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We are the way the world moves value - across borders, through cities and overseas. No other organisation can address the scale, precision, pace and trust that this demands, and we’re proud to support the global economy.\nWe’re unique too. We were established to find a better way for the global financial community to move value - a reliable, safe and secure approach that the community can trust, completely. We’re always striving to be better and are constantly evolving in an ever-changing landscape, without undermining that trust. Five decades on, our vibrant community reflects the complexity and diversity of the financial ecosystem. We innovate diligently, test exhaustively, then implement fast. In a connected and exciting era, our mission has never been more relevant. Swift now has a presence in 200+ countries and legal territories to serve a community of more than 12,000 banks and financial institutions.\nIn line with team objectives, policies and procedures and under guidance of a more senior team member, to design, develop specifications, code, install, test and maintain high quality application software and associated tools.\nAs we continue to scale our Observability Platform and Practice, we are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Observability Software Engineer. You will contribute to the development and enhancement of our observability platform, working alongside experienced engineers to build tooling, automate processes, and improve monitoring capabilities.\nYou will be onboarding application logs onto our Elastic Stack platform as part of the Oasis UX team within Swift, building and refining log parsers and pipelines to enrich and aggregate data, and delivering meaningful insights through well-crafted Kibana dashboards. Your software engineering expertise in Java and Python will be critical in developing tooling, automation, and integrations that elevate the quality and coverage of our observability practice.\nYou will also take part in CI/CD pipeline development and maintenance. Your contributions will ensure that observability solutions are delivered with speed, reliability, and performance at scale - enabling engineering teams across the organization to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize their applications with confidence.\nEducation\nUniversity degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent.\nExperience\n3+ years in software development with strong proficiency in Java or Python.\nExposure to log management, data pipelines, or observability platforms (e.g., Elastic Stack, Splunk, Datadog, Grafana, or equivalent) is a plus.\nKey Responsibilities\nObservability Platform Engineering\nContribute to the development and maintenance of the software components and automation tools in Java and Python to support observability platform capabilities and integrations.\nAssist the onboarding of application logs onto the observability platform, working closely with application teams to define logging standards, structured log formats, and ingestion pipelines.\nContribute to the development of log parsers and ingestion pipelines.\nContribute to the development of Kibana dashboards and analyst-friendly visualisations;\nAssist in implementing alerting rules and anomaly detection to support operational and business needs.\nParticipate in on-call rotation and scheduled weekend deployments as required.\nDevOps & CI/CD\nContribute to CI/CD pipelines (build, test, package, security scan, deploy, rollback) for observability platform components and content (dashboards, index templates, alert rules).\nApply infrastructure-as-code practices using tools such as Ansible, Docker, and Kubernetes for consistent, repeatable deployments.\nWhat Will Make You Successful\nStrong software development skills in Java or Python, with a solid understanding of object-oriented programming (OOP) principles.\nFamiliarity with DevOps CI/CD tooling such as Cloudbees, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Ansible, Docker, or OpenShift.\nFamiliarity with relational databases (e.g. Oracle, MySQL), NoSQL databases, or Elasticsearch\nFamiliarity with various OS platforms including Windows and Linux.\nStrong interpersonal and communication skills with a customer-centric mindset and ability to work across cultural diversity and time zones.\nThe Following Experience Will Give Candidates an Added Advantage\nGood understanding of observability concepts - logs, metrics, traces, APM and practical experience implementing alerting strategies.\nGood understanding of big data or streaming technologies such as Kafka or other message queue systems will be a strong advantage.\nExposure with Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Beats/Elastic Agent) including cluster internals - shards, replicas, ILM, index patterns, snapshots, and query tuning will be a strong advantage.\nExposure to OpenTelemetry such as OTEL or other distributed tracing frameworks.\nFamiliarity with SOA and API technologies - microservices, REST, SOAP.\nExperience in a regulated or financial services environment.\nRequired Skills\nJava (Programming Language);\nPython (Programming Language);\nDevOps;\nCI/CD;\nOptional Skills\nApache Kafka;\nElastic Stack (ELK);\nKibana\nDocker\nKubernetes\nOpenTelemetry\nCloudBees Jenkins;\nRed Hat Ansible\n;Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)\nWhat we offer\nWe give you the freedom to be yourself. We are creating an environment of unique individuals - like you - with different perspectives on the financial industry and the world. A diverse and inclusive environment in which everyone’s voice counts and where you can reach your full potential.\nWe are committed to an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require a reasonable accommodation related to accessibility during your application or interview, please contact  or indicate this in your application.\nPlease note that this mailbox is not monitored for general recruitment enquiries and should only be used for accessibility or accommodation-related requests (for example related to vision, hearing or neurodiversity).\nAll requests are confidential and will not affect your candidacy.\nDon’t meet every single requirement? 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