Are you an Observability Engineer who enjoys getting beneath the surface of complex environments, turning data into insight and helping teams prevent issues before customers feel them?

This is a hands-on contract prospect within a large, enterprise-scale financial-services environment undertaking a meaningful uplift in observability capability. You'll work closely with infrastructure, cloud, application and engineering teams to mature how the organisation monitors, diagnoses and improves the reliability of critical platforms.

You'll be the Dynatrace specialist in the room: helping teams get genuine value from the platform rather than simply generating more alerts.

Observability Engineer - Dynatrace 12-month contract | Sydney What you'll be doing

Designing, configuring and optimising Dynatrace across complex application and infrastructure environments

Building meaningful dashboards, service flows, alerting and reporting for technical and non-technical stakeholders

Implementing and tuning monitoring across cloud, on-premise, containers, middleware, databases and customer-facing applications

Using Dynatrace capabilities such as OneAgent, Davis AI, DQL, custom metrics, management zones and SLOs

Investigating performance, availability and capacity issues, helping teams identify root cause quickly Reducing alert noise and improving incident detection, triage and response





Working with engineering and platform teams to embed observability into delivery and operational practices

Driving standards, documentation and practical uplift across the broader monitoring capability

What we're looking for

Strong, hands-on Dynatrace experience in a large or complex enterprise environment

Experience configuring OneAgent, dashboards, alerting, management zones, custom metrics and service monitoring

Ability to translate technical telemetry into clear operational insight and actionable recommendations

Broad infrastructure understanding across cloud, Windows/Linux, networking, application stacks and databases

Experience with modern engineering environments such as Kubernetes, Azure/AWS, CI/CD or infrastructure as code would be highly regarded

Strong troubleshooting skills and the confidence to work with engineers through high-priority production issues

Great stakeholder management-you can challenge constructively, explain the "why," and bring people with you

Why consider it? This is a chance to have real influence over how a major organisation understands and runs its technology estate. You'll be working in an environment where observability matters, with complex systems, engaged stakeholders and plenty of scope to improve the way teams detect, diagnose and prevent incidents.

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📌 Observability Engineer - Dynatrace (Sydney)
🏢 Talenza
📍 Sydney