Observability Engineer

Job Title: Software Engineer/Observability Engineer

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Alderley Edge/ Edinburgh

Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

Closing date: 23rd Feb 2026

We are looking for a passionate and curious Observability Engineer to join our growing Operational Tooling team. This is an exciting opportunity for someone early in their career who wants to learn how modern digital platforms are monitored measured and improved through datadriven insight.

As an Observability Engineer you will help ensure our applications and infrastructure are reliable highperforming and transparent. Youll work alongside experienced engineers supporting key observability platformssuch as log analytics dashboards metrics and tracing toolsto keep our services healthy and proactively detect issues before they impact customers.

What Youll Do

• Support the operation and enhancement of our observability stack (e.g. log aggregation metrics dashboards distributed tracing).
• Assist in configuring and maintaining tools such as Splunk LogicMonitor AppDynamics and other similar technologies.
• Help monitor service health and detect performance bottlenecks across applications APIs and cloud infrastructure.
• Contribute to incident investigations by analysing telemetry data (logs metrics traces events).
• Build and maintain dashboards that give teams clear visibility into service performance.
• Work closely with platform and application teams to improve our monitoring coverage and observability maturity.

About You

This is an entry-level position and no prior experience in Observability is required.

• Has a genuine interest in monitoring reliability engineering or cloud technologies.
• Enjoys solving problems with data and investigating how systems behave.
• Is eager to build skills across logs metrics traces and eventdriven monitoring.
• Communicates clearly and works well with others.
• Brings curiosity initiative and a continuouslearning mindset.

What Youll Gain

• Handson experience with industryleading observability tools used across the organisation.
• Exposure to real engineering challenges across modern digital platforms.
• Mentorship from senior engineers who specialise in reliability and platform operations.
• Opportunities to contribute to automation service intelligence and platform improvements.
• A clear development path toward midlevel observability SRE or platform engineering roles.

Why Join Us

Youll be part of a team that plays a critical role in ensuring our technology ecosystem is resilient and our customers receive a seamless digital experience. Observability is at the heart of how modern engineering teams understand optimise and evolve their systemsand youll be joining at the perfect moment to grow as the discipline expands.

About Royal London

Were the UKs largest mutual life pensions and investment company offering protection long-term savings and asset management products and services. OurPeople Promiseto our colleaguesis that we will all work somewhere inclusive responsible enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered Trustworthy Collaborate Achieve.

Weve always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance. You can see all our benefits here -Our Benefits

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