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Senior Observability Engineer, Hybrid

  • Posted November 4, 2026
  • £600 - £625 per day
  • Cambridge, Hybrid
  • Contract

Senior Observability Engineer / SRE Consultant

  • £600-£625 per day
  • Inside IR35
  • 6-month initial term
  • 2 days per week onsite in Cambridgeshire

We’re seeking a hands-on Observability Engineer / SRE Consultant to improve production monitoring, incident detection, and root-cause analysis across critical services.

Key Skills

  • Strong hands-on Splunk experience (essential)
  • Experience with Dynatrace and/or Grafana
  • Production monitoring, observability and incident management
  • Distributed systems troubleshooting and performance analysis
  • Log, metric and trace correlation
  • Improving application instrumentation with engineering teams

Responsibilities

  • Review existing monitoring, telemetry and alerting capabilities
  • Improve visibility across critical customer journeys and dependencies
  • Implement meaningful service-health metrics and actionable alerts
  • Reduce incident detection and resolution times
  • Develop observability standards, runbooks and best practices

Ideal for a contractor with proven experience delivering measurable improvements in observability, reliability and operational resilience.

Reasonable Adjustments:

Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients.

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