Observability Engineer
Asda
AsdaLeeds, LS11 5ADView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Pay
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Contract
Permanent
Hours
37 hrs/week · Full-time
Closing date
3 November 2026
10 days leftJob description
PermanentHours Per Week
37.5Salary
Competitive salary plus benefits
3 November 2026Asda 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.
- 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.
- 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
- New Relic or Microsoft Azure certifications
- Azure networking and platform engineering experience
- Experience implementing observability standards and governance
- Retail or large-scale enterprise experience
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
How to apply
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Provenance
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Asda
First seen
21 October 2026
Last checked
24 October 2026
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