Monitoring and Application Technical Lead

Job Description

Monitoring and Application Technical Lead
Malaga
Permanent
58000 - 68000

The Background

We are partnered with a world class IT services provider based in Spain but operating and working with clients on a global scale. They have a new opportunity for an Applications & Monitoring Technical Lead to take control of observability operational standards and application readiness across a complex business critical estate.

This isnt a keeping the light on role its about defining what good looks like and owning how applications behave in the real world. Youll improve MTTR reduce repeat incidents and make application behaviour predictable instead of reactive.

Heres how youll do it:

• Setting and enforcing standards for monitoring alerting and operability
• Driving real observability (not just dashboards no one trusts)
• Cutting alert noise and improving signal quality and clarity
• Reducing incidents through better detection and root cause discipline
• Governing application lifecycle version control and compatibility
• Signing off operational readiness before services go live

What youll bring:

• Strong hands on experience running critical applications in production
• Deep knowledge of monitoring and observability tools e.g. Splunk Prometheus Grafana
• A track record of reducing alert fatigue and improving signal quality
• Experience owning standards and challenging stakeholders when needed
• Calm and structed decision making under pressure
• Excellent leadership skills and the ability to translate technical information in laymans terms
• Certifications in ITIL and Monitoring applications would be highly advantageous

Tech environment

Monitoring tooling / SIEM (Splunk) / Linux & Windows environments / Active Directory / ITSM (Jira/Halo) / Automation and Scripting / Networking core principles

If you are interested to find out more please apply for the role with an up to date copy of your CV. If you have any questions that you would like to discuss first please call Adam on.

Adam

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