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# Senior Observability Engineer, Hybrid

- **Company:** Sanderson Recruitment Plc
- **Location:** Pampisford, United Kingdom
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £144,000 - £150,000
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** DevOps, Distributed Systems, Intrusion Detection and Prevention, Runbook, Grafana, Splunk, Dynatrace
- **Published:** November 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5961625733

## About the Role

* Strong hands-on Splunk experience (essential)
 * Experience with Dynatrace and/or Grafana
 * Experience in production monitoring, observability, and incident management
 * Experience troubleshooting distributed systems and analyzing performance
 * Experience correlating logs, metrics, and traces
 * Experience improving application instrumentation with engineering teams
 * Proven experience delivering measurable improvements in observability, reliability, and operational resilience

## Description

* Review existing monitoring, telemetry, and alerting capabilities
 * Improve visibility across critical customer journeys and dependencies
 * Implement meaningful service-health metrics and actionable alerts
 * Reduce incident detection and resolution times
 * Develop observability standards, runbooks, and best practices

Technologies:

 * Dynatrace
 * Grafana
 * Incident Management
 * Support
 * Splunk
 * DevOps, Were seeking a hands-on Observability Engineer / SRE Consultant to improve production monitoring, incident detection, and root-cause analysis across critical services. This is a six-month initial contract, paying £600-£625 per day inside IR35, with two days per week onsite in Cambridgeshire. Respect and equality are core values to us. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and perspectives, and our people work in partnership to deliver resourcing solutions for our clients. We can provide support or adjustments during the recruitment process.