Observability Engineer
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Seaton Delaval, NE25 0QJView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£39,959 to £48,117
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
26 October 2026
7 days leftJob description
We are seeking an Observability Engineer to support the delivery and ongoing development of Trust-wide monitoring and observability capabilities acros...
- 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.
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.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.
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
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
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
How to apply
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Provenance
Source
NHS Jobs
First seen
15 October 2026
Last checked
19 October 2026
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