Cloud Engineer
Posted 1 week ago by ECS Resource Group Ltd
£500 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Summary: The Cloud Engineer role focuses on enhancing observability, application performance management (APM), and cloud monitoring and management (CMM) for a major IT service provider. The position involves designing and implementing solutions to improve service health and customer experience across cloud platforms. The role is hybrid, requiring 1-2 days on-site in Leeds, and is classified as inside IR35. The contract duration is for 6 months.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and implement cloud observability solutions
- Build and operate APM and monitoring platforms
- Implement logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting standards
- Support incident management, root cause analysis, and service improvement
- Optimise performance, availability, and reliability across cloud environments
- Work closely with Cloud, DevOps, and Service teams
Key Skills:
- Strong cloud engineering background (Azure and/or AWS)
- Observability, APM, and CMM experience
- Hands-on with monitoring tools (e.g. Azure Monitor, App Insights, Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic, Grafana, Prometheus)
- Experience designing alerting, dashboards, and SLOs
- Understanding of ITIL, service operations, and MSP environments
- Infrastructure as Code and automation experience beneficial
Salary (Rate): £500/day
City: Leeds
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Cloud Engineer Observability/APM/CMM (Inside IR35)6-month contract
Location: Leeds (Hybrid, 1-2 days per week on-site)
Rate: £400-£500 per day (Inside IR35)
We are supporting a major IT service provider who are looking for a skilled Cloud Engineer specialising in Observability, APM, and Cloud Monitoring & Management (CMM). You'll focus on monitoring, performance, reliability, and visibility across cloud platforms, helping improve service health and customer experience.
Key responsibilities:
- Design and implement cloud observability solutions
- Build and operate APM and monitoring platforms
- Implement logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting standards
- Support incident management, root cause analysis, and service improvement
- Optimise performance, availability, and reliability across cloud environments
- Work closely with Cloud, DevOps, and Service teams
Key skills & experience:
- Strong cloud engineering background (Azure and/or AWS)
- Observability, APM, and CMM experience
- Hands-on with monitoring tools (e.g. Azure Monitor, App Insights, Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic, Grafana, Prometheus)
- Experience designing alerting, dashboards, and SLOs
- Understanding of ITIL, service operations, and MSP environments
- Infrastructure as Code and automation experience beneficial
Further information available upon application.
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ECS Recruitment Group Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.