Job Title: Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Lead – Observability
Location: Stratford, London (Hybrid – 2 days per week onsite)
Contract Length: 6 months
Rate: £450–£500 per day (Inside IR35)
Industry: Financial Services
A leading Financial Services organisation in London is seeking a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Lead – Observability to join their team on a 6-month contract. This is a hybrid role requiring two days per week onsite at their Stratford, London offices. The role sits Inside IR35.
Key Responsibilities:
* Lead the SRE Observability team and champion observability practices across multiple product groups.
* Provide thought leadership from the Cognizant delivery team on all things SRE.
* Leverage hands-on experience with Datadog to implement and enhance observability capabilities.
* Guide and oversee the day-to-day operation and maintenance of observability tools.
* Partner directly with engineering teams to support delivery of observability backlogs.
* Collaborate with product teams to create monitoring and alerting blueprints, patterns, and automation.
* Capture, analyse, and report on performance and capacity metrics.
* Shape observability requirements with product teams for new and existing services.
* Design and deliver business-focused dashboards based on stakeholder needs.
* Drive the creation and QA of project-level Observability Plans.
* Input into and assure the quality of testing strategies and results.
Requirements
* Proven experience in an SRE role with a strong focus on Observability.
* Expert-level proficiency with DevOps tools including GitHub, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Nexus, CloudFormation/Terraform, and CodeQL.
* Extensive hands-on experience with observability tools – Datadog preferred.
* Deep understanding of AWS services such as EC2, ELB, ECS, S3, Config, CloudTrail, Lambda, EFS, and VPC.
* Strong scripting skills in Python and Shell.
Interested?
Apply now to be considered for this exciting contract opportunity, and play a key role in driving observability excellence within a major financial services organisation