SRT Marine Systems plc
Software Engineer - System Monitoring Platform
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Software Engineer - System Monitoring Platform
Software Engineer (Monitoring Platform) – System Monitoring & Observability Engineer
About SRT
SRT Marine Systems plc is a market leader in international marine surveillance technology and systems. As a respected, established multi-national company headquartered in the UK, we operate globally—serving a diverse customer base from national coast guards to individual vessel owners.
Our technologies enhance maritime domain awareness (MDA), security, safety, environmental protection, and sustainability through next-generation products and systems. Here, innovation is rewarded, and talented individuals have the opportunity to make a real impact in the marine industry. We foster an ambitious environment where high-quality results drive success, while we strive to be a rewarding and challenging place to work.
The Role: Software Engineer (Monitoring Platform)
As a Software Engineer (Monitoring Platform), you’ll be part of a small, dedicated team responsible for designing, building, and maintaining our productised monitoring and observability platform. Deployed across geographically distributed on-premises sites worldwide, this platform caters to customers with varying infrastructure and network (WAN) capabilities.
Unlike basic Prometheus/Grafana setups, your work will focus on engineering frameworks, tooling, and configuration pipelines that ensure consistency, maintainability, and scalability across hundreds of deployments.
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Responsibilities:
Platform Engineering & Configuration-as-Code
- Build and maintain configuration generation frameworks using Ansible, Jinja2, and Jsonnet to ensure consistency across deployments.
- Design and manage Docker Compose-based service orchestration for the monitoring stack.
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins) for building, testing, and packaging platform releases.
Dashboards-as-Code & Visualisation
- Develop Grafana dashboards programmatically using the Grafana Foundation SDK (Python) and JSON provisioning.
- Design reusable, templated dashboard components configurable per deployment.
- Collaborate with engineering and product teams to tailor visualisations for both engineers and end-users.
Monitoring Architecture & Design
- Design and configure Prometheus-based metric collection, including recording rules, alerting rules, and service discovery.
- Develop and maintain metric exporters for application and system-level data.
- Architect monitoring solutions and produce specifications for other development teams to implement.
Tooling & Automation
- Build and maintain Python and Bash tooling for deployment, bundling, and platform operations.
- Develop automation for environment-specific configuration layering and threshold management.
- Contribute to the platform’s packaging and distribution pipeline.
Note: You will be required to come to our Cardiff office 1 day a week.
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Requirements
Critical Skills & Experience
- Strong software engineering fundamentals – Write clean, well-structured, maintainable code in any language. Apply principles such as separation of concerns, composability, and DRY.
- Proven experience with Prometheus, including PromQL, and Grafana in production environments.
- Experience with configuration management/tools, such as Ansible, Jinja2, or similar.
- Proficiency in Python and Bash in a Linux environment.
- Experience with Docker and container orchestration (Docker Compose).
- Strong knowledge of Linux-based systems.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins or similar).
- Ability to think architecturally—design solutions for consistency, scalability, and maintainability across diverse deployments.
- Comfortable working autonomously in a small team, with significant ownership of your work.
Desirable Skills
- Experience with Grafana-as-code (Grafana Foundation SDK, Grafonnet, or JSON provisioning).
- Familiarity with Jsonnet for configuration generation.
- Experience with Thanos or other long-term metric storage solutions.
- Knowledge of SNMP-based monitoring.
Equal Opportunities
SRT Marine Systems plc is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive working environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from diverse backgrounds.
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