Description
Asda is looking for an experienced Observability Engineer to join the Cloud Platform Team, helping to improve the reliability, performance and operational visibility of services across one of the UK's largest Azure estates.
This is a hands-on engineering role focused on enterprise observability, New Relic, Azure monitoring, automation and engineering standards. You'll play a key role in helping teams gain actionable insights into their services, improving operational excellence and supporting the reliability of critical business platforms.
Key Responsibilities
- Build, support and continuously improve enterprise observability capabilities.
- Develop and maintain New Relic dashboards, alerts and service-level monitoring.
- Enhance Azure monitoring coverage across cloud platforms and applications.
- Deliver monitoring and observability solutions through Infrastructure as Code.
- Support incident investigation, troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
- Drive improvements in service reliability, availability and performance.
- Promote observability best practices across engineering teams.
- Contribute to automation and standardisation initiatives within the Cloud Platform Team.
Essential Technical Skills
- New Relic in enterprise production environments
- Microsoft Azure and Azure Monitor
- OpenTelemetry
- Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- GitHub and Azure DevOps
- Metrics, logs, traces and synthetic monitoring
- Dashboard development, alerting and service health monitoring
- Incident investigation and root cause analysis
- Observability engineering, automation and platform support
Desirable Skills
- New Relic or Microsoft Azure certifications
- Azure networking and platform engineering experience
- Experience implementing observability standards and governance
- Retail or large-scale enterprise experience
Benefits
- Discretionary company bonus
- Company pension up to 7% matched
- Company Car allowance of £5,700
- 15% colleague discount in store and online
- Free access to wellbeing services such as Stream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.
- Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
- Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.