Salary: £45,000 - 45,000 per year Requirements: We require deep expertise in designing, implementing, and configuring Prometheus and Grafana solutions. We require strong experience with instrumentation strategy, including exporters, service discovery, and custom metrics. We require advanced PromQL development skills for complex queries and performance analysis. We require experience with recording rules, alerting rules, and metric optimisation. We require knowledge of high-availability architectures, including sharding, federation, and long-term storage such as Thanos, Cortex, or Mimir. We require expertise in dashboard and panel design with performance-focused visualisations. We require experience configuring alerting and best-practice alert routing in Grafana. We require knowledge of synthetic monitoring integrations such as Grafana Synthetic Monitoring or Blackbox exporter. We require experience with log ingestion and analysis tools such as Loki. We require experience with real user monitoring equivalents or integrations such as Grafana Faro for web telemetry. We require experience working with application stewards and site reliability engineers in a financial services environment. We require the ability to analyse monitoring coverage, exporter deployment, and dashboard availability for critical applications. We require availability for a 6-month contract in a hybrid working model. We require the ability to work from Edinburgh, Bristol, or London. We require eligibility to work on an inside IR35 umbrella contract. Responsibilities: We will collaborate with Application Stewards and Site Reliability Engineers to confirm critical assets in scope for monitoring verification and uplift. We will analyse Prometheus scrape coverage for critical applications. We will assess exporter deployment across in-scope systems. We will review Grafana dashboard availability for critical applications. We will improve monitoring design and configuration across Prometheus and Grafana. We will develop and optimise instrumentation strategies, including exporters, service discovery, and custom metrics. We will build and refine PromQL queries for complex analysis and performance monitoring. We will create and tune recording rules and alerting rules. We will support high-availability monitoring architectures, including sharding, federation, and long-term storage solutions. We will design high-performing Grafana dashboards and panels. We will configure alerting and routing best practices within Grafana. We will support synthetic monitoring, logging, and real user monitoring integrations. Technologies: Grafana Support Prometheus Web DevOps More: We are recruiting a Prometheus / Grafana SME for a 6-month hybrid contract in financial services, based in Edinburgh, Bristol, or London. This role sits inside IR35 via umbrella at a rate of £750 per day. You will work closely with Application Stewards and Site Reliability Engineers to strengthen monitoring coverage and uplift observability for critical applications. Our working model is hybrid, with 2 days in the office and 3 days working from home. We are an equal opportunities employer and manage applications through our recruitment process. last updated 20 week of 2026