OpenShift Telemetry Engineer
<p><b>Salary: £98,250 - 109,500 per year</b></p>
<b>Requirements:</b>
<ul><li>Design, implement, and maintain data pipelines to ingest and process OpenShift telemetry (metrics, logs, traces) at scale.</li><li>Stream OpenShift telemetry via Kafka (producers, topics, schemas) and build resilient consumer services for transformation and enrichment.</li><li>Engineer data models and routing for multi-tenant observability; ensure lineage, quality, and SLAs across the stream layer.</li><li>Integrate processed telemetry into Splunk for visualization, dashboards, alerting, and analytics to achieve Observability Level 4 (proactive insights).</li><li>Implement schema management (Avro/Protobuf), governance, and versioning for telemetry events.</li><li>Build automated validation, replay, and backfill mechanisms for data reliability and recovery.</li><li>Instrument services with Open Telemetry; standardize tracing, metrics, and structured logging across platforms.</li><li>Use LLMs to enhance observability capabilities (e.g., query assistance, anomaly summarization, runbook generation).</li><li>Collaborate with platform, SRE, and application teams to integrate telemetry, alerts, and SLOs.</li><li>Ensure security, compliance, and best practices for data pipelines and observability platforms.</li><li>Document data flows, schemas, dashboards, and operational runbooks.</li></ul>
<b>Responsibilities:</b>
<ul><li>Implement, manage, and optimize the observability stack within a Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform environment to ensure system health, performance, and security.</li><li>Bridge the gap between application monitoring and infrastructure, leveraging different tools.</li><li>Ensure effective collaboration with platform, SRE, and application teams for telemetry integration.</li><li>Maintain comprehensive documentation of data flows, schemas, dashboards, and operational runbooks.</li><li>Drive security, compliance, and best practices for all data pipelines and observability platforms.</li></ul>
<b>Technologies:</b>
<ul><li>Kafka</li><li>OpenShift</li><li>Security</li><li>Splunk</li><li>Cloud</li><li>DevOps</li><li>ETL</li><li>JSON</li><li>Kubernetes</li><li>Prometheus</li><li>Python</li><li>REST</li><li>RBAC</li></ul>
<p><b>More:</b></p>
<p>We are seeking a skilled OpenShift Telemetry Engineer to join our team in London or Sheffield. This role offers a hybrid working model, requiring just 10 days a month in the office. We pride ourselves on fostering a collaborative environment that values innovation and proactive insights. Join us to enhance our observability capabilities and contribute to the success of our projects.</p>
<p>last updated 8 week of 2026</p>
<b>Requirements:</b>
<ul><li>Design, implement, and maintain data pipelines to ingest and process OpenShift telemetry (metrics, logs, traces) at scale.</li><li>Stream OpenShift telemetry via Kafka (producers, topics, schemas) and build resilient consumer services for transformation and enrichment.</li><li>Engineer data models and routing for multi-tenant observability; ensure lineage, quality, and SLAs across the stream layer.</li><li>Integrate processed telemetry into Splunk for visualization, dashboards, alerting, and analytics to achieve Observability Level 4 (proactive insights).</li><li>Implement schema management (Avro/Protobuf), governance, and versioning for telemetry events.</li><li>Build automated validation, replay, and backfill mechanisms for data reliability and recovery.</li><li>Instrument services with Open Telemetry; standardize tracing, metrics, and structured logging across platforms.</li><li>Use LLMs to enhance observability capabilities (e.g., query assistance, anomaly summarization, runbook generation).</li><li>Collaborate with platform, SRE, and application teams to integrate telemetry, alerts, and SLOs.</li><li>Ensure security, compliance, and best practices for data pipelines and observability platforms.</li><li>Document data flows, schemas, dashboards, and operational runbooks.</li></ul>
<b>Responsibilities:</b>
<ul><li>Implement, manage, and optimize the observability stack within a Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform environment to ensure system health, performance, and security.</li><li>Bridge the gap between application monitoring and infrastructure, leveraging different tools.</li><li>Ensure effective collaboration with platform, SRE, and application teams for telemetry integration.</li><li>Maintain comprehensive documentation of data flows, schemas, dashboards, and operational runbooks.</li><li>Drive security, compliance, and best practices for all data pipelines and observability platforms.</li></ul>
<b>Technologies:</b>
<ul><li>Kafka</li><li>OpenShift</li><li>Security</li><li>Splunk</li><li>Cloud</li><li>DevOps</li><li>ETL</li><li>JSON</li><li>Kubernetes</li><li>Prometheus</li><li>Python</li><li>REST</li><li>RBAC</li></ul>
<p><b>More:</b></p>
<p>We are seeking a skilled OpenShift Telemetry Engineer to join our team in London or Sheffield. This role offers a hybrid working model, requiring just 10 days a month in the office. We pride ourselves on fostering a collaborative environment that values innovation and proactive insights. Join us to enhance our observability capabilities and contribute to the success of our projects.</p>
<p>last updated 8 week of 2026</p>