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Senior Cloud Platform Engineer (observability)
LondonSource: WhatJobs
£90,000–£130,000
Contract Inside IR35
Hybrid (3 days onsite in London)
We're looking for a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to take ownership of building and evolving observability capabilities across a large-scale AWS platform. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on designing telemetry pipelines, improving platform visibility, and enabling engineering teams to operate highly reliable Kubernetes-based services.
What we're looking for:
Strong AWS experience, particularly with cloud-native infrastructure
Hands-on Kubernetes/EKS administration in production environments
Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
Observability tooling including OpenTelemetry, Prometheus and Grafana
Experience building monitoring, logging and distributed tracing solutions
Strong Linux and networking knowledge
CI/CD, automation and scripting (Python or Bash)
Experience working in high-availability, mission-critical production environments
You’ll be responsible for:
Building and enhancing cloud observability platforms
Instrumenting applications and infrastructure with metrics, logs and tracesCreating dashboards, alerts and SLO-driven monitoring
Improving platform reliability, automation and operational excellence
Working closely with platform and software engineering teams to support production systems
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