Jobs, fresher vacancy - Head of Observability • UK

Company: Plug

UK

Were hiring a Head of Observability to lead the strategy, tooling, and delivery of observability across complex platforms and services. This is a senior leadership role that combines deep technical understanding with strong stakeholder management and the ability to drive enterprise-scale observability adoption. You'll define the vision, build high-performing teams, and partner closely with engineering, SRE, security, and product to embed observability into the heart of how systems are built and operated. Key Responsibilities: Own the observability strategy and roadmap across logs, metrics, traces, and digital experience monitoringLead the design and delivery of scalable observability platformsBuild and manage a team of observability engineers and specialistsDefine SLIs/SLOs in collaboration with product and engineering to measure and improve system reliabilityDrive adoption of observability tooling and best practices across engineering teamsPartner with stakeholders to enable proactive incident detection, root cause analysis, and performance tuningEstablish governance, standards, and automation for consistent observability implementation across services What You Need: Deep experience in observability, monitoring, or SRE leadership rolesStrong technical knowledge of modern observability stacks and telemetry standards such as OpenTelemetry, ELK, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus SplunkProven experience leading teams and delivering observability at scale in cloud-native environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP)Solid understanding of DevOps, site reliability, or platform engineering principlesAbility to translate business goals into actionable observability outcomesExcellent communication and leadership skills with a strategic mindset Whats on Offer: Competitive salary and annual bonusFlexible working arrangements (remote or hybrid)30 days holiday, pension contributions, private healthcare