System Monitoring & Observability Engineer

Salary: £42,000 – 60,000 per year

Requirements

• Proven experience with Prometheus (including PromQL) and Grafana in production environments
• Strong knowledge of Linux-based systems
• Experience writing and optimising PromQL queries for alerts and dashboards
• Familiarity with exporters (node_exporter, blackbox_exporter, custom exporters)
• Understanding of alertmanager configuration and routing
• Proficiency with Grafana dashboard creation and templating
• Strong troubleshooting skills for infrastructure and application issues
• Familiarity with containers (Docker)
• Scripting skills (Bash, Python, or Go) for automation

Responsibilities

• Design, configure, and maintain Prometheus-based monitoring solutions
• Develop and manage metric exporters for application and system-level data
• Optimise Prometheus scraping configurations and retention policies
• Define and maintain alert rules based on SLIs/SLOs and performance baselines
• Ensure alerts are actionable, with minimal false positives
• Participate (not necessarily lead) in on‑call rotations and incident postmortems
• Design and maintain Grafana dashboards for real‑time operational insights
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to create tailored visualisations
• Provide self‑service dashboard capabilities for end users
• Monitor infrastructure (servers, containers, databases, services) for uptime, latency, and throughput
• Identify bottlenecks and recommend improvements

Technologies

• Bash
• Docker
• Grafana
• Linux
• PLC
• Prometheus
• Python
• Security
• NodeJS
• Support
• UX UI Design

We at SRT Marine Systems plc are a market leader in international marine surveillance technology and systems, headquartered in the UK with a global customer base. We focus on enhancing security, safety, environmental protection, and sustainability through next‑generation maritime domain awareness technologies. Our company values high‑quality results and fosters innovation, making it a rewarding place for talented individuals to make an impact in the marine industry. We offer benefits such as highly competitive salaries, matched pension contributions, annual leave, and career development opportunities.

#J-18808-Ljbffr…