A major bank in Sydney is seeking a Senior Observability Engineer to join their team on a permanent basis.
The purpose of the Observability Engineer role is to support and maintain an enterprise-grade observability platform using the Elastic Stack. This role ensures full-stack visibility across infrastructure and applications, enabling proactive monitoring, anomaly detection, and root cause analysis to support operational excellence and business continuity.
Responsibilities:

• Integrating logs, metrics, traces, and synthetics into a unified observability pipeline
• Developing and maintaining Kibana dashboards, visualizations, and alerting mechanisms aligned with SLIs and SLOs.
• Implementing machine learning models for anomaly detection and predictive insights, as well as optimizing data ingestion, transformation, and storage to enhance system performance.
• Maintaining the health of the observability system and supporting incident response with actionable insights for post-mortem analysis will also be key responsibilities.

Key Skills / Experience:

• 5+ years proven experience with Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Beats, APM)
• Strong knowledge of observability concepts: logs, metrics, traces, SLIs/SLO.
• Experience with data ingestion pipelines, parsing, enrichment, and indexing.
• ML/Anomaly detection strategies.

Desirable:

• OTEL experience.
• App D
• ITIL
• CI/CD
• Automation/Coding.
• Experience with containerised environments.

If interested please respond ASAP with your latest resume