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# DevOps Engineer

- **Company:** J&C Associates
- **Location:** London, UK (Remote available)
- **Salary:** £22,000.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), DevOps, Github, Nagios, Newrelic, Prometheus, Data Logging, Grafana, Terraform, Splunk
- **Published:** July 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www1.jobdiva.co.uk/portal/?a=34jdnwd4ls8uthmwrzi4o3humpp74fc3d5cx3iu8mtcrkknzjqz9d2mvwwdvi9j7.co.ukpid=0/jobs/11315831#/jobs/11315831

## About the Role

* Splunk
 * NewRelic
 * Prometheus
 * Terraform
 * Github
 * English language proficiency

Bonus Skills:

 * Grafana
 * Java programming language (for working on service instrumentation)
 * German language skills

Education:

 * BSc or comparable work experience

## Description

* Design, implement, and maintain integrating monitoring and alerting tools, leveraging existing tools and logging.
 * Monitoring is happening at all levels in the application stack. Expand existing automation tools to streamline onboarding.
 * Collaborate with various internal teams to provide the best service possible for our customers.
 * Evaluate new technologies to enhance the level of customer service.

Details:

 * Main task is the migration of alert definitions from splunk to newrelic or prometheus.
 * Alert definitions are currently available and defined as code.
 * As part of the task, the defined alerts need to be walked through with the service owning teams to determine whether they are still up-to-date and meaningful, and to determine whether they can be migrated to more efficient metric-based alerts (NewRelic, Prometheus) or more efficient Splunk queries. This may involve analyzing the available metrics in the Java code base.
 * As another part of the task, splunk dashboards and indexed fields definitions currently defined in a custom configuration-as-code format need to be migrated to terraform.


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