Senior Observability Engineer
Contract Type
Permanent
Location
New South Wales, Sydney
Industry
IT
Specialisation
Infrastructure and Cloud
Salary
AU$160000.00 - AU$170000.00 per annum + plus super
Contact Name
Jack Shepherd
Contact Email
jack.shepherd@talenza.com.au
Date published
28-05-2026
Job Reference
BBBH21400
Description
Senior Observability Engineer - Financial Services - Permanent - Hybrid
About the company
- Tier 1 banking company
- $160k-$170k base
- Hybrid working
About the role
A leading banking company are looking to recruit a senior observability engineer to support their enterprise-grade observability platform within their network function.
The role would suit someone with in-depth hands-on skills using the Elastic stack (ELK)
Responsibilities:
- Work on a large-scale migration project
- Integrating logs, metrics, traces, and synthetics into a unified observability pipeline
- Maintaining the health of the observability system and supporting incident response
- Developing Kibana dashboards, visualisations and alerting mechanisms
- Implementing machine learning models
Key Skills:
- Hands-on administration skills with the Elastic Stack (ELK)
- Knowledge of Observability concepts like logs, metrics, traces, SLIs/SLO
- Experience with data ingestion pipelines
- Some technical knowledge of networks and linux