Observability/Monitoring & Telemetry Consultant
hace 2 días
Bristol
Observability/Monitoring & Telemetry Consultant Location: Bristol (Hybrid - 3 days in office) Employer: Specialist Data & Observability Consultancy This consultancy helps organisations turn high-volume, noisy telemetry and log data into clear, decision-ready insight - feeding SIEM platforms, observability stacks, and data lakes. You'll sit at the intersection of discovery, design, delivery, and operational excellence, helping clients solve real problems around data quality, detection efficacy, and operational resilience. What You'll Do • Data sources (platforms, agents, syslog, APIs, cloud-native feeds)., • Event volumes, constraints, ownership, governance, and data lineage., • A clear view of current state & target state, • A roadmap of recommended changes, • A sprint backlog with a clear definition of done, • Decision-grade outputs clients can act on immediately, • Cost vs detection fidelity, • Operational overhead vs automation opportunities, • Log/metric/tracing design choices, • Risk, resilience & failure modes in data flows, • Collection: agents, collectors, syslog, cloud-native logs, APIs, • Routing: multi-destination delivery, buffering, retries, backpressure handling, • Transformation: parsing, enrichment, filtering, PII masking/redaction, • Standardisation: OpenTelemetry conventions; OCSF mapping where relevant You help shape: • Reusable design patterns, • Deployment artefacts (config packs, templates, patterns), • Standardised service definitions that the team can use across clients, • Onboarding patterns, • Runbooks, health checks, platform boundaries, • Minimum viable operate checklists What You Need Choose Your Primary Lens (you only need one) A) Security/SIEM Lens You may have experience with: • SIEM concepts and event pipelines, • Telemetry-to-use-case mapping for security detections, • Threat modelling and detection life cycle management, • Normalisation approaches including OCSF, • Security engineers, • Detection engineers, • SIEM consultants You might bring experience in: • Service decomposition and architecture thinking, • Metrics, logs, tracing and correlation, • SLIs/SLOs and reliability engineering principles, • Incident/problem root-cause thinking, • OpenTelemetry-first design approaches, • Observability engineers, • SREs/Reliability engineers, • Ability to run workshops confidently and extract the right information, • Strong documentation & communication skills, • An interest in data quality, data flow design, and outcomes over technology, • Proper consulting: You lead real discovery, not just implement tickets., • Variety: Work across multiple platforms, environments, and client types., • High impact: Your designs directly reduce cost, risk, and operational headaches., • Modern tech: Heavy focus on OpenTelemetry, SIEM modernisation, cloud-native logs, and structured pipelines., • Intellectual challenge: This role blends strategy, design, engineering, and operational thinking - perfect for people who enjoy solving complex problems. 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. If you need any help or adjustments during the recruitment process for any reason, please let us know when you apply or talk to the recruiters directly so we can support you.