Lead Observability Engineer

Location: London, onsite 3 days per week (Sheffield as an alternative)Rate: £tbd/day inside IR35Duration: 6 months+Are you a Senior Observability Engineer/SRE Lead, with demonstrable experience of assessing and defining observability and monitoring roadmaps within enterprise scale environments? If so, apply now for this new contract opportunity.The Lead Observability Engineer/SRE Lead will be required to assess a complex hybrid estate, understand how services, platforms, infrastructure and networks should be monitored, and work across multiple internal teams, partners and suppliers to build a consolidated view of existing telemetry, monitoring and alerting capabilities.As well as short term tactical objectives, the role will also be focussed on longer term strategic ones.Responsibilities of the Lead Observability Engineer/SRE Lead will be to:Discover and document existing telemetry sources, monitoring tools, dashboards and ownershipWork with technical teams and suppliers to gain access to telemetryDeliver meaningful dashboards and service health viewsIdentify gaps in telemetry, monitoring and alerting coverage and implement pragmatic improvementsDefine health indicators for critical business journeysIntroduce modern observability practices where practical, including SLIs, SLOs and a roadmap towards burn-rate alertingDevelop a roadmap for OpenTelemetry adoptionAssess options for a centralised telemetry platform, including Grafana CloudEvaluate tooling rationalisation ..... full job details .....