Principal SRE Engineer / Grafana Specialist - (Outside IR35)

Lead SRE / Observability Engineering Lead - (Outside IR35 Contract / Remote)Location: Bristol / London HQ - Largely Remote (Occasional Travel)Day Rate: Outside IR35 - £700 p/dDuration: 3-6 Months Initial - with intention to extendPayment Terms: MonthlyOur client is a FTSE100 Wealth/Asset Management firm seeking to engage a Lead SRE Engineer (Observability SME) to support the implementation and instrumentation of their new Observability solution.This role will be critical in delivering against our Digital OKRs by embedding observability best practices, frameworks, and tooling across digital platforms and engineering teams.Key Responsibilities:Strategy and Roadmap: Define and drive the observability roadmap in alignment with business priorities and digital platform objectives. Champion observability-by-design standards across the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).Reliability and Performance: Establish and manage SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to track and improve system reliability. Support capacity and availability planning through real-time telemetry and predictive analytics.Instrumentation and Runbooks: Design and implement observability runbooks covering metrics, logs, traces, synthetics, and customer journey monitoring. Set standards for instrumentation, dashboards, alerting, and enable teams to self-serve their system metrics and traces.Implementation and Enablement: Assist digital engineering teams in implementing synthetic monitoring, health checks, observable CI/CD ..... full job details .....