Performance & Observability Engineer

Job summary

The Performance & Observability Engineer ensures system reliability, scalability, and visibility across the technology stack, focusing on performance insights, real-time issue detection, and proactive optimization.

Qualifications

• Experience with Observability and APM Tools
• Experience with KQL
• Performance and Load Testing
• Cloud and Infrastructure Monitoring
• Knowledge of Log Aggregation and Analysis
• Automation and Scripting skills
• Incident Response and ITSM experience
• Understanding of technology stack applications
• Desirable DevOps experience
• Desirable Nexthink experience

Responsibilities

• Analyse application and infrastructure performance
• Develop performance benchmarks and SLIs
• Collaborate with SRE and DevOps for CI/CD optimization
• Implement caching and query optimization
• Design observability frameworks for metrics and logs
• Instrument services for improved visibility
• Enable distributed tracing for performance debugging
• Standardise logging and telemetry collection
• Define best practices for monitoring consistency
• Transition to proactive insights with AI-driven detection
• Ensure observability across all system components
• Implement SLIs, SLOs, and Error Budgets
• Automate root cause analysis and incident detection
• Reduce MTTD and MTTR through improved observability
• Integrate monitoring tools with incident response platforms
• Develop self-healing mechanisms to reduce toil
• Improve alerting strategies to reduce false positives
• Define governance models for observability adoption
• Ensure log retention and compliance with standards
• Develop dashboards for reliability and performance trends

Skills

Relocation