Salary: £18,000 - 18,000 per year Requirements: Deep expertise in designing, implementing, and configuring Prometheus Strong knowledge of instrumentation strategy including exporters, service discovery, and custom metrics Proficiency in PromQL development for complex queries and performance analysis Experience with recording rules, alerting rules, and metric optimisation Familiarity with high-availability architectures, sharding, federation, and long-term storage solutions such as Thanos, Cortex, or Mimir Expertise in Grafana dashboard and panel design with performance-focused visualisations Knowledge of alerting configuration and best-practice alert routing Experience with synthetic monitoring integrations including Grafana Synthetic Monitoring or Blackbox exporter Ability to conduct log ingestion and analysis using tools like Loki Understanding of Real User Monitoring equivalents or integrations, such as Grafana Faro for web telemetry Responsibilities: Collaborate with Application Stewards and Site Reliability Engineers to confirm critical assets in scope for monitoring verification and uplift Work with EMAS to analyse Prometheus scrape coverage and exporter deployment Ensure Grafana dashboard availability for critical applications Technologies: Grafana Prometheus Web DevOps More: We are a leading financial services company based in Manchester, seeking a Prometheus/Grafana Subject Matter Expert for a 6-month contract. Our team values collaboration and innovation, offering a hybrid work model with 2 days in the office and 3 days working from home. We provide a competitive rate of £750 per day inside IR35 via Umbrella. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment and welcome diverse applicants. last updated 21 week of 2026