Lead SRE / Observability Engineering Lead - (Outside IR35 Contract / Remote)
* Location: Bristol / London HQ - Largely Remote (Occasional Travel)
* Day Rate: Outside IR35 - £650 to £750 p/d
* Duration: 3-6 Months Initial - with intention to extend
* Payment Terms: Monthly
Our 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:
1. Strategy & 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).
2. Reliability & 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.
3. Instrumentation & Runbooks: Design and implement observability runbooks covering metrics, logs, traces, synthetics, an...