Job Description
Observability Consultant(SC Cleared)
Location: Hatfield (Hybrid)
Contract: ASAP - upto 6 months
Clearance: Active SC Clearance required
Rate: £550/day (Inside IR35) via Umb
Overview
We are seeking an experienced SC Cleared Observability Consultant to join a specialist practice delivering high-impact advisory, design, and implementation services.
This role requires deep expertise across modern observability platforms and open-source technologies, with a strong focus on enabling organisations to mature their observability capabilities and align them to broader business and IT strategies.
You will play a key role in shaping observability roadmaps, designing scalable architectures, and delivering enterprise-grade implementations.
Key Responsibilities
Observability Strategy & Advisory
* Lead discovery workshops to assess observability maturity and define strategic roadmaps
* Evaluate existing monitoring landscapes and recommend tooling strategies
* Translate business and technical requirements into actionable observability use cases
* Provide guidance on best practices including OpenTelemetry, SRE principles, and telemetry management
Architecture & Solution Design
* Design end-to-end observability solutions across logs, metrics, traces, and user experience
* Develop distributed tracing and APM strategies
* Define telemetry data pipelines and instrumentation approaches
* Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and cost-efficient
Tooling Implementation
* Deploy and configure observability platforms (e.g. Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana, Elastic, Cribl)
* Implement OpenTelemetry collectors, agents, and SDKs
* Build dashboards, alerts, and automation workflows
* Integrate observability platforms with ITSM, AIOps, and event management tools
Troubleshooting & Performance Engineering
* Analyse and resolve application, infrastructure, and network performance issues
* Lead root cause analysis and optimisation initiatives
* Enable proactive monitoring through anomaly detection and alert tuning
Skills & Experience Required
* Active SC Clearance
* Strong expertise in observability frameworks and telemetry pipelines
* Deep understanding of observability pillars: metrics, logs, traces, and user experience
* Hands-on experience with at least two enterprise tools (e.g. Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana, Cribl)
* Strong knowledge of observability platform architecture and cloud integrations
* Experience with APIs, tagging strategies, and problem detection workflows
* Scripting and automation skills (Python, Bash, Terraform, Ansible)
* Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills
* Proven background in enterprise consulting, design, and implementation (10+ years)
Desirable Skills
* Relevant certifications in observability platforms or OpenTelemetry/Prometheus
* Experience with DevOps and platform engineering practices (CI/CD, Git, automation)
* Knowledge of cloud-native observability (AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Prometheus, eBPF)
* Understanding of networking protocols (Syslog, SNMP, OTLP)
* Experience integrating observability with ITSM and alerting platforms
* Cloud or CNCF certifications
Apply Now
If you are an experienced Observability Consultant looking to work on enterprise-scale environments and cutting-edge technologies, we’d love to hear from you.