A major bank is seeking a Senior Observability Engineer – Opentelemetry to join their team on a permanent basis. This is a newly created role.

You will lead the enterprise transition from AppDynamics to Elastic Observability using OpenTelemetry, driving contemporary observability practices, improving reliability and scalability, and ensuring a smooth migration through robust technical leadership, automation and alignment to SRE and cloud-native standards.

Responsibilities:
Define and implement OTEL-first instrumentation standards and scalable telemetry pipelines
Drive adoption of SRE practices, shifting towards SLI/SLO-based monitoring and alerting models
Automate deployment, configuration and validation of OTEL collectors, Elastic assets and CI/CD observability checks
Lead the end-to-end migration from AppDynamics to Elastic using OTEL, ensuring parity or improved observability outcomes
Enable protected and automated decommissioning of legacy AppDynamics tooling, agents and licences
Improve platform reliability, scalability and self-service observability through reusable patterns and automation




Provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineering and SRE teams, producing runbooks and self-service assets to support adoption

Key Skills / Experience:
Expert OTEL architecture, standards, governance and implementation experience at an enterprise level
AppDynamics APM knowledge for migration and exit planning and or/ other APM experience
Expert Open Telemetry instrumentation and collector engineering
Elastic Observability (APM, traces, logs, metrics, service maps)
knowledge of Kibana for dashboard creation
ESQL Query writing language to search, filter, transform, and analyse data stored in Elasticsearch—especially logs, metrics, events, and security data.
Hands-on automation using Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, APIs, and scripting
SRE practices including SLIs, SLOs, and incident diagnostics Strong governance, cost optimisation, and risk management mindset
Experience building Agentic AI capability

If interested please respond ASAP

Reference number: BH-62763-1

Company: Bluefin Resources

Date posted: 13th Oct, 2026

📌 Senior Observability Engineer Opentelemetry Major Bankjust Posted! Sydney
🏢 Bluefin Resources
📍 Sydney