My client, a large consultancy, is in need of an Elastic AIOPS Engineer for a 6 month contract inside IR35 based in Sheffield offering 2 days per week remote but requiring 3 days per week on-site. The ideal candidate will have strong experience of OpenTelemetry specifications, SDKs, APIs, and instrumentation, hands-on experience with OTel agent and collector life cycle Operating Systems: Linux and Windows administration Observability Tools: Familiarity with Jaeger, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, ELK, Loki, SigNoz Programming & Scripting: Proficiency in languages like Python, Go, or Java for API integration Automation: Experience with Ansible, CI/CD pipelines Additional Skills: Kafka, InfluxDB, container orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes). The ideal candidate will have strong experience in observability, monitoring, or related domains, Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.