Senior Observability Engineer

Job Title

Senior Observability Engineer

Job Description

Are you passionate about data-driven insights and leveraging them to optimise both the reliability of complex systems and delivery pipelines?

Do you thrive in a collaborative environment working alongside developers and operations to achieve shared goals?

Is so, this Observability Engineer role in our global team might be the perfect fit for you!

So, who are we?

Hello, we’re IG Group. No, not Instagram – though we're a pretty big deal ourselves.

We’re a global, FTSE 250-listed company made up of a collection of progressive fintech brands in the world of online trading and investing. The best part? We’ve snapped up many awards for our top-class platforms, forward-thinking products, and incredible employee experiences.

We believe in financial freedom. And our purpose is to help ambitious people achieve it. Around 400,000 people use our groundbreaking technology and forward-thinking platforms to trade the financial products they know and love.

Did we mention we have offices in 18 countries? Yes, when you join IG Group, you'll have the chance to work across multiple brands, with people all over the world. Join us for an exciting future and let’s innovate together!

Your role in the Team

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Observability Engineer to join our team and help us build a best-in-class Observability Platform using the latest technologies. You will be responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining our Observability Platform, as well as collaborating with other teams to ensure that our systems are reliable, performant and observable.

What you’ll do

We operate in a dynamic and ever-evolving landscape of applications and infrastructure. Our team takes a DevOps approach, fostering close collaboration between development and operations to ensure smooth delivery and optimal performance. As an Observability Engineer, you'll play a vital role in this by:

• Looking for 7+ Yrs of relevant experience in designing, implementing and maintaining our Observability platform using tools such as OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus and Splunk.

• Developing instrumentation strategies to capture relevant telemetry data for comprehensive visibility.

• Utilising data visualisation tools to analyse trends, identify anomalies and diagnose issues proactively.

• Create and optimise alerting systems to provide timely notifications for potential problems.

• Work in a DevOps environment, using continuous delivery best practices.

• Collaborating with developers and operations teams to translate insights into actionable improvements.

• Stay up-to-date on the latest observability trends and technologies.

• Mentor and collaborate with other engineers to promote a culture of learning and innovation.

The way we work

We also think hard about our ways of working as a company. At IG Group, we’ve set out five target behaviours that we expect everyone to strive to achieve in all that we do: 

Lead & Inspire: Leading teams in a way that drives trust, alignment, and enthusiasm; 

Think Big: We focus on the problems that most move the needle of commercial outcomes; 

Champion the client: We always keep the client's needs front of mind and deliver as much value for them in all that we do; 

Deliver at pace: We work to ensure nothing stands in the way of fast delivery of sustainable growth for our business; and 

Raise the bar: We raise the bar by taking ownership of outcomes and being accountable for making things better across IG. 

What you’ll need for this role

• Strong understanding of monitoring and logging concepts and tools (OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Splunk, Prometheus, SLOs).

• Experience with Continuous Delivery and best practices (Gitlab).

• Knowledge of distributed tracing concepts is a plus.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with diverse teams.

• Critical thinking ability and proactive approach to identifying and resolving issues.

• Curiosity and willingness to learn.

• Passion for learning and staying ahead of the curve in the technology landscape.

Bonus points:

• Experience with cloud platforms (eg, AWS, GCP)

• Experience with containers (Nomad, Docker)

The perks:

It really is more than a job. We’ll recognize your talent and make sure that you can still have a life – at work, and outside of it. Networks, committees, awards, sports and social clubs, mentorships, volunteering opportunities, extra time off… the list goes on.

• Competitive salary

• Flexible Benefits Package on top of your salary (12%)

• Private medical cover for you and your family

• Life insurance

• Contribution to gym memberships

• 25 Days holiday, with 1 additional day off to celebrate your Birthday & 2 additional days off a year for voluntary work (28 in total

• The option to buy or sell holiday days.

• Unlimited access to the LinkedIn Learning Platform

• A comprehensive global and local onboarding process

• Employee-led LGBTQ+, Women’s, Black and Parents & Carers networks with an annual budget for organising events & projects that foster an open, diverse and inclusive culture

• Option to participate and create ESG initiatives based on IG Brighter Future Fund

• Enhanced primary (maternity), secondary (paternity), and shared parental pay and leave, as well as a range of support and benefits for parents

Where you’ll work:

We follow a hybrid working model; we reckon it’s the best of both worlds.  This model also feeds into our secret ingredients for innovation: diversity, flexibility, and close connection.

Plus, you’ll be welcomed into a diverse and inclusive workforce with a lot of creative energy. Ask our employees what their favourite thing is about working at IG, and you’ll hear an echo of ‘our culture’! That’s because you can come to work as your authentic self. The things that make you, you – like your ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith, age, gender identity/expression or physical capacity – can bring a fresh perspective or new skill to our business.

That’s why we welcome people from various walks of life; and anyone who wants to help us realize our vision and strategy.

So, if you’re keen to connect with our values, and lead the charge on innovation, you know what to do.

APPLY NOW!

Number of openings

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