Engineering Lead
21 days ago
London
NEW CONTRACT ROLE - ENGINEERING LEAD (OBSERVABILITY / SRE) | ASAP START | UK (Remote / Hybrid) | 6-Month Contract | Possible Extension | London, Manchester, Birmingham or Edinburgh THE OPPORTUNITY We're looking for an experienced Engineering Lead to support a critical enterprise observability and operational resilience programme. This role is focused on leading the uplift of monitoring, alerting, and end-to-end service visibility across business-critical applications. It's ideal for a senior, hands-on engineering lead with deep Prometheus and Grafana expertise, capable of guiding best practices across SRE, platform, and application teams. THE ROLE • Lead collaboration with Application Stewards and Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) to confirm critical services and assets in scope for monitoring verification and uplift, • Work with EMAS to analyse Prometheus scrape coverage, exporter deployment, and Grafana dashboard availability for critical applications, • Drive improvements across monitoring configuration, alert quality, metrics, dashboards, KPIs, SLIs, and SLOs, • Lead the optimisation of alerting to ensure alerts are reliable, actionable, and noise-optimised, applying Alertmanager best practices, • Oversee delivery of automated end-to-end business flow visibility through Grafana service maps, dependency visualisation, and topology integrations, • Review observability roles and responsibilities and recommend improvements aligned to Operational Resilience standards, • Champion automation and API-driven approaches for dashboard provisioning, alert management, and data ingestion Strong hands-on and leadership experience with: Prometheus - instrumentation strategy, exporters, service discovery, custom metrics, PromQL, recording rules, alerting rules, HA architectures (Thanos, Cortex, Mimir) Grafana - dashboard and panel design, alerting and routing, synthetic monitoring, Loki, real user monitoring (e.g. Grafana Faro) Observability Ecosystem - integration of metrics, logs, and traces (Loki, Tempo, OpenTelemetry), APIs and automation PROFILE • Proven experience as a Senior Engineer, Technical Lead, or Engineering Lead within SRE, Observability, DevOps, or Platform Engineering, • Comfortable leading technical direction while remaining hands-on, • Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, • Experience operating in complex, enterprise-scale or regulated environments Engineering Lead, Observability Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, SRE, Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, PromQL, Monitoring, Operational Resilience, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Metrics, Logging, Tracing, OpenTelemetry, Loki, Tempo, Thanos, Cortex, Mimir