Senior Observability Engineer - Lead a Major Enterprise Observability Transformation

We're looking for a seasoned Senior Observability Engineer to spearhead the migration from legacy APM tooling to a modern Elastic Observability platform powered by OpenTelemetry.

This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll drive enterprise-wide observability strategy, shape engineering standards, and help build the next generation of monitoring, telemetry, and reliability practices.

What You'll Be Doing:
Lead the migration from AppDynamics to Elastic Observability
Design and implement OpenTelemetry instrumentation and telemetry pipelines
Champion SRE practices including SLIs, SLOs, and proactive monitoring
Automate observability through Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, APIs and scripting
Build scalable dashboards, alerting frameworks, and self-service engineering capabilities
Mentor engineers and influence observability adoption across a large enterprise
Contribute to emerging initiatives including AI-driven operational capabilities

What We're Looking For:
Strong experience with Elastic Observability,



OpenTelemetry, and up-to-date observability engineering
Deep AppDynamics knowledge, particularly around migration and decommissioning strategies
Expertise in Kibana, Elasticsearch, ESQL, and telemetry data analysis
Automation-first mindset with IaC, CI/CD, and scripting experience
Solid understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles
Robust stakeholder engagement and enterprise-scale delivery experience

Why Apply?

Join a high-impact transformation program where you'll influence engineering practices across a large, complex environment while working with contemporary cloud-native technologies and observability tooling.

If you're passionate about reliability, automation, and building world-class observability platforms, we'd love to hear from you.

Please note that for you application to be considered, you must be based in Australia with Permanent Residency or Australian Citizenship as a minimum.

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