Observability Engineer

Job Requisition ID: 39288 Job Title: Observability Engineer Practice: Technology Consulting – Observability & Performance Reporting To: Observability ManagerWhat will your typical day look like?
A typical day for professionals in Deloitte Engineering involves collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to design, develop, and implement innovative technology solutions for clients, balancing hands-on coding, solution architecture, and technical problem-solving with stakeholder engagement and agile ceremonies.
The work environment emphasises continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and adaptability, blending remote and on-site workspaces to support both focused individual tasks and dynamic team-based project delivery.
About the teamThe observability team within the engineering department focuses on designing, implementing, and maintaining monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to provide deep visibility into system performance and health.
Their core responsibility is to proactively detect, diagnose, and resolve issues, ensuring system reliability and enabling swift incident response to minimise business impact.
Role Summary As an Observability Engineer, you will support the delivery of observability solutions for enterprise clients, helping them improve system reliability, performance, and transparency.
You will assist in implementing solutions, engaging stakeholders, and ensuring adherence to best practices across operations.
This role offers an opportunity to develop technical skills and gain experience in observability platforms.
Assist in the implementation of observability platforms (e.g., Dynatrace, Splunk, New Relic, Datadog) across client environments.
Support delivery across client engagements, including planning, execution, and reporting.
Contribute to implementing observability engagements aligned to client SRE, DevOps, and Cloud objectives.
Provide support in monitoring, alerting, logging, and distributed tracing.
Collaborate with infrastructure, development, and platform teams to embed observability across SDLC.
Participate in client presentations.
Enough about us, let's talk about you.
1–3 years of experience in IT consulting, infrastructure operations, or observability roles.
Familiarity with observability platforms such as Dynatrace, Datadog, Splunk, or New Relic.
Basic technical knowledge in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP), DevOps, and automation tools.
Understanding of SLOs, SLIs, dashboards, alerting workflows, and synthetic monitoring.
Strong communication skills and a willingness to learn.
Relevant certifications in observability, cloud, or ITIL are a plus.
Why consider internal opportunities?
To apply for an internal opportunity, you need to have worked with us on a permanent or fixed term basis for a minimum of one year Ensure you have a conversation with your Career Coach before applying to any internal opportunities You will also need a minimum rating of "On Track" in your most recent Year Ahead conversation.
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Following this, you may be progressed through behavioural-based interviews which may include a case study.
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