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Software Engineer (Monitoring Platform)

Job Posted: 13 days ago

Salary: £ 55,000 - 75,000 / Annum
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Bristol

Expire in: 14 days

Job Description

SRT Marine Systems plc (SRT) is a market leader in the domain of international marine surveillance technology and systems. We are a respected, established, and an ambitious multi-national company headquartered in the UK with a global customer base.

The company has a worldwide impact in the marine sector by leading the next generation of maritime domain awareness technologies "MDA", products, and systems that significantly enhance security, safety, environmental protection, and sustainability. Our customers are global and range from the largest national coast guards to individual vessel owners.

SRT is an exciting company where high-quality results are rewarded. We are ambitious and constantly seek to innovate in order to deliver better products and services to our customers. We strive to make SRT a rewarding and challenging place to work, where talented, hard-working individuals have the opportunity to make a real impact across the marine industry.

Role overview for the Software Engineer (Monitoring Platform)

As a Software Engineer (Monitoring Platform) here at SRT, you will be part of a small team responsible for designing, building, and maintaining our productised monitoring and observability platform. This platform is deployed across geographically distributed on-premises sites worldwide, serving clients with varying infrastructure and WAN capabilities.

Rather than simply using Prometheus and Grafana, you will be engineering the frameworks, tooling, and configuration pipelines that make our monitoring platform consistent, maintainable, and scalable across dozens of deployments. You as a Software Engineer (Monitoring Platform) will work closely with a lead observability engineer who oversees the platform's architecture, and you will have the authority to architect monitoring solutions and specify changes to be implemented by other development teams.

We are fortunate to have a team of highly experienced engineers, including UX designers, who can provide support and guidance as we extend the platform's capabilities to serve both internal engineers and external end-users.

Please note - you will be required to come to our Cardiff office 1 day a week

Key Responsibilities - Software Engineer (Monitoring Platform) - (not exhaustive)

Platform Engineering & Configuration-as-Code
  
Build and maintain configuration generation frameworks using Ansible, Jinja2, and Jsonnet to ensure consistency across deployments 
Design and manage Docker Compose-based service orchestration for the monitoring stack 
Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins) for building, testing, and packaging platform releases  

Dashboards-as-Code & Visualisation 
  
Develop Grafana dashboards programmatically using the Grafana Foundation SDK (Python) and JSON provisioning 
Design reusable, templated dashboard components that can be configured per-deployment
Collaborate with engineering and product teams to create tailored visualisations for both engineers and end-users  

Monitoring Architecture & Design 
  
Design and configure Prometheus-based metric collection, including recording rules, alerting rules, and service discovery 
Develop and maintain metric exporters for application and system-level data 
Architect monitoring solutions and produce specifications for implementation by other development teams  

Tooling & Automation 
  
Build and maintain Python and Bash tooling for deployment, bundling, and platform operations 
Develop automation to support environment-specific configuration layering and threshold management 
Contribute to the platform's packaging and distribution pipeline  

Required Skills & Experience - Software Engineer (Monitoring Platform)
  
Strong software engineering fundamentals - you write clean, well-structured, maintainable code regardless of language. You understand principles like separation of concerns, composability, and DRY, and you apply them to everything from Python libraries to Bash scripts to YAML templates 
Proven experience with Prometheus (including PromQL) and Grafana in production environments 
Experience with configuration management and generation tools (Ansible, Jinja2, or similar) 
Proficiency in Python and Bash in a Linux environment 
Experience with Docker and container orchestration (Docker Compose) 
Strong knowledge of Linux-based systems 
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins or similar) 
Ability to think architecturally - designing solutions that are consistent, scalable, and maintainable across multiple deployments
Comfortable working autonomously in a small team with significant ownership over your work  

Desirable Skills
  
Experience with Grafana-as-code approaches (Grafana Foundation SDK, Grafonnet, or JSON provisioning)
Familiarity with Jsonnet for configuration generation 
Experience with Thanos or other long-term metric storage solutions 
Knowledge of SNMP-based monitoring  

Within SRT the role title for this position will be System Monitoring & Observability Engineer

SRT Marine Systems plc are an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive working environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community

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