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# Performance and Monitoring Engineer

- **Company:** Solus Accident Repair Centres
- **Location:** Stansted Mountfitchet, UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Performance Management, Cloud Computing, Databases, Monitoring of Systems, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Log Analysis, Networking Basics, Platform as a Service (PAAS), Windows PowerShell, Cloud Services, Kusto Query Language, Azure Automation, Grafana, Data Analytics, Graphql
- **Published:** August 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.totaljobs.com/job/performance-engineer/solus-accident-repair-centres-job107802440

## About the Role

* Strong experience with monitoring and observability tools (LogicMonitor, Azure Monitor, App Insights, Log Analytics, Defender for Cloud)
 * Excellent understanding of cloud performance, IaaS/PaaS, networking fundamentals, API performance and capacity modelling
 * Skilled in dashboards, log queries (KQL), custom metrics and performance analysis
 * Ability to diagnose complex issues across infrastructure, networks, applications or databases
 * Confident scripting and automation skills (PowerShell, Azure Automation, Graph API)
 * Clear communicator who can simplify technical detail for both technical and non-technical teams, * Microsoft certifications (AZ-900, AZ-104, AZ-305, AZ-500) or similar
 * Experience with LogicMonitor admin, Grafana or other observability tools
 * Familiarity with SRE concepts (SLIs, SLOs, error budgets)
 * Understanding of ITIL processes

## Description

Solus, part of the Aviva family, is growing our Technology capability and we're looking for a talented Performance and Monitoring Engineer to help us strengthen the stability, reliability and performance of our systems.

If you're passionate about monitoring, observability and using data to proactively improve service health, this is a great opportunity to make a real impact across a large, modern technology estate.

Responsibilities

You'll be our subject matter expert for monitoring and performance, responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining the tools and dashboards that give us real-time visibility of our infrastructure, applications and cloud services.

Your focus will include:

 * Owning and optimising platforms such as LogicMonitor, Azure Monitor, App Insights and Log Analytics
 * Building meaningful dashboards, alerts, telemetry pipelines and performance insights
 * Identifying risks, trends and early indicators to prevent incidents before they happen
 * Carrying out deep-dive investigations into performance issues and recommending improvements
 * Working with Platform, Operations, Security and Product teams to ensure systems are reliable, available and scalable
 * Automating responses and integrations to improve speed, accuracy and consistency
 * Supporting major changes, deployments and post-incident reviews with data-driven evidence


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