Telemetry and Observability Engineer x 2, UK (London/hybrid) or Bucharest/Hybrid

Telemetry and Observability Engineer x 2, UK (London/hybrid) or Bucharest/Hybrid

FT Select is a niche technology search and selection company, specialising in recruiting elite Sales Executives and high-end Technology Specialists for high-growth tech businesses.

We are recruiting for an Observability Engineer. This is a 6+ month contract with a leading systems integrator as part of a dedicated team, offering the chance to work alongside seasoned engineers and deploy cutting-edge network technologies at scale.

Observability Engineer to support the Network Engineering function. This role is pivotal to defining and delivering an observability strategy—making our systems measurable, reliable, and continually improving. You’ll operate at the intersection of software engineering, SRE, and platform operations, enabling teams to turn telemetry into actionable insight and to maximise the value of the observability platforms.

Key Responsibilities
• Design and operate scalable telemetry pipelines for metrics, logs, traces, and events across distributed systems.
• Define and maintain standards for instrumentation, NMS tooling, dashboards, alerting, and SLIs/SLOs, partnering with product and platform teams.
• Champion best practices in monitoring, incident response, and post incident learning across engineering teams.
• Integrate and optimise observability tools (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Kafka, Cribl, ClickHouse, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Elastic, Loki) within the NPS ecosystem.
• Embed observability in the SDLC, including CI/CD guardrails, pre /post deployment health checks, and automated validations.
• Drive adoption through enablement, documentation, and training that upskills engineers and reduces operational toil.
• Continuously evaluate emerging practices and technologies to evolve our capabilities and reduce time to detect/resolve.

Required Skills & Experience
• Proven success in observability, SRE, or platform engineering within complex, distributed environments.
• Strong hands on expertise with telemetry and analytics tooling (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Kafka, Cribl, ClickHouse, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Elastic, Loki).
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (Python, Go, or Java) and infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).
• Deep understanding of cloud native architectures (Kubernetes, micro-services, service meshes).
• Experience defining and managing SLIs/SLOs and alerting strategies that minimise noise and drive action.
• Demonstrated strength in technical design reviews, code reviews, architecture runway planning, and pragmatic decision making.
• Hands on design and validation of API integrations, secure token flows, context propagation mechanisms (MCP), and agent to agent (A2A) orchestration.

Desirable
• Background in regulated or financial services environments.
• Contributions to open source observability projects or communities.

Contract length: 6 months +
Rate: Competitive, Inside IR35