Senior Observability Engineer

Capital One (Europe) plc; Nottingham; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services organization in Nottingham seeks a Senior Observability Engineer. In this role, you will support teams in onboarding applications to monitoring tools and enhance monitoring capabilities. A hybrid working model allows you to work flexibly, fostering collaboration. The ideal candidate will possess skills in Logz.io, Open telemetry, and AWS, with opportunities for career growth and comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

Pension scheme

Private medical insurance

Generous holiday entitlement

Gym facilities

Subsidised restaurant

Flexible benefits including cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• Experience with monitoring and logging tools is essential.
• Strong support skills for onboarding applications.
• Ability to collaborate with engineers across teams.

Responsibilities

• Support engineers to onboard new applications onto monitoring tools.
• Improve monitoring platform capabilities across the enterprise.
• Provide platform support for monitoring tools across SAAS and AWS.

Skills

Logz.io

Open telemetry (OTEL)

NewRelic

Observe

Basic knowledge of AWS

Linux and Windows servers

Job description

Nottingham Trent House (95002), United Kingdom, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire Senior Observability Engineer

What you’ll do

This role is part of the team responsible for the monitoring of Capital One UK’s systems and applications.

The role’s main functions:

• Supporting the engineers in our delivery teams as they onboard new applications onto Capital One UK’s monitoring tools. This will involve providing them with help and guidance, whilst ensuring that the monitoring and logging is set up in accordance with Capital One’s standards.
• Partnering with engineers across the enterprise to improve monitoring platform capabilities
• Platform support for monitoring tools across SAAS and AWS.
• Leveraging AI to increase scope of monitoring and alerting
• Supporting a number of internally written solutions that extend our monitoring capabilities – for example collecting logs from AWS Lambda functions.
• Project engineering work to deliver new monitoring capabilities.
• Providing support and mentoring for more junior monitoring engineers.

What we’re looking for

• Logz.io
• Open telemetry (OTEL)
• NewRelic
• Observe
• A basic knowledge of Amazon Web Services, and Linux and Windows servers is also important.

Where and how you'll work

This is a permanent position and is based in our Nottingham office. We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working model – one that creates the opportunity to work in your own way, but also provides great spaces for in‑person collaboration.

We’re big on collaboration and connection, so you’ll be based in our Nottingham office 3 days a week on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.

What’s in it for you

• Bring us all this – and you’ll be well rewarded with a role contributing to the roadmap of an organisation committed to transformation
• We offer high performers strong and diverse career progression, investing heavily in developing great people through our Capital One University training programmes (and appropriate external providers)
• Immediate access to our core benefits including pension scheme, bonus, generous holiday entitlement and private medical insurance – with flexible benefits available including season‑ticket loans, cycle to work scheme and enhanced parental leave
• Open‑plan workspaces and accessible facilities designed to inspire and support you. Our Nottingham head‑office has a fully‑serviced gym, subsidised restaurant, mindfulness and music rooms.

What you should know about how we recruit

We pride ourselves on hiring the best people, not the same people. Building diverse and inclusive teams is the right thing to do and the smart thing to do. We want to work with top talent: whoever you are, whatever you look like, wherever you come from. We know it’s about what you do, not just what you say. That’s why we make our recruitment process fair and accessible. And we offer benefits that attract people at all ages and stages.

We also partner with organisations including the Women in Finance and Race At Work Charters, Stonewall and upReach to find people from every walk of life and help them thrive with us. We have a whole host of internal networks and support groups you could be involved in, to name a few:

• REACH – Race Equality and Culture Heritage group focuses on representation, retention and engagement for associates from minority ethnic groups and allies
• OutFront – to provide LGBTQ+ support for all associates
• Mind Your Mind – signposting support and promoting positive mental wellbeing for all
• Women in Tech – promoting an inclusive environment in tech
• EmpowHER – network of female associates and allies focusing on developing future leaders, particularly for female talent in our industry
• Enabled – focused on supporting associates with disabilities and neurodiversity

Capital One is committed to diversity in the workplace.

If you require a reasonable adjustment, please contact [e-mail]. All information will be kept confidential and will only be used for the purpose of applying a reasonable adjustment.

For technical support or questions about Capital One's recruiting process, please send an email to [e-mail]

Who We Are

At Capital One, we're building a leading information‑based technology company. Still founder‑led by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Fairbank, Capital One is on a mission to help our customers succeed by bringing ingenuity, simplicity, and humanity to banking. We measure our efforts by the success our customers enjoy and the advocacy they exhibit. We are succeeding because they are succeeding.

Guided by our shared values, we thrive in an environment where collaboration and openness are valued. We believe that innovation is powered by perspective and that teamwork and respect for each other lead to superior results. We elevate each other and obsess about doing the right thing. Our associates serve with humility and a deep respect for their responsibility in helping our customers achieve their goals and realize their dreams. Together, we are on a quest to change banking for good.