Engineering Lead - Observability - Prometheus/Grafana

Posted 22 hours 5 minutes ago by Adecco

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London, United Kingdom
Job Description

Engineering Lead - Observability (Prometheus/Grafana)

Global Bank | 6-Month Contract | Inside IR35
Hybrid: 2 Days Onsite - London, Birmingham, Manchester or Edinburgh

My client, a global bank is looking for an experienced Engineering Lead to strengthen its observability and monitoring capabilities across critical applications. This is a hands-on role focused on Prometheus, Grafana, and modern telemetry tooling.

Key Responsibilities

  • Improve Prometheus scrape coverage, exporter deployment, and Grafana dashboards for critical systems.
  • Enhance monitoring configuration, alert quality, SLIs/SLOs, and KPIs.
  • Deliver accurate end-to-end flow visibility through service maps and dependency visualisation.
  • Refine observability practices to support operational resilience

Essential Skills

  • Deep expertise with Prometheus (instrumentation, PromQL, alerting rules, HA, Thanos/Cortex/Mimir).
  • Strong Grafana skills: dashboards, alerting, synthetic monitoring, Loki logs, RUM tooling.
  • Experience with APIs, automation, and integrations across Loki, Tempo, and OpenTelemetry.

Desirable

  • ML-assisted anomaly detection and advanced root-cause analysis across metrics/logs/traces.

If this sounds like something you'd be interested in, please apply with your updated CV