Observability Engineer: Dashboards, Alerts & Automation

Leidos LLC; North Canberra; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flex Your Way

Headspace access

Learn & development programs

On-demand courses

Job summary

Leidos Australia is seeking a software engineering professional to join our collaborative team focused on monitoring and observability. The role involves building and operating enterprise monitoring solutions using Elastic Stack, alongside senior engineers and architects to improve system visibility and incident response.

You will develop monitoring configurations, dashboards and automation, and contribute to documentation and continuous improvements across applications, infrastructure, and

Qualifications

• Experience with scripting and automation (Python/PowerShell/JavaScript).
• Understanding of operating systems, networking, virtual machines, containers or cloud services.
• Familiarity with relational or non-relational databases and basic performance concepts.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain monitoring configurations and integrations that collect logs, metrics, traces and events.
• Build and enhance Kibana dashboards, visualisations, alerts and reports for proactive monitoring.
• Create scripts and automation to streamline monitoring deployment and configuration management.
• Contribute to technical documentation, engineering reviews and continuous improvements in monitoring coverage.

Skills

Scripting & automation

Operating systems

Containers & Cloud

Databases basics

Communication skills

Tools

Elasticsearch/Kibana

Git & CI/CD

Terraform/Ansible

Job description

Leidos Australia is seeking a software engineering professional to join our collaborative team focused on monitoring and observability. The role involves building and operating enterprise monitoring solutions using Elastic Stack, alongside senior engineers and architects to improve system visibility and incident response.

You will develop monitoring configurations, dashboards and automation, and contribute to documentation and continuous improvements across applications, infrastructure, and