Observability Engineer

From 43000 per annum (depending on skills & experience)

Full time / 37 hrs a week / Permanent

Huntingdon or Lincoln - Hybrid

Make every drop of your potential count. Join our team!

Were looking for an Observability Engineer to join our Digital Data and Technology team to help us transform how we monitor and manage our this pivotal role youll design and implement observability solutions that provide real-time insight into the health performance and reliability of Anglian Waters digital platforms and products. Your work will enable proactive incident detection root cause analysis and continuous improvement embedding observability as a core engineering discipline across our organisation.

What will you be doing as an Observability Engineer

• Design and implement observability solutions (logs metrics traces) using tools such as Prometheus Grafana Elastic Stack Azure Monitor Dynatrace.

• Build dashboards alerts and visualisations aligned to user and business needs.

• Integrate observability tooling into CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code.

• Standardise tooling across teams and support automation of alert responses and root cause analysis.

• Collaborate with development operations and platform teams to define SLIs SLOs and error budgets.

• Conduct root cause analysis and post-incident reviews to drive improvements.

• Promote observability best practices and coach teams on interpreting telemetry data.

What does it take to be an Observability Engineer

• Proven experience in observability monitoring or telemetry engineering.

• Hands-on experience with observability tools and telemetry systems.

• Strong scripting and automation skills (e.g. Python Bash).

• Background in SRE DevOps or infrastructure operations.

• Understanding of distributed systems and cloud-native architectures.

• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD practices.

• Excellent collaboration and communication skills.

• Commitment to service reliability and operational excellence.

As a valued employee youll be entitled to:

• Double Matched Pension Scheme matches your contributions up to 6% (up to 18% combined)

• Car Allowance

• 26 Days Annual Leave

• Personal private health care

• Annual bonus scheme

• Opportunity to volunteer and do unpaid work in the community

• Life Cover at 8x your salary

• Personal Accident cover up to 5x your salary

• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle

• Free parking at all offices sites and leisure parks

Were a purpose-led organisation committed to sustainability innovation and delivering long-term value for our customers and communities. As Observability Engineer youll play a vital role in enabling service-aware development and operations ensuring teams can see measure and respond to what their services are doing in real time.

Inclusion at Anglian Water

Join us and make a difference. Were committed to creating a workplace that reflects the diversity of our customers and communities. Were proud to support the Social Mobility Pledge Race at Work Charter Armed Forces Covenant (Gold) Disability Confident scheme and the Womens Utility Network.

Closing date: 10/12/25

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