Observability Engineer

CareCone Group; Sydney; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

CareCone Group in Sydney is seeking an Observability Engineer to partner with application and infrastructure teams, enabling actionable insights from logs, metrics, and traces through Splunk and Dynatrace.

You will own onboarding of services, build operational dashboards, tune alerts to reduce noise, define thresholds, and deliver education sessions so squads can use dashboards effectively.

Qualifications

• Strong SPL query development skills.
• Experience configuring alerts and reports.
• Experience with Application Performance Monitoring (APM).
• Can provide consultation to teams on synthetic monitoring aspects.
• Understanding of web applications, APIs, middleware, and infrastructure components.

Responsibilities

• Engage with application teams to understand monitoring requirements and assist with onboarding.
• Design and develop operational dashboards in Splunk and Dynatrace.
• Configure and maintain alerts based on application and infrastructure requirements. Reduce alert noise by refining alert logic and escalation criteria.
• Define thresholds, anomaly detection rules, and notification channels.
• Develop Splunk searches, reports, and queries.
• Provide education session to the squads to enable them to use these dashboards and alerts effectively.

Skills

SPL query development

Alert configuration

APM

Synthetic monitoring

Web apps & APIs

Tools

Splunk

Dynatrace

Job description

Role: Observability Engineer Location: Sydney

We are seeking an Observability Engineer to support application and infrastructure teams in leveraging enterprise observability platforms, primarily Splunk and Dynatrace. This role is focused on enabling teams to gain actionable insights from logs, metrics, and traces by ensuring services are onboarded correctly, dashboards are developed, and meaningful alerts are configured.

Key responsibilities

• Engage with application teams to understand monitoring requirements and assist with onboarding.
• Design and develop operational dashboards in Splunk and Dynatrace.
• Configure and maintain alerts based on application and infrastructure requirements. Reduce alert noise by refining alert logic and escalation criteria.
• Define thresholds, anomaly detection rules, and notification channels.
• Develop Splunk searches, reports, and queries.
• Provide education session to the squads to enable them to use these dashboards and alerts effectively.

Skills required

• Strong SPL query development skills.
• Experience configuring alerts and reports.
• Experience with Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
• Can provide consultation to teams on synthetic monitoring aspects
• Understanding of web applications, APIs, middleware, and infrastructure components