Observability Engineer

Job TitleObservability Engineer
LocationAsda House
Employment TypeFull time
Contract TypePermanent
Hours Per Week37.5
Salary
Competitive salary plus benefits
CategoryInfrastructure
Closing Date3 November 2026
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
About You
You'll be an experienced observability engineer with strong expertise in New Relic, Azure and modern monitoring practices. You'll be passionate about using telemetry to improve service reliability and performance, with a pragmatic approach to automation, operational excellence and continuous improvement.
You'll be comfortable working with engineering teams across a large enterprise environment, helping translate complex metrics, logs and traces into clear operational insight and meaningful actions.
Everything you'll love
To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.
You will also get an excellent benefits package including:
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.
We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves