Telemetry & Observability Engineer, London Stock Exchange

• Proven experience in observability, SRE, or platform engineering roles within complex, distributed environments
• Strong hands-on expertise with telemetry tools such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Elastic, Loki, Jaeger, or similar
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Go, Java) and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Helm)
• Deep understanding of cloud-native architectures (Kubernetes, microservices, service meshes)
• Experience defining and managing SLOs, SLIs, and alerting strategies
• Strong problem-solving skills and a passion for improving system reliability and developer experience

Desirable

• LSEG is seeking a skilled and forward-thinking Telemetry and Observability Engineer to join our growing Network Engineering function
• This role is critical to defining and implementing our observability strategy, ensuring our systems are measurable, reliable, and continuously improving
• You will work at the intersection of software engineering, SRE, and platform operations, helping teams across LSEG gain actionable insights from telemetry data and maximise the value of our observability tooling
• Design and implement scalable telemetry pipelines for metrics, logs, traces, and events across distributed systems
• Develop and maintain observability standards, NMS tooling, dashboards, alerting frameworks, and SLOs in collaboration with product and platform teams
• Champion best practices in instrumentation, monitoring, and incident response across engineering teams
• Integrate and optimise observability tools (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Elastic, etc.) within the NPS ecosystem
• Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure observability is embedded into the SDLC and CI/CD pipelines
• Drive adoption of observability platforms through enablement, documentation, and training
• Continuously evaluate emerging technologies and practices to evolve our observability capabilities