A leading Financial Services provider is seeking a Senior Observability Engineer with advanced Elastic, OpenTelemetry and AppDynamics experience to join their team on a permanent basis.

Joining a highly skilled engineering team, you will lead the organisation's enterprise transition from AppDynamics to Elastic Observability using OpenTelemetry. You will be responsible for delivering scalable telemetry pipelines, modernising instrumentation standards and ensuring a smooth migration while maintaining or improving existing observability outcomes.

You will also drive the adoption of up-to-date SRE practices, automate the deployment and validation of observability components, and create reusable patterns that enable engineering teams to access reliable, self-service observability capabilities.

Responsibilities will include:
Leading the end-to-end migration from AppDynamics to Elastic Observability
Designing OpenTelemetry-first instrumentation standards and scalable telemetry pipelines
Developing Elastic dashboards, service maps and monitoring capabilities across logs, metrics and traces
Driving the adoption of SLI/SLO-based monitoring and alerting practices




Automating the deployment and configuration of OpenTelemetry collectors and Elastic assets
Integrating observability validation into CI/CD pipelines

To be successful in this role you will need:
Tertiary qualifications and/or relevant industry certifications
Extensive experience delivering observability solutions within large, complex enterprise environments
Deep AppDynamics APM knowledge, including migration and exit planning combined with expert knowledge of OpenTelemetry instrumentation and collector engineering
Advanced hands-on experience with Elastic Observability, including APM, logs, metrics, traces and service maps
Solid Kibana dashboard development and ES|QL query-writing skills
Hands-on automation experience using infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, APIs and scripting
Experience developing agentic AI capabilities would be highly regarded
Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence and collaborate across all levels of a large enterprise

To be considered for this exciting chance, please apply online now!

📌 Senior Observability Engineer Sydney (Australia)
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