Senior Observability Platform Engineer

About Us Finalto is a global leader in liquidity provision and trading technology solutions, serving institutional and B2B clients across financial markets worldwide. With regulated entities in the UK, Singapore, Cyprus, Australia, and the UAE, and additional operational teams in Denmark and Bulgaria, we combine international reach with local expertise. Our business spans multi-asset liquidity, risk management, and cutting-edge trading platforms, supporting clients in achieving more efficient and sustainable growth. At the core of our success is our commitment to innovation, operational excellence, and robust governance. As part of a global financial services group, Finalto combines the scale and stability of an established organisation with the agility of a fintech innovator. We are driven by collaboration, integrity, and performance. Joining Finalto means becoming part of a diverse and dynamic team where your contributions have real impact. We invest in our people, offering opportunities for professional growth, international exposure, and the chance to shape the future of trading technology and liquidity solutions. The Team ClearVision R&D is a dedicated team consisting of three engineering teams and IT Operation, working together on the ClearVision trading platform, providing real-time pricing, risk management and order execution with sub-millisecond latency. The demands for precision and performance in our systems are high, and we maintain full control of our technology stack. We work in an agile environment within a fast-paced industry. Our work environment is characterised by openness, commitment, delegated responsibility, and strong teamwork. You will be working closely with our other engineering teams within ClearVision R&D, as well as our B2B business units in London, Singapore, Australia, Dubai and the US. The Role This role is not only about maintaining monitoring tools. It is about designing and implementing a coherent observability platform that makes our systems easier to understand, easier to operate, and faster to diagnose. You will work closely with Platform Engineering and service teams to improve telemetry quality, consolidate fragmented monitoring approaches, standardize instrumentation, and build service-level observability that supports both human operators and future AI-assisted operational workflows. You will act as a subject-matter expert for observability, helping define standards for structured logging, telemetry design, and service-level visibility across teams. Your focus: Create clearer service health visibility across critical systems and dependencies.Improve telemetry quality, consistency, and operational trustworthiness.Strengthen incident diagnosis and root-cause analysis.Lower cognitive load during operational events and reduce reliance on specialist knowledge. Contribute to building stronger foundations for future improvements such as AI-assisted operational workflows Qualifications 5+ years in observability engineering, SRE, DevOps, platform engineering, or a closely related role.Strong experience operating in complex production environments. Proven experience improving observability across multiple systems or teams. Experience modernizing or consolidating legacy monitoring and telemetry approaches Experience defining standards for structured logging / canonical telemetry, including schemas, metadata, and naming conventions. Experience with OpenTelemetry or comparable telemetry standardization approaches.Experience with service-level indicators, SLOs, and reliability measurements.Strong understanding of modern observability / observability 2.0 across logs, metrics, traces, and events. You are familiar with: Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform.Configuration as Code or equivalent automation practices.Scripting ability in Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar.Building or maintaining reusable operational platform components. Personal Qualities You are a collaborative team player with strong communication skills across infrastructure, platform, and engineering teams. You take initiative, demonstrate ownership of your work, and are proactive in solving problems. You are also service minded toward both clients and colleagues and thrive in a collaborative engineering environment.