Job Title: Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Lead – Observability
Location:
Stratford, London (Hybrid – 2 days per week onsite)
Contract Length:
6 months
Rate:
£450–£500 per day (Inside IR35)
Industry:
Financial Services
A leading Financial Services organisation in London is seeking a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Lead – Observability to join their team on a 6-month contract. This is a hybrid role requiring two days per week onsite at their Stratford, London offices. The role sits Inside IR35.
Key Responsibilities:
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Lead the SRE Observability team and champion observability practices across multiple product groups.
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Provide thought leadership from the Cognizant delivery team on all things SRE.
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Leverage hands-on experience with Datadog to implement and enhance observability capabilities.
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Guide and oversee the day-to-day operation and maintenance of observability tools.
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Partner directly with engineering teams to support delivery of observability backlogs.
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Collaborate with product teams to create monitoring and alerting blueprints, patterns, and automation.
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Capture, analyse, and report on performance and capacity metrics.
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Shape observability requirements with product teams for new and existing services.
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Design and deliver business-focused dashboards based on stakeholder needs.
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Drive the creation and QA of project-level Observability Plans.
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Input into and assure the quality of testing strategies and results.
Key Skills & Experience:
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Proven experience in an SRE role with a strong focus on Observability.
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Expert-level proficiency with DevOps tools including GitHub, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Nexus, CloudFormation/Terraform, and CodeQL.
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Extensive hands-on experience with observability tools – Datadog preferred.
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Deep understanding of AWS services such as EC2, ELB, ECS, S3, Config, CloudTrail, Lambda, EFS, and VPC.
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Strong scripting skills in Python and Shell.
Nice to Have:
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Experience with Docker or container-based systems.
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Familiarity with Chef.
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AWS certification.
Interested?
Apply now to be considered for this exciting contract opportunity, and play a key role in driving observability excellence within a major financial services organisation
