Observability Engineer

Location: London Area, United Kingdom (Hybrid)

Company

Recruitment support for a leading quantitative technology firm with a highly technical engineering environment.

What you will do

• Build scalable telemetry pipelines for large-scale observability platforms.
• Develop OpenTelemetry collectors, SDKs, and exporters.
• Improve Kubernetes observability and resilience.
• Work with Platform Engineering teams to drive automation and reliability.
• Help shape the future of OpenTelemetry across the engineering environment.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry and Kubernetes.
• Experience with AWS and observability platforms such as Datadog, New Relic, or Dynatrace.
• Experience with Terraform, Helm, or ArgoCD.
• Proficiency in Go or Python.
• Background in SRE or Platform Engineering.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent position within a Platform Engineering team.
• Hybrid work arrangement in the London area.
• Hands-on opportunity to build observability platforms rather than only consume existing tooling.