**3 days a week onsite in Sheffield**
* Design, implement, and maintain data pipelines to ingest and process OpenShift telemetry (metrics, logs, traces) at scale.
* Stream OpenShift telemetry via Kafka (producers, topics, schemas) and build resilient consumer services for transformation and enrichment.
* Engineer data models and routing for multi-tenant observability; ensure lineage, quality, and SLAs across the stream layer.
* Integrate processed telemetry into Splunk for visualization, dashboards, alerting, and analytics to achieve Observability Level 4 (proactive insights).
* Implement schema management (Avro/Protobuf), governance, and versioning for telemetry events.
* Build automated validation, replay, and backfill mechanisms for data reliability and recovery.
* Instrument services with OpenTelemetry; standardize tracing, metrics, and structured logging across platforms.
* Use LLMs to enhance observability capabilities (e.g., query assistance, anomaly summarization, runbook generation).
* Collaborate with platform, SRE, and application teams to integrate telemetry, alerts, and SLOs.
* Ensure security, compliance, and best practices for data pipelines and observability platforms.
* Document data flows, schemas, dashboards, and operational runbooks.
Required Skills:
* Hands-on experience building streaming data pipelines with Kafka (producers/consumers, schema registry, Kafka Connect/KSQL/KStream).
* Proficiency with OpenShift/Kubernetes telemetry (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus) and CLI tooling.
* Experience integrating telemetry into Splunk (HEC, UF, sourcetypes, CIM), building dashboards and alerting.
* Strong data engineering skills in Python (or similar) for ETL/ELT, enrichment, and validation.
* Knowledge of event schemas (Avro/Protobuf/JSON), contracts, and backward/forward compatibility.
* Familiarity with observability standards and practices; ability to drive toward Level 4 maturity (proactive monitoring, automated insights).
* Understanding of hybrid cloud and multi-cluster telemetry patterns.
LA International is a HMG approved ICT Recruitment and Project Solutions Consultancy, operating globally from the largest single site in the UK as an IT Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency depending upon the precise nature of the work, for security cleared jobs or non-clearance vacancies, LA International welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds.
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