# Observability Engineer

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Northumbria House
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Engineer
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-18T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-02T14:21:03.677Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Tyne_Wear/Seaton_Delaval/Northumbria_Healthcare_NHCT_Northumbria_Healthcare_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Digital_Services/Digital_Services-v8315116
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8315116?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.northumbria.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### 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.

## Person Specification

### Other requirements

**Essential**

- 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

**Essential**

- Significant operational experience within an enterprise scale organisation, across multiple sites
- Operational digital experience with an ability to demonstrate the relationship between end users and the overall technology stack

**Desirable**

- Experience of navigating Windows server and UNIX environments to assist with monitoring queries and integrations
- Experience of network monitoring tools
- Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
- Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods

### Qualifications / Professional Registration

**Essential**

- 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**

- Evidence of continuous professional development or foundational training in network and systems infrastructure

## Documents

- [trust compact (pdf, 515.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3037)
- [guidance for applicants (pdf, 1.4mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2867)
- [northumbria privacy policy (pdf, 520.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1899)
- [adm8561 observability engineer  jd&ps (pdf, 312.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10659129)

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