Strong understanding of full stack engineering best practices including CICD and Observability Acted as a strong partner to multiple business areas to deliver on key priorities with a one-team mindset Strong people focus - you prioritise your team's L&D, understand More ❯
enjoy working in a product and client value driven environment. Collaborating closely with Product Managers and business stakeholders Strong understanding of full stack engineering best practices including CICD and Observability Acted as a strong partner to multiple business areas to deliver on key priorities with a one-team mindset Strong people focus - you prioritise your team's L&D, understand More ❯
production environments. CI/CD with Cloud Build: A good understanding of automated test, artifact build, and deployment to artifact registry. Containerisation: A solid understanding of Docker image creation Observability: Logging, monitoring, and alerting for ML pipelines and deployed models. About working for us Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern More ❯
Bristol, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom Hybrid / WFH Options
Hargreaves Lansdown PLC
enjoy working in a product and client value driven environment. Collaborating closely with Product Managers and business stakeholders Strong understanding of full stack engineering best practices including CICD and Observability Acted as a strong partner to multiple business areas to deliver on key priorities with a one-team mindset Strong people focus - you prioritise your team's L&D, understand More ❯
Bristol, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom Hybrid / WFH Options
Lloyds Bank plc
production environments. CI/CD with Cloud Build: A good understanding of automated test, artifact build, and deployment to artifact registry. Containerisation: A solid understanding of Docker image creation Observability: Logging, monitoring, and alerting for ML pipelines and deployed models. About working for us Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern More ❯
F# are welcome) Proven track record of building and scaling distributed backend systems Solid understanding of infrastructure-as-code and cloud orchestration (AWS, Terraform, Docker) Familiarity with queue management, observability tooling, and shipping in fast-paced environments Awareness of GenAI and prompt engineering, or a keen interest to develop expertise in this area A self-starter attitude, with a strong More ❯
Gloucester, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom Hybrid / WFH Options
Howden Group
experience meeting relevant standards. Experience with Test-driven Development and a strong commitment to high quality, maintainable and easy to understand code. Strong understanding of security. Experience of using observability, monitoring tools, and gathering data insights. You have a detailed exposure to Azure cloud technologies. A strong communicator and facilitator. An experimental and scientific mindset leading to data-led decision More ❯
Azure DevOps), and front-end build tools (Webpack, Vite, or similar). Desirable Skills: Experience with Storybook, PWA, or front-end performance profiling. Understanding of front-end security and observability tools (e.g. Application Insights). If you have the relevant skills for this role and are ready for the challenge, then please send your CV to danielsumpter@spectrumit.co.uk More ❯
Azure DevOps), and front-end build tools (Webpack, Vite, or similar). Desirable Skills: Experience with Storybook, PWA, or front-end performance profiling. Understanding of front-end security and observability tools (e.g. Application Insights). If you have the relevant skills for this role and are ready for the challenge, then please send your CV to Spectrum IT Recruitment (South More ❯
make technical decisions and help shape how platform engineering is done as the team continues to scale. Tech stack AWS (Core services - EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, etc.) Monitoring and Observability Grafana, Prometheus Kubernetes (building and managing production clusters) Terraform (IaC provisioning) Python, Bash or Go (scripting, automation) GitHub Actions (CI/CD pipelines) What Theyre Looking For Experience in AWS … cloud infrastructure (ideally in a regulated or high-traffic environment) Previous experience working with Monitoring and Observability Tools Hands-on Kubernetes know-how, specifically with EKS. Solid IaC experience with Terraform. Experience with containerisation (Docker, Helm) and CI/CD (GitHub Actions or similar) Solid scripting/Automation experience with Python, Bash or Go A good communicator who enjoys working More ❯
Design schemas and pipelines across Postgres and MongoDB Run CI and CD, improve build times, handle deployments and rollbacks Collaborate with data and ML to productionise models Instrument for observability and own incidents end to end What you will bring 1+ year engineering with strong Python in production Hands on Elasticsearch experience Solid SQL plus practical MongoDB CI and CD More ❯
Leading and scaling a technically advanced team responsible for building and productionising a mission-critical backend platform. Architecting and maintaining high-availability, data-intensive systems across AWS with strong observability and monitoring foundations. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to integrate APIs and services, maintaining clean architecture principles. Driving technical quality through mentorship, test-driven development, and modern CI/CD More ❯
Leading and scaling a technically advanced team responsible for building and productionising a mission-critical backend platform. Architecting and maintaining high-availability, data-intensive systems across AWS with strong observability and monitoring foundations. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to integrate APIs and services, maintaining clean architecture principles. Driving technical quality through mentorship, test-driven development, and modern CI/CD More ❯
and scalability across cloud and on-prem systems Automate toil, reduce alert fatigue, and evolve monitoring capabilities Build and refine CI/CD pipelines to enable seamless delivery Strengthen observability and proactively prevent issues before they impact users Evaluate cutting-edge tools, frameworks, and cloud solutions to keep us ahead of the curve Expand your expertise across diverse technical domains … EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS) Bonus points if you have: Experience coding in Python, Java, or Go Knowledge of cross-domain technologies or service management environments Hands-on experience applying observability patterns and building availability metrics Why You’ll Love Working Here: 8% employer pension contribution — invest confidently in your future Private medical healthcare (including dental & optical) for you and your More ❯
and scalability across cloud and on-prem systems Automate toil, reduce alert fatigue, and evolve monitoring capabilities Build and refine CI/CD pipelines to enable seamless delivery Strengthen observability and proactively prevent issues before they impact users Evaluate cutting-edge tools, frameworks, and cloud solutions to keep us ahead of the curve Expand your expertise across diverse technical domains … EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS) Bonus points if you have: Experience coding in Python, Java, or Go Knowledge of cross-domain technologies or service management environments Hands-on experience applying observability patterns and building availability metrics Why You ll Love Working Here: 8% employer pension contribution invest confidently in your future Private medical healthcare (including dental & optical) for you and your More ❯
and scalability across cloud and on-prem systems Automate toil, reduce alert fatigue, and evolve monitoring capabilities Build and refine CI/CD pipelines to enable seamless delivery Strengthen observability and proactively prevent issues before they impact users Evaluate cutting-edge tools, frameworks, and cloud solutions to keep us ahead of the curve Expand your expertise across diverse technical domains … EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS) Bonus points if you have: Experience coding in Python, Java, or Go Knowledge of cross-domain technologies or service management environments Hands-on experience applying observability patterns and building availability metrics Why You'll Love Working Here: 8% employer pension contribution — invest confidently in your future Private medical healthcare (including dental & optical) for you and your More ❯
Proven DevOps experience in Azure environments. Strong knowledge of Azure architecture (App Services, Functions, Key Vault, etc.). Familiarity with Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, and KQL for observability and diagnostics. Experience with IaC, monitoring tools (App Insights, Log Analytics), and automation. Familiarity with .NET Core, React, or modern software delivery pipelines. Passion for reliability, continuous improvement, and secure … Terraform for Azure resource management. Practical knowledge of containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Azure Container Apps, or Kubernetes). Familiarity with Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, and KQL for observability and diagnostics. Strong focus on automation, continuous improvement, and service reliability. Understanding of DevSecOps principles and secure cloud deployment practices. If you have the relevant skills for this role and More ❯