Observability Engineer

Renaissance Infosystems Pte Ltd; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Renaissance Info Systems in Sydney seeks an Observability Engineer to support application and infrastructure teams by leveraging Splunk and Dynatrace. You will onboard services, develop dashboards, and configure meaningful alerts to improve visibility and reliability.

The role focuses on enabling teams to gain actionable insights from logs, metrics, and traces, with guidance from global platform teams. This is a permanent, on-site position in Sydney.

Qualifications

• Experience with enterprise observability platforms and dashboards.
• Ability to onboard services and improve system visibility and monitoring.
• Provide education sessions to squads on dashboards and alerts.

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 requirements; reduce alert noise by refining logic.
• Define thresholds, anomaly detection rules, and notification channels.
• Develop Splunk searches, reports, and queries.
• Provide education sessions to squads to enable use of dashboards and alerts.

Skills

Observability

Team collaboration

Dashboard design

Tools

Splunk

Dynatrace

Job description

About Us: Renaissance Info Systems is a technology and digital recruitment agency, connecting contract and permanent professionals with clients across Asia-Pacific.

We aim to differentiate ourselves through our level of responsiveness, and our understanding that comes from being an IT recruitment agency from the IT Industry. Our recruiters balance sophisticated and simple inter-personal techniques to assure a strong candidate network.

Know More: http://www.reninfo.com.au

Role/Title: Observability Engineer

Mode of Hiring: Permanent

Location: Sydney

Job Description:

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.

The successful candidate will act as a trusted advisor to engineering and support teams, helping them improve system visibility, operational monitoring, incident detection, and service reliability using existing observability platforms managed by global platform teams.

• 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.