Observability Engineer

Salary: £44,000 - 84,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong technical knowledge across infrastructure, networks and support platforms.
• Proven experience designing, implementing and managing observability frameworks in complex enterprise environments.
• Understanding of telemetry principles, including metrics, logs and traces.
• Experience across hybrid environments, including VMware, Hyper-V, on-premises infrastructure, Azure, Veeam and dHCI platforms.
• Experience developing observability strategies, managing platforms and tools, and delivering dashboards, reporting and actionable insights.
• Ability to use data to drive continuous improvement, support service transitions and provide technical leadership.
• Experience enhancing observability maturity across an organisation.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement and continuously improve our observability capability across infrastructure, networks, platforms and applications.
• Ensure our services are measurable, visible and proactively managed through effective telemetry, monitoring, alerting and reporting.
• Work closely with Service Delivery and technical teams to embed observability best practices into existing and new services.
• Provide actionable insights that improve performance, resilience and availability.
• Own our observability toolset.
• Develop meaningful dashboards and alerting strategies.
• Support incident resolution.
• Drive continuous improvement through data-led analysis and governance.
• Act as our observability subject matter expert.
• Help reduce service disruption and improve operational efficiency.

Technologies:

• Azure
• Hyper-V
• Support
• VMware
• Veeam
• Cloud

More:

We are one of the UKs leading port and logistics companies, with substantial capital investment planned over the next 5 years as we work towards becoming the UKs leading port operator. We have ambitious growth and transformation plans for the supply chain, alongside investments in decarbonising our operations and achieving Net Zero Port Operations by 2040. We offer a competitive salary, 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays, up to 10% matched contribution pension, and a flexible benefits package including a salary sacrifice car scheme, healthcare cash plans, Cycle2Work Scheme, Critical Illness insurance, Gym Membership Scheme and retail vouchers. We also support learning and personal development, with over 50,000 hours of training delivered last year, and provide employee wellbeing support through our Employee Assistance Programme.

last updated 31 week of 2026