Observability Engineer

Elevate your career and become an integral part of the financial backbone of the nation. Inspire People is working with the Bank of England to seek an experienced Observability Engineer with expertise in SCOM (System Center Operations Manager) to act as the SME for infrastructure and application monitoring within the Bank of England. Competitive salary of £51,870 - £59,850 plus 8% cash benefits allowance, 10-25% annual bonus, a non-contributory pension plus further benefits. Hybrid working London (2 days a week). and a culture that values work-life balance and professional development.

The Bank is on a journey to migrate to a brand new monitoring system and way of working, so the time to join has never been better!

As an Observability Engineer your role will be to implement the strategy and product roadmaps for the monitoring technology, working within the Bank's wider architectural approach. You'll be familiar with working at Enterprise level and acting as a contact point for infrastructure and application monitoring. You'll be working with project teams to support the design and delivery of monitoring requirements as well as supporting the monitoring tools day to day in order to ensure ongoing protection and high availability of all of the Bank of England's technology components.

Responsibilities:

• Act as main contact point for infrastructure and application monitoring within the Bank of England
• Work with project teams to support the design and delivery of monitoring requirements
• Build strong working relationships with key partners in the technology and the wider business as well as core vendors and your immediate peer group
• Work within the operational support requirements for the monitoring platforms to ensure ongoing protection and high availability of the teams services including technical issues, risks, audit and compliance obligations.
• Drive a culture of best practice in monitoring and automation across the organisation
• Define and improve processes relating to monitoring and embed these into wider teams across Technology, supporting the DevOps goals

Experience. You will:

• Have strong skills in managing a SCOM monitoring service that serves multiple business units and use cases (Applications, Infrastructure, Database, etc.)
• Be able to evidence experience with integrating monitoring tools with data sources and other monitoring, automation and ITSM tools
• Experience in automating manual process and driving efficiencies
• Have strong data analysis skills, correlating data from multiple data sources
• Coding experience with various languages such as Python, PowerShell etc.
• Have experience of working on multiple work-streams to deadlines, taking care of conflicting and changing demands across a sophisticated portfolio
• Be able to demonstrate good judgement, problem-solving and analytical skills. Have the ability to balance and analyse a variety of internal and external sources of information.
• Have familiarity with Agile ways of working as well as working within an ITIL framework for support responsibilities
• Proven influencing skills required to engage, influence and challenge partners
• Have knowledge of cloud environments, infrastructure automation tools and security.

Desirable experience:

• Solid grasp of some the these technologies: Splunk, SCORCH, xMatters, Squared Up, Azure for DevOps, Jira, Confluence, Openshift, Prometheus, Azure Monitor, BMC Remedy
• Practical expertise in performance tuning, optimization and problems analysis

In addition to the base salary of £51,870 - £59,850 you can expect a planned, transparent progression with learning and development tailored to your role, and a culture encouraging inclusion and diversity, plus the following benefits:

• A non-contributory, career average pension giving you a guaranteed retirement benefit of 1/95th of your annual salary for every year worked. There is the option to increase your pension (to 1/50th) or decrease (to 1/120th) in exchange for salary through our flexible benefits programme each year.
• An annual discretionary performance award based on a current award pool (10%-25%)
• A 8% benefits allowance with the option to take as salary or purchase a wide range of flexible benefits.
• 25 days annual leave with option to buy up to 13 additional days through flexible benefits.
• Private medical insurance and income protection.
• Dental cover
• Interest-free season ticket loan

This role is not just a career move; it's a chance to leave a lasting imprint on the financial landscape of the UK. If you are ready to take on this challenge and possess the required skills and experience, contact Keesha Paulsen at Inspire People.