Observability Consultant
hace 1 día
Hatfield
Observability Consultant(SC Cleared) Location: Hatfield (Hybrid) Contract: ASAP - upto 6 months Clearance: Active SC Clearance required Rate: £550/day (Inside IR35) via Umb Overview We are seeking an experienced SC Cleared Observability Consultant to join a specialist practice delivering high-impact advisory, design, and implementation services. This role requires deep expertise across modern observability platforms and open-source technologies, with a strong focus on enabling organisations to mature their observability capabilities and align them to broader business and IT strategies. You will play a key role in shaping observability roadmaps, designing scalable architectures, and delivering enterprise-grade implementations. Key Responsibilities Observability Strategy & Advisory • Lead discovery workshops to assess observability maturity and define strategic roadmaps, • Evaluate existing monitoring landscapes and recommend tooling strategies, • Translate business and technical requirements into actionable observability use cases, • Design end-to-end observability solutions across logs, metrics, traces, and user experience, • Develop distributed tracing and APM strategies, • Define telemetry data pipelines and instrumentation approaches, • Deploy and configure observability platforms (e.g. Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana, Elastic, Cribl), • Implement OpenTelemetry collectors, agents, and SDKs, • Build dashboards, alerts, and automation workflows, • Analyse and resolve application, infrastructure, and network performance issues, • Lead root cause analysis and optimisation initiatives, • Enable proactive monitoring through anomaly detection and alert tuning Skills & Experience Required • Active SC Clearance, • Strong expertise in observability frameworks and telemetry pipelines, • Deep understanding of observability pillars: metrics, logs, traces, and user experience, • Hands-on experience with at least two enterprise tools (e.g. Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana, Cribl), • Strong knowledge of observability platform architecture and cloud integrations, • Experience with APIs, tagging strategies, and problem detection workflows, • Scripting and automation skills (Python, Bash, Terraform, Ansible), • Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills, • Proven background in enterprise consulting, design, and implementation (10+ years) Desirable Skills • Relevant certifications in observability platforms or OpenTelemetry/Prometheus, • Experience with DevOps and platform engineering practices (CI/CD, Git, automation), • Knowledge of cloud-native observability (AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Prometheus, eBPF), • Understanding of networking protocols (Syslog, SNMP, OTLP), • Experience integrating observability with ITSM and alerting platforms, • Cloud or CNCF certifications Apply Now If you are an experienced Observability Consultant looking to work on enterprise-scale environments and cutting-edge technologies, we’d love to hear from you.