Salary: £70,000 - 75,000 per year Requirements: Strong hands-on experience with VictoriaMetrics in a production environment. 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. Good understanding of time-series monitoring, metrics ingestion, retention, and performance tuning. Solid knowledge of Nagios, including configuration, plugins, and alerting workflows. Experience with streaming telemetry tools and protocols such as gNMI, gRPC, Telegraf, or gNMIc. Strong networking fundamentals across TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, VLANs, and optical networks. Familiarity with Grafana, Prometheus, or similar observability tools. Exposure to AI/ML-led monitoring, anomaly detection, or predictive fault identification would be beneficial. Knowledge of SNMP, NetFlow/IPFIX, or syslog pipelines would be useful. Scripting or automation experience, such as Python, 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. Configure, optimise, and tune VictoriaMetrics for production network monitoring. Support metrics ingestion, retention, query performance, and long-term platform reliability. Build streaming telemetry pipelines to provide real-time visibility across the network. Implement and manage Nagios-based monitoring for alerting and service health. Develop dashboards in Grafana, or similar, 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 the use of analytics-led monitoring for anomaly detection and predictive fault identification. 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 Grafana Support Network Prometheus Python TCP/IP gRPC More: We are a growing technology and infrastructure business looking for an experienced Network Monitoring Engineer to support a major network infrastructure programme. This hands-on role focuses on building, improving, and commissioning monitoring capabilities across newly deployed infrastructure and network equipment. We offer a 6-month fixed-term contract with the opportunity to make a visible impact across a live network environment, ensuring that our infrastructure is properly monitored and operationally ready from day one. last updated 19 week of 2026