Observability Engineer - Outside IR35 - Datadog Migration Specialist

Observability Engineer - Appvia - Datadog Migration Specialist

Location: UK - Remote - with Offices in London

Contract: 6 weeks (Outside IR35)

Day Rate: £400 - 500 per day

Start Date: ASAP

About Appvia

Appvia is a specialist cloud and platform engineering consultancy, helping organisations build, operate, and scale modern cloud platforms.

We work across complex environments where reliability, visibility, and performance are critical, supporting customers to implement best practices across platform engineering, DevOps, and observability.

About the Role

We are looking for a Datadog specialist to support a short-term engagement focused on migrating observability tooling from Grafana to Datadog.

This is a hands-on contract role where you will take ownership of migrating dashboards, metrics, and monitoring configurations, ensuring a smooth transition with minimal disruption to existing services.

You will work closely with Appvia engineers to implement best practices in observability and ensure the platform is well-instrumented, scalable, and easy to operate.

Interview Process - 2 Stage

• Initial Discovery call with Talent Acquisistion Manager
• Technical interview with Appvia Engineering / Practice Leadership

Requirements:
About You

You are a hands-on observability engineer with strong experience in modern monitoring tooling and cloud environments.

You will bring:

• Strong experience with Datadog (essential)
• Experience working with Grafana (migration experience highly desirable)
• Good understanding of observability principles (metrics, logs, tracing)
• Experience working in AWS environments
• Ability to work independently and deliver in a short timeframe

Responsibilities

• Lead the migration of observability tooling from Grafana to Datadog
• Recreate and optimise dashboards, alerts, and monitoring configurations
• Ensure metrics, logs, and traces are correctly integrated and visualised in Datadog
• Improve visibility, alerting, and operational insights across the platform
• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure minimal disruption during migration
• Apply best practices for observability, monitoring, and alerting

Benefits:
Why Join Appvia?

We are a self-funded, London based startup; providing businesses with a fast and secure way to deploy containerised applications into the cloud.

We are on a mission to enable organisations to make cloud-based software delivery simple and efficient, whilst having the insights into costs, security and cadence. As a company that holds customers at the heart of everything we do, we are looking for candidates that want to make a real change to how Dev and Ops is working in the industry.

With us our customers, like the UK’s Home Office & Bank of England, are harnessing cloud-native technologies, limiting the challenges of infrastructure management and rapidly delivering digital products.

• Short, focused engagement with clear deliverables
• Opportunity to work on modern cloud platforms
• Fully remote and flexible
• Fast interview process and quick start

But don’t just take our word for it, you can check out what our Appvians say about us on Glassdoor and by following us on LinkedIn, Twitter and TikTok.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and actively encourage, respect, and recognise diversity of thought and background throughout the business. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity, and disability status.