Job summary
We are seeking an Observability Engineer to support the delivery and ongoing development of Trust-wide monitoring and observability capabilities across on-premise, cloud and hybrid environments. This role will help ensure the performance, availability and reliability of the Trust’s digital systems that support patient care.
Main duties of the job
- Support the delivery and ongoing development of Trust-wide observability across on-premise, cloud and hybrid environments.
- Implement and maintain monitoring and observability solutions for telemetry collection, correlation, retention and visualisation.
- Support clinical safety by helping ensure patient-critical systems are effectively monitored and potential issues are identified early.
- Work collaboratively with infrastructure, application, cybersecurity, clinical safety and service management teams.
- Support the onboarding of new technical systems and equipment into observability and alerting platforms.
- Administer, maintain and enhance the Trust’s monitoring and availability tools, ensuring they remain reliable and effective.
- Support major incident investigation, post-incident reviews and the production of monitoring and analytical reports.
- Identify gaps in monitoring and opportunities to improve alerting, dashboards, automation and overall observability coverage.
Person Specification
Qualifications / Professional Registration
Essential
- Educated to degree level in a digital related discipline or equivalent level of knowledge plus additional specialist knowledge in an industry alerting tooling system
Desirable
- Evidence of continuous professional development or foundational training in network and systems infrastructure
Experience and knowledge
Essential
- Significant operational experience within an enterprise scale organisation, across multiple sites
- Operational digital experience with an ability to demonstrate the relationship between end users and the overall technology stack
Desirable
- Experience of navigating Windows server and UNIX environments to assist with monitoring queries and integrations
- Experience of network monitoring tools
- Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
- Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods
Other requirements
Essential
- You may also need to travel between Trust premises as required for the performance of your duties. You may also be expected to work at any of the trust sites. The Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Closing Date: 26 October 2026
