Lead Observability and Data Architect/Engineer (SC/DV Cleared)

We are hiring for Lead Observability andamp; Data Architect/Engineer (SC/DV Cleared) Location: Hybrid - London/Reading/Birmingham/Manchester/Glasgow We are seeking an Enterprise Platform Architect or Senior Data Engineer to design and scale national-critical monitoring fabrics and data hubs. Whether your background is rooted in core Observability platforms (Opensearch/Elastic/Splunk/OpenTelemetry) or high-scale Data Engineering (Kafka, Python, Airflow, OpenSearch/Lucene), your core mission is the same: transforming billions of raw event logs into actionable, secure streaming telemetry. Should be able to build high-performance data pipelines to ingest, parse, and structure massive event telemetry across hybrid-cloud and air-gapped environments. Manage large-scale cluster deployments, designing optimized indexing, data life cycle policies, and schema mapping (such as ECS). Expertise in Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Splunk, or Solr. Strong proficiency in building visualization dashboards (Kibana, Grafana) and managing telemetry collectors (OpenTelemetry/OTel, Beats, Prometheus). Experience in designing and scaling data pipelines for high-velocity telemetry. Essential expertise in Apache Kafka, Logstash, or streaming/orchestration frameworks (Airflow, Vector, Debezium). Hands-on experience architecting scalable, containerized solutions using Kubernetes (K8s), Docker, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/Ansible). Search andamp; Indexing Engine Depth: Prior architecture experience ..... full job details .....