Observability & Tooling Engineer – Outside IR35 – Remote UK

Location: Fully Remote (UK)

Contract: 6 Months

Day Rate: Up to £615 per day (Outside IR35)

Start Date: ASAP

We are looking for an experienced Observability & Tooling Engineer to join a global infrastructure operations team on an initial 6-month contract.

This is an exciting opportunity to work within a large-scale, highly distributed infrastructure environment, developing the tooling, automation and observability solutions that underpin critical operations.

Working closely with SRE, DevOps and Platform Engineering teams, you will design and build scalable, production-ready systems that improve infrastructure reliability, performance and operational efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, develop and maintain internal infrastructure tooling and observability platforms across large-scale distributed environments.

  • Build solutions that transform high-volume logs, metrics and events into actionable operational insights.

  • Develop and enhance monitoring, alerting and incident response capabilities using the Grafana observability stack.

  • Automate infrastructure operations, including provisioning, cluster onboarding, inventory management and lifecycle processes.

  • Develop and maintain infrastructure automation workflows using Ansible and AWX.

  • Build tooling to support capacity planning, performance benchmarking and infrastructure optimisation.

  • Develop and integrate services using Ruby/Rails, Go and REST APIs.

  • Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and self-hosted runners.

  • Collaborate with SRE and Platform Engineering teams to deliver scalable, reliable infrastructure solutions.

Key Skills & Experience

  • 6+ years of experience across Infrastructure Engineering, DevOps, SRE or Software Engineering.

  • Strong experience developing production-grade infrastructure tooling, automation or platform solutions.

  • Hands-on experience with Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Mimir and Grafana Alloy.

  • Strong programming experience in Ruby/Rails, Go or similar languages.

  • Experience with Ansible and AWX for infrastructure automation.

  • Practical experience working with Kubernetes in production environments.

  • Strong understanding of infrastructure monitoring, alerting, incident management and operational reliability.

  • Experience working with large-scale, distributed or enterprise infrastructure environments.

  • Knowledge of REST APIs, system integrations and service-to-service communication.

  • Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, ideally using GitHub Actions.

  • Familiarity with infrastructure telemetry protocols such as SNMP and syslog.

Desirable Skills

  • Experience supporting HPC environments, GPU infrastructure or large-scale compute platforms.

  • Kubernetes certifications (CKA).

  • Linux certifications (LPIC) or security qualifications.

  • Additional experience with cloud-native observability technologies.

Why Apply?

  • Up to £615 per day – Outside IR35

  • Fully remote working across the UK

  • Initial 6-month contract

  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge, large-scale GPU and HPC infrastructure.

  • Work with modern observability, automation and platform engineering technologies.

Interested?

If you're an experienced Observability, DevOps or Infrastructure Tooling Engineer looking for your next contract, apply now for immediate consideration.