Senior Site Reliability Engineer - OpenTelemetry

Job summary

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Observability role is dedicated to implementing and expanding a modern observability platform utilizing OpenTelemetry and OpenSearch, aimed at enhancing monitoring and operational stability for critical trading systems. Responsibilities include defining observability standards, developing automation tools, and integrating frameworks with enterprise monitoring platforms like Geneos, while applying Site Reliability Engineering principles to improve incident detection and reduce outages.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as Senior SRE or Observability Engineer implementing enterprise-scale observability solutions
• Strong expertise in OpenTelemetry including instrumentation and telemetry pipelines
• In-depth knowledge of OpenSearch for architecture, data indexing, optimisation and analytics
• Experience developing dashboards and alerts using Grafana
• Familiarity with enterprise monitoring tools such as Geneos and related observability technologies
• Practical understanding of Site Reliability Engineering practices and automation approaches
• Background in high-availability or mission-critical environments; financial services experience is highly desirable

Responsibilities

• Gather requirements and perform analysis of existing monitoring and observability platforms
• Define observability standards, telemetry strategies and alerting frameworks
• Implement OpenTelemetry-based instrumentation and OpenSearch solutions across applications and infrastructure
• Design dashboards, analytics and reporting to improve transparency and operational efficiency
• Develop automation tools and processes to enhance observability and reduce manual overhead
• Integrate observability frameworks with enterprise monitoring platforms such as Geneos
• Provide documentation and operational handover to ensure long-term sustainability
• Apply Site Reliability Engineering principles to drive stability, scalability and incident reduction

Skills

Relocation