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Lead Observability Engineer

Lead Observability Engineer

On site

London, United kingdom

£ 500 /day

Senior

Freelance

22-12-2025

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Skills

Go Splunk Monitoring AWS Recruitment Terraform Prometheus Grafana

Job Specifications

Our clint is looking for a couple of Lead Observability Engineers to join their team on a five month initial contract, with six monthly extension to follow on a excepted 2 year project. This role is remote with occasional travel to London. This role is Inside IR35.

What you'll do
* Set the basic approach for logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, and alerts.
* Help choose and set up the core monitoring and observability tools.
* Create simple templates so new services have monitoring from day one.
* Make sure alerts are useful and go to the right people, aligned with enterprise-wide setups.
* Keep data safe (making sure no sensitive info is in logs).
* Help colleagues use the tools and improve what they already have.
What you bring
* Strong experience with modern monitoring and logging platforms.
* You can set practical standards and keep things simple.
* Comfortable working with engineers and operations teams.
Key Technologies
AWS, Grafana, Prometheus, Alertmanager, Thanos, Splunk, Vector, Terraform

LA International is a HMG approved ICT Recruitment and Project Solutions Consultancy, operating globally from the largest single site in the UK as an IT Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency depending upon the precise nature of the work, for security cleared jobs or non-clearance vacancies, LA International welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds.

Award Winning LA International, winner of the Recruiter Awards for Excellence, Best IT Recruitment Company, Best Public Sector Recruitment Company and overall Gold Award winner, has now secured the most prestigious business award that any business can receive, The Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade, for the second consecutive period.

About the Company

LA International is a Digital and Technology Resourcing and Project Solutions organisation, with Enhanced Government Accreditation. Operating globally from the largest single-site facility in the UK. LA International is the UK’s number 1 and largest supplier of Security Cleared Digital and Technology resource to His Majesty’s Government. With a successful track record spanning over 40 years of delivering Resourcing and Project Solutions, we have been at the forefront of providing innovative Digital, Technology, Transform... Know more