3+ years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, Platform/Infrastructure Engineer, Observability Engineer, or similar production engineering role
Comfortable managing production systems at scale that collect, process, store, and serve telemetry such as metrics, logs, traces, or profiles
Experience with Prometheus or a Prometheus-compatible monitoring stack, including metrics collection, querying, and alerting
Experience troubleshooting distributed production systems, including availability, latency, data flow, and capacity issues
Experience with Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform, and CI/CD
Experience operating containerised workloads with Nomad, Kubernetes, or similar platforms
Solid scripting/programming ability and comfort using AI tools and agents (e.g., Claude) to accelerate delivery
Strong incident response, documentation, and collaboration skills
Experience with VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, Tempo, Loki, Vector, Splunk, Alertmanager, or OpenTelemetry
Experience with PromQL or LogQL, dashboards or alerts as code
Experience with maintaining operators and their related CRDs in Kubernetes
Experience with Consul, Vault, AWS, and on-premises or datacentre infrastructure
Experience operating high-volume logging, streaming, or data pipelines
Experience making practical trade-offs between observability data volume, performance, and cost
Background in highly regulated or financial services environments where change management and audit trails are critical
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