Monitoring Specialist - Infrastructure

Peoplebank; City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Peoplebank is seeking a Monitoring & Observability Specialist to uplift enterprise monitoring, logging, alerting and operational visibility across a large technology environment in Brisbane. You’ll assess current-state capability, define the target state, and deliver practical improvements that increase service resilience and incident response effectiveness, with an eye toward AIOps maturity.

You will define standards, governance, and an operating model for monitoring/logging, improve alert

Qualifications

• Experience with enterprise monitoring/observability/logging/infrastructure operations.
• Proven ability to design/implement monitoring at scale.
• Strong governance and documentation skills for standards.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication.

Responsibilities

• Assess existing monitoring, observability, logging and event management capability and identify gaps.
• Produce a Monitoring & Observability Strategy plus future-state roadmap.
• Define standards, governance, ownership and operating model for monitoring/logging.
• Improve alert quality, dashboards, reporting, and operational workflows.
• Lead tactical uplift initiatives and support transition into BAU (docs/KT/support model).

Skills

Enterprise monitoring

Observability

Stakeholder engagement

Strategy documentation

Tools

Splunk

Azure Monitor

Dynatrace

Datadog

New Relic

Elastic

Grafana

Prometheus

Job description

Role: Monitoring Specialist – Infrastructure

Location: Brisbane CBD

Contract: 12 months initial, possible exension

About the Role:

We’re seeking a Monitoring & Observability Specialist to uplift enterprise monitoring, logging, alerting and operational visibility across a large, complex technology environment. You’ll assess current-state capability, define the target state, and deliver practical improvements that increase service resilience and incident response effectiveness (with an eye toward AIOps maturity).

Responsibilites:

• Assess existing monitoring, observability, logging and event management capability and identify gaps
• Produce a Monitoring & Observability Strategy plus future-state roadmap
• Define standards, governance, ownership and operating model for monitoring/logging
• Improve alert quality, dashboards, reporting, and operational workflows
• Lead tactical uplift initiatives and support transition into BAU (docs/KT/support model)

Qualifications:

• Experienced within enterprise monitoring/observability/logging/infrastructure operations
• Skilled with:
  • Splunk (Consultant/Architect/Admin)
  • Azure Monitor / Azure Admin / Azure Solutions Architect
  • Dynatrace / Datadog / New Relic / Elastic / Grafana / Prometheus
• Proven experience designing/implementing monitoring & observability solutions at scale
• Strong stakeholder engagement and ability to produce high-quality strategy/standards documentation

Note: We may use Aida (AI-assisted screening) as part of the initial application screening process.

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