About the Role
As a Monitoring & Observability Engineer, you'll work in high-impact delivery teams that support some of the world’s most well-known organisations. You’ll play a key role in helping our customers achieve greater visibility, performance, and reliability across their IT estates—contributing to their operational success through proactive insight and incident prevention.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and manage observability solutions using industry-leading tools such as Dynatrace (primary), Grafana, and Splunk
- Collect and analyse telemetry data (metrics, logs, traces, events) to diagnose and resolve system and application performance issues
- Integrate monitoring platforms with ITSM tools (e.g. ServiceNow) and CI/CD pipelines to enable proactive alerting and resolution workflows
- Act as a Monitoring & Observability SME within customer delivery teams
- Support incident response activities and postmortems by identifying patterns, root causes, and optimisation opportunities
- Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to define and implement best practices in observability and monitoring
- Attend customer and project meetings to present monitoring solutions and technical designs
- Proactively identify and highlight risks that could impact solution success
Requirements
- Strong experience deploying and managing observability platforms including Dynatrace, Grafana, and/or Splunk
- Deep understanding of telemetry signal analysis and performance monitoring
- Experience integrating observability tools with ITSM platforms and DevOps toolchains
- Ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure and application issues using monitoring insights
- Solid scripting experience (Python, PowerShell) for automation and integration
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS) and monitoring containerised environments (Kubernetes, OpenShift)
- Strong problem-solving skills and analytical thinking to draw meaningful insights from data
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to convey technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience working in Agile project environments (Scrum, Kanban, etc.)
- A proactive mindset with a passion for continuous improvement and knowledge sharing
- DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) experience
- Automation with Terraform or similar tools
- Building CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes for packaging and deployment
- Ability to adapt to new technologies in fast-paced environments
Skills
- Dynatrace
- Grafana
- Splunk
- ServiceNow
- Python
- PowerShell
- Azure
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- OpenShift
- Scrum
- Kanban
- Terraform
- Docker
Location
- UK - London
- UK - Reading
- UK - Hatfield
- UK - Nottingham
- UK - Manchester
- UK - Milton Keynes
- UK - Birmingham
Work Type
- Standard
Education Level
- Dynatrace Associate & Pro
- Splunk Core Certified Power User
About the Company
- Computacenter is a leading independent provider of IT infrastructure services, with about 21,000 employees worldwide.
- We work at the heart of digitisation, advising organisations on IT strategy, implementing the most appropriate technology and managing our customers’ infrastructures.
- We offer a friendly, open working environment without too much fuss about hierarchy.
- We are looking for professionals with diverse competencies, personalities and strengths who want to live our shared value of teamwork and performance.
- Interested in joining a company with a strong sense of community?
- We’re growing. We’re hiring. We encourage. We empower. We support.
- #winningtogether #peoplematter
