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.
- 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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