Observability Engineer
About The Position
We're looking for an Observability Engineer to join our Digital, Data and Technology team to help us transform how we monitor and manage our services. In this pivotal role, you'll design and implement observability solutions that provide real-time insight into the health, performance, and reliability of Anglian Water's digital platforms and products. Your work will enable proactive incident detection, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement, embedding observability as a core engineering discipline across our organisation.
Requirements
- Proven experience in observability, monitoring, or telemetry engineering.
- Hands-on experience with observability tools and telemetry systems.
- Strong scripting and automation skills (e.g., Python, Bash).
- Background in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure operations.
- Understanding of distributed systems and cloud-native architectures.
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD practices.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
- Commitment to service reliability and operational excellence.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement observability solutions (logs, metrics, traces) using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic Stack, Azure Monitor, Dynatrace.
- Build dashboards, alerts, and visualisations aligned to user and business needs.
- Integrate observability tooling into CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code.
- Standardise tooling across teams and support automation of alert responses and root cause analysis.
- Collaborate with development, operations, and platform teams to define SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
- Conduct root cause analysis and post-incident reviews to drive improvements.
- Promote observability best practices and coach teams on interpreting telemetry data.
Benefits
- Double Matched Pension Scheme - matches your contributions up to 6% (up to 18% combined)
- Car Allowance
- 26 Days Annual Leave
- Personal private health care
- Annual bonus scheme
- Opportunity to volunteer and do unpaid work in the community
- Life Cover at 8x your salary
- Personal Accident cover - up to 5x your salary
- Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle
- Free parking at all offices, sites, and leisure parks
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Industry
Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
11-50 employees
