CareerPlan

Senior Application Operations Engineer

Edinburgh, Scotland, gbRemoteFull-time2026-11-02 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Own the performance, availability, and continual improvement of business-critical digital services using monitoring and performance data.

Role type

Senior Application Operations Engineer (SRE)

Builds

Monitoring dashboards, alerts, and operational metrics for cloud-native applications

Domain

Cloud-native infrastructure, observability, and application performance management

Required skills

Application Performance Monitoring (APM), observability, incident resolution, root cause analysis, distributed systems, microservices, AWS, Kubernetes, containers, release management, problem management, capacity planning

Preferred skills

Dynatrace (Distributed Tracing, DQL), Jira Service Management, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), ITIL, Agile, PRINCE2, Oracle/PostgreSQL, Java/Angular/JavaScript

Technologies

AWS, Kubernetes, Dynatrace, Jira, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Java, Angular, JavaScript

Responsibilities

Monitor and optimize application performance using Dynatrace; lead technical incident triage and root cause analysis; build and improve monitoring dashboards and alerts; coordinate changes and releases into live environments; manage incidents and service requests; drive problem management and capacity planning; maintain technical documentation and operational procedures.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC