Remote Network Monitoring Engineer - London

Salary: £70,000 - 75,000 per year

Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience with VictoriaMetrics in a production environment.
• Previous experience in a senior network monitoring, network engineering, or observability-focused role.
• Experience working in a telecoms, ISP, managed network, or large-scale infrastructure environment.
• Good understanding of time-series monitoring, metrics ingestion, retention, and performance tuning.
• Solid knowledge of Nagios, including configuration, plugins, and alerting workflows.
• Experience with streaming telemetry tools and protocols such as gNMI, gRPC, Telegraf, or gNMIc.
• Strong networking fundamentals across TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, VLANs, and optical networks.
• Familiarity with Grafana, Prometheus, or similar observability tools.
• Exposure to AI/ML-led monitoring, anomaly detection, or predictive fault identification would be beneficial.
• Knowledge of SNMP, NetFlow/IPFIX, or syslog pipelines would be useful.
• Scripting or automation experience, such as Python, would be advantageous.
• Comfortable working independently and delivering against defined project milestones.
• Strong communication, documentation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Proactive, detail-focused, and comfortable solving problems without heavy direction.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy monitoring solutions across newly delivered network infrastructure.
• Configure, optimise, and tune VictoriaMetrics for production network monitoring.
• Support metrics ingestion, retention, query performance, and long-term platform reliability.
• Build streaming telemetry pipelines to provide real-time visibility across the network.
• Implement and manage Nagios-based monitoring for alerting and service health.
• Develop dashboards in Grafana, or similar, to support engineering and operational teams.
• Commission monitoring across network devices, access infrastructure, and Layer 1-3 equipment.
• Define baseline performance metrics, thresholds, and SLA-led alerting.
• Work closely with network and operational teams to align monitoring with changing infrastructure requirements.
• Support the use of analytics-led monitoring for anomaly detection and predictive fault identification.
• Improve monitoring architecture, tooling, documentation, and handover processes.
• Produce clear runbooks, escalation paths, and operational guides.
• Support knowledge transfer into internal technical teams.

Technologies

• AI
• Grafana
• Support
• Network
• Prometheus
• Python
• TCP/IP
• gRPC

More

We are a growing technology and infrastructure business looking for an experienced Network Monitoring Engineer to support a major network infrastructure programme. This hands-on role focuses on building, improving, and commissioning monitoring capabilities across newly deployed infrastructure and network equipment. We offer a 6-month fixed-term contract with the opportunity to make a visible impact across a live network environment, ensuring that our infrastructure is properly monitored and operationally ready from day one.

last updated 20 week of 2026