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Job requirements
Essential
4 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Other requirements
You may also need to travel between Trust premises as required for the performance of your duties. You may also be expected to work at any of the trust sites. The Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role
- Experience and knowledge
Significant operational experience within an enterprise scale organisation, across multiple sites
- Experience and knowledge
Operational digital experience with an ability to demonstrate the relationship between end users and the overall technology stack
- Qualifications / Professional Registration
Educated to degree level in a digital related discipline or equivalent level of knowledge plus additional specialist knowledge in an industry alerting tooling system
Desirable
5 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience and knowledge
Experience of navigating Windows server and UNIX environments to assist with monitoring queries and integrations
- Experience and knowledge
Experience of network monitoring tools
- Experience and knowledge
Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
- Experience and knowledge
Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods
- Qualifications / Professional Registration
Evidence of continuous professional development or foundational training in network and systems infrastructure
Job overview
We are seeking an Observability Engineer to support the delivery and ongoing development of Trust-wide monitoring and observability capabilities across on-premise, cloud and hybrid environments. This role will help ensure the performance, availability and reliability of the Trust's digital systems that support patient care.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Main duties of the job
- Support the delivery and ongoing development of Trust-wide observability across on-premise, cloud and hybrid environments.
- Implement and maintain monitoring and observability solutions for telemetry collection, correlation, retention and visualisation.
- Support clinical safety by helping ensure patient-critical systems are effectively monitored and potential issues are identified early.
- Work collaboratively with infrastructure, application, cybersecurity, clinical safety and service management teams.
- Support the onboarding of new technical systems and equipment into observability and alerting platforms.
- Administer, maintain and enhance the Trust's monitoring and availability tools, ensuring they remain reliable and effective.
- Support major incident investigation, post-incident reviews and the production of monitoring and analytical reports.
- Identify gaps in monitoring and opportunities to improve alerting, dashboards, automation and overall observability coverage.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will support the implementation and maintenance of the Trust's observability capabilities across metrics, logs, tracing, alerting and dashboards. Working with infrastructure, application, cybersecurity and clinical safety teams, you will help improve monitoring coverage, support proactive identification of issues and contribute to incident response, service resilience and continual improvement.
This is a unique opportunity to shape a core digital capability within a progressive Trust.
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This advert is for Observability Engineer with Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Engineer role. The advertised salary is £39,959 - £48,117 per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 18 Oct 2026.
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