We are seeking an Observability Engineer to support application and infrastructure teams in leveraging enterprise observability platforms, primarily Splunk and Dynatrace. This role is focused on enabling teams to gain actionable insights from logs, metrics, and traces by ensuring services are onboarded correctly, dashboards are developed, and meaningful alerts are configured.

The successful candidate will act as a trusted advisor to engineering and support teams, helping them improve system visibility, operational monitoring, incident detection, and service reliability using existing observability platforms managed by global platform teams.

Key responsibilities

Engage with application teams to understand monitoring requirements and assist with onboarding.

Design and develop operational dashboards in Splunk and Dynatrace.





Configure and maintain alerts based on application and infrastructure requirements. Reduce alert noise by refining alert logic and escalation criteria.

Define thresholds, anomaly detection rules, and notification channels.

Develop Splunk searches, reports, and queries.

Provide education session to the squads to enable them to use these dashboards and alerts effectively.

Skills required

Solid SPL query development skills.

Experience configuring alerts and reports.

Experience with Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

Can provide consultation to teams on synthetic monitoring aspects

📌 Platform Engineer (Sydney)
🏢 Uniquehire
📍 Sydney