Job Requisition ID: 41658

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At Deloitte, we help clients make complex technology environments simpler, stronger and more valuable. We're looking for an Observability Senior Engineer Lead who can bring clarity to enterprise platforms across legacy systems, cloud-native architecture and emerging AI environments. This role is for someone who understands that observability is not just about uptime, infrastructure metrics or dashboard coverage. It is about helping organisations connect technology performance to the outcomes that matter: resilience, compliance, cost, customer experience and business confidence.

What will your typical day look like?

You'll work with clients to define the right instrumentation, shape observability strategy, design scalable architectures and turn telemetry into practical insight. You'll bring a clear point of view, ask the right questions, and help teams make better decisions when systems are under pressure. In this role, you will design instrumentation and observability architectures for complex enterprise environments. You will present recommendations to client technical leaders, explain the decisions behind your design, work through trade-offs and stay accountable for turning the thinking into outcomes.

You'll help clients answer questions such as:

- What should we instrument, and why?
- How do we connect technical signals to business impact?
- Where are reliability, cost, compliance or customer risks emerging?
- How do we make AI and platform environments more observable, explainable and resilient?
- What does good look like now, and what should we build toward next?

Enough about us, let’s talk about you.

You may be a strong fit for this role if you:

- Combine deep technical expertise with consulting experience
- Build trust with clients by offering clear, evidence-based advice
- Understand how enterprise, legacy, cloud-native and AI platforms behave in real production environments
- Translate telemetry into operational,



customer and commercial outcomes
- Balance scope, price, time and quality with confidence and care
- Challenge assumptions constructively and stay curious when the answer is not obvious
- Focus on measurable value, not technology for its own sake
- Can design a solution, explain the trade-offs, respond to challenge and help deliver the outcome

What matters for this role

Consulting experience

You have advised clients in a consulting or professional services environment and understand how to work across technical, commercial and stakeholder priorities.

Australian-based experience

You are based in Australia and able to work with Australian clients and teams.

Strong observability foundations

You bring solid experience across OpenTelemetry, platform engineering and SRE practices. You do not need to know every tool in the ecosystem, but you should be able to reason from first principles about instrumentation, collector architecture, sampling, pipeline design and production reliability.

Practical AI fluency

You understand how AI-enabled and agentic systems are designed, evaluated and operated in production. You can look beyond prompt usage and think critically about architecture, reliability, governance, risk and operational impact.

Relevant AWS experience

Much of the platform work in this role runs on AWS, so practical experience across the ecosystem matters more than familiarity with any single service. That typically includes container and orchestration platforms such as EKS, data lake and analytics services such as S3, Glue and Athena, streaming ingestion through Kinesis, and applied AI capability through Bedrock. You don't need expert depth in all of these, but you should be comfortable reasoning about how they fit together in a production architecture, not just naming them.

Relevant certification or equivalent depth





You hold at least one relevant certification, such as AWS Solutions Architect, OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace, Splunk, Datadog or an equivalent credential. More importantly, you can demonstrate depth in at least one platform and apply that depth in client environments.

Breadth across enterprise ecosystems

You are comfortable working across the major cloud, SaaS and enterprise platform environments that large organisations rely on every day.

Why Deloitte?

At Deloitte, we focus our energy on compelling and impactful work. We’re always learning, innovating and setting the standard; making a positive difference to our clients and our society. We put coaching at the heart of what we do, helping our people grow their careers in any direction – whether it be up, moving into something new, or even moving across the world. We embrace diversity, equity and inclusion. We have a diverse collection of people from different backgrounds, with different experiences, gender identities, abilities and thinking styles. What binds us together is a shared commitment to value everyone’s perspective and to cultivate inclusion; so that our work environment is a safe space we can all belong.

We value in-person connection with our clients and our colleagues. We offer several ways for you to work flexibly so that you can serve your clients, stay connected with your team, and manage your personal priorities.

We help you live and work well. To support your personal and professional life, we offer a range of perks and benefits, including retail discounts, wellbeing leave, paid volunteering days, twelve flexible working options, market-leading parental leave and return to work support package.

Next Steps

Sound like the sort of role for you? Apply now, we’d love to hear from you! By applying for this job, you’ll be assessed against the Deloitte Talent Standards. We’ve designed these standards so that you can grow in your career, and we can provide our clients with a consistent and exceptional Deloitte employee experience globally. The preferred candidate will be subject to background screening by Deloitte or by their external third-party provider.

📌 Observability Lead Engineer (Sydney)
🏢 Deloitte Services
📍 Sydney