Monitoring & Logging Engineer CGEMJP00333372

Role Title: Monitoring & Logging Engineer Duration: contract to run until 30/10/2026 Location: Knutsford, Hybrid 3 days per week onsite Rate: up to £416.86 p/d Umbrella inside IR35 Role purpose / summary The Monitoring & Logging Engineer designs, builds, and maintains observability capabilities across applications, infrastructure, and cloud platforms. The role ensures reliable log ingestion, actionable monitoring, and high‑quality telemetry to support operations, incident response, and platform assurance. Key Responsibilities Monitoring & Observability Implement and manage monitoring platforms such as Splunk, Elastic, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, or similar tools. Build dashboards, alerts, and health checks for performance, availability, and reliability. Define monitoring standards and onboarding requirements for new services and platforms. Log Pipeline Engineering Develop and maintain log collection pipelines, including parsing, filtering, enrichment, and routing. Ensure consistent, compliant log ingestion from servers, applications, and cloud services. Optimise data retention, indexing, and storage efficiency. Operational Support & Assurance Support troubleshooting and incident response through log analysis and metrics insights. Conduct platform tuning, optimisation, and capacity reviews. Identify monitoring gaps and implement improvements to strengthen observability. Collaboration & Integration Work with cloud, security, application, and operations teams to align monitoring with business needs. Integrate logging and monitoring with SIEM/SOAR and security tools for detection and response. Participate in incident reviews and help improve platform reliability. Documentation & Governance Create runbooks, onboarding guides, data dictionaries, and architecture diagrams. Ensure monitoring and logging meet compliance, audit, and governance standards. Skills & Experience Required Experience with Splunk, Elastic, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, or similar platforms. Strong understanding of log pipelines, event schemas, and telemetry design. Ability to build dashboards, alerts, and actionable insights. Experience supporting cloud or hybrid environments. Scripting (PowerShell, Python) is beneficial. All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!