Observability Engineer: Build & Elevate Monitoring Systems

Leidos; Canberra; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexibility benefits

Wellbeing programs

Learning & development

Impactful projects

Job summary

Leidos Australia is seeking a software engineering professional to design, implement and operate enterprise monitoring and observability solutions using the Elastic Stack. You will work with senior engineers to enhance system visibility, incident investigation, and resilience across applications, infrastructure and cloud environments.

The role emphasizes developing monitoring configurations, dashboards, and automation, with opportunities for technical growth and collaboration across teams in a

Qualifications

• Knowledge of software engineering principles and scripting concepts.
• Experience with monitoring/observability to solve operational issues.
• Understanding of OS, networks, VMs, containers or cloud services.
• Awareness of relational or non-relational databases and performance basics.
• Ability to investigate issues and contribute to resolutions.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain monitoring configurations and integrations for logs, metrics, traces and events.
• Build and enhance Kibana dashboards, alerts and reports for proactive monitoring.
• Create scripts and automation for deployment, config management and recurring tasks.
• Use observability data for troubleshooting and root-cause analysis and document findings.

Skills

Scripting

Observability

System integration

Collaboration

Documentation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Elasticsearch

Kibana

Logstash

Beats

Elastic Agent

Docker

Kubernetes

Python/PowerShell/JS

Job description

Leidos Australia is seeking a software engineering professional to design, implement and operate enterprise monitoring and observability solutions using the Elastic Stack. You will work with senior engineers to enhance system visibility, incident investigation, and resilience across applications, infrastructure and cloud environments.

The role emphasizes developing monitoring configurations, dashboards, and automation, with opportunities for technical growth and collaboration across teams in a