Observability SME | 1 year | London, UK (Hybrid - 3 days/week in office)

Observability SME | 1 year | London, UK (Hybrid - 3 days/week in office) Role Overview We''re recruiting for an experienced Observability SME to define, implement, and govern enterprise-wide observability capabilities for cloud-native and distributed applications running on Microsoft Azure, for a leading organisation. The role requires establishing observability standards, ensuring end-to-end visibility across business-critical platforms, and enabling proactive monitoring, faster incident resolution, and improved platform reliability through modern observability practices - with deep expertise in Grafana, OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, SRE, event-driven architecture, and Azure Integration Services. Key Responsibilities Define and implement enterprise observability strategies, standards, and governance frameworks Design and manage observability solutions covering metrics, logs, traces, and application telemetry Establish monitoring, alerting, and diagnostics best practices across cloud-native platforms and microservices Design and implement distributed tracing solutions using OpenTelemetry and modern observability tools Develop and maintain Grafana dashboards for engineering, operations, business, and leadership stakeholders Monitor platform performance, availability, reliability, and service health across Azure services Define Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and operational KPIs Collaborate with development, platform engineering, and ..... full job details .....