Observability Architect at and-digital

Location: London, England
Type: Contract
Level: senior
Posted: Aug 10, 2026

Description

AND Digital is hiring an Observability Architect on a 12-month fixed-term contract to lead observability assessment, strategy, design, and optimisation for a co-location migration programme. The role covers enterprise logging, metrics, distributed tracing, monitoring, dashboards, alerting, performance baselines, monolithic application monitoring, compliance, auditability, platform improvement, operational readiness, and stakeholder collaboration across infrastructure, applications, security, operations, and migration teams.

Required Skills

Distributed tracing
Application performance monitoring
Centralized logging
Operational dashboards
Alert optimization
Performance analysis
Regulatory compliance
Infrastructure monitoring
Stakeholder management

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: Extensive experience designing enterprise observability solutions in large-scale infrastructure or data centre migration programmes
Experience monitoring latency-sensitive, business-critical enterprise applications
Experience with financial services operational resilience, audit, and regulatory requirements
Preferred Qualifications: Knowledge of infrastructure, virtualization, networking, storage, databases, and middleware monitoring
Ability to analyze operational telemetry and identify performance bottlenecks
Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
Ability to produce architecture documentation, monitoring standards, operational runbooks, and knowledge-transfer materials