Salary: £70,000 - 75,000 per year Requirements: Previous experience in a senior network monitoring, network engineering, or observability-focused role. Experience working in a telecoms, ISP, managed network, or large-scale infrastructure environment. Strong understanding of network monitoring principles, including alerting, telemetry, dashboards, service health, and performance baselining. Hands-on experience with monitoring or observability tools such as VictoriaMetrics, Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios, Zabbix, InfluxDB, Telegraf, SolarWinds, PRTG, Datadog, Elastic, OpenTelemetry, or similar. Experience with network data sources and protocols such as streaming telemetry, gNMI, gRPC, SNMP, NetFlow/IPFIX, or syslog. Good understanding of time-series monitoring, metrics ingestion, retention, and performance visibility. Strong networking fundamentals across TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, VLANs, and optical or fibre environments. Familiarity with dashboarding, alert tuning, service health monitoring, and operational reporting. Exposure to AI/ML-led monitoring, anomaly detection, or predictive fault identification would be beneficial. Scripting or automation experience, such as Python or Bash, would be advantageous. Comfortable working independently and delivering against defined project milestones. Strong communication, documentation, and stakeholder engagement skills. Proactive, detail-focused, and comfortable solving problems without heavy direction. Responsibilities: Design and deploy monitoring solutions across newly delivered network infrastructure. Build monitoring capability that provides clear visibility of network health, performance, and service availability. Work with monitoring and observability platforms such as VictoriaMetrics, Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios, Zabbix, InfluxDB, SolarWinds, PRTG, Datadog, Elastic, or similar. Support metrics ingestion, retention, alerting, dashboarding, and performance visibility. Build or support streaming telemetry pipelines to provide real-time visibility across the network. Implement and refine alerting workflows for service health, escalation, and operational response. Develop dashboards and reporting views to support engineering and operational teams. Commission monitoring across network devices, access infrastructure, and Layer 1-3 equipment. Define baseline performance metrics, thresholds, and SLA-led alerting. Work closely with network and operational teams to align monitoring with changing infrastructure requirements. Support analytics-led monitoring for anomaly detection and predictive fault identification where relevant. Improve monitoring architecture, tooling, documentation, and handover processes. Produce clear runbooks, escalation paths, and operational guides. Support knowledge transfer into internal technical teams. Technologies: AI Bash Datadog Grafana Support Network OpenTelemetry Prometheus Python TCP/IP Zabbix gRPC More: We are seeking an experienced Network Monitoring Specialist to support a major network infrastructure rollout on a 6-month fixed-term basis. This hands-on role focuses on designing, implementing, and commissioning monitoring capabilities across newly deployed network and fiber infrastructure, ensuring the environment is fully visible and supportable from day one. You will work closely with network engineering and operational teams, making a strong impact in a project-led environment. This is a unique opportunity to take ownership of a critical technical area and leverage a range of modern monitoring technologies. The role is remote and offers a competitive salary between £70,000 and £75,000. last updated 19 week of 2026