Telemetry SRE Engineer

Job description

Technical Skills Must have:

Must‑Have

Observability & Reliability Engineering

· Strong hands‑on experience across core observability pillars including metrics, traces, service health and distributed systems visibility

· Practical experience implementing OpenTelemetry across application, platform and infrastructure layers

· Ability to design, deploy and operate end‑to‑end observability pipelines (collector‑to‑backend, agent management, data flows, routing and filtering)

· Strong understanding of SLI/SLO frameworks, error budgets and reliability‑focused operating models

· Experience defining alerting strategy, tuning thresholds and reducing operational noise through effective signal engineering

Observability Platforms & Tooling

· Hands‑on expertise in one or more enterprise‑grade observability platforms (Dynatrace, Splunk Observability, Datadog or equivalent)

· Proficiency with Prometheus ecosystem components including Alertmanager

· Experience designing clear, insightful dashboards and visualisations using Grafana

· Strong troubleshooting capability using metrics, traces and dependency insights to diagnose performance and availability issues

Cloud & Platform Monitoring

· Strong technical experience with at least one major public cloud (AWS, Azure or GCP)

· Monitoring fundamentals across cloud‑native services including compute, storage, networking, load balancers and managed services

· Solid understanding of cloud networking constructs (VPC/VNet, subnets, routing, NAT, firewalls and security groups)

Containers & Kubernetes

· Working knowledge of Kubernetes objects (pods, services, deployments) and operational lifecycle

· Experience monitoring containerised/app‑modernisation workloads

· Basic experience with Helm or Kustomize for packaging, configuration and deployment

· Ability to troubleshoot application behaviour and platform-level issues within container environments

Programming & Automation

· Proficiency in one or more languages (Python, Go, Java) to support automation and tooling

· Experience writing automation scripts and utilities supporting observability and SRE practices

· Awareness of integrating observability checks within CI/CD pipelines

· Comfort with shell scripting for diagnostics and operational tasks

Data & Analytics

· Strong understanding of time‑series data and telemetry characteristics

· Hands‑on experience with PromQL, SignalFlow, Metrics Explorer or equivalent query languages

· Ability to analyse latency percentiles (p95/p99), error rates and throughput metrics

· Working knowledge of SQL for querying telemetry backends or data stores

Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

Newbury

Type of Contract

Full-time jobs

Published at

03-05-2026

Profession type

ICT

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English