Observability Engineer – Elastic Stack & Monitoring

Leidos; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flex Your Way

Wellbeing programs

Learning & Development

Impactful work

Job summary

Leidos Australia is seeking a developer to design, build and operate enterprise monitoring and observability solutions using the Elastic Stack. You will work with senior engineers to improve system visibility, incident investigation and operational resilience across apps, infra and cloud environments.

You will develop monitoring configurations, dashboards and automation to streamline deployment and support proactive decision-making, contributing to documentation and continuous improvement in

Qualifications

• Knowledge of software engineering principles, scripting and system integration concepts.
• Experience developing or maintaining scripts and automation using Python, PowerShell, JavaScript or a comparable language.
• Understanding of operating systems, networking, virtual machines, containers or cloud services.
• Awareness of relational or non-relational databases and foundational database performance concepts.
• Ability to analyse system behaviour, investigate technical issues and contribute to resolution activities.
• Ability to collaborate with software engineers, platform teams, database administrators and operational stakeholders.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to contribute to technical documentation and knowledge sharing.
• Awareness of security, compliance and operational resilience in enterprise environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain monitoring configurations and integrations that collect logs, metrics, traces and events from enterprise systems.
• Build and enhance Kibana dashboards, visualisations, alerts and reports that support proactive monitoring, performance analysis and operational decision-making.
• Create scripts and automation that streamline monitoring deployment, configuration management and recurring operational activities.
• Use observability data to support troubleshooting and root-cause analysis, while contributing to technical documentation, engineering reviews and continuous improvements in monitoring coverage and alert quality.

Skills

Scripting

System integration

Python

PowerShell

JavaScript

Operating systems

Networking

Virtual machines

Containers

Cloud services

Databases

Security awareness

Communication skills

Tools

Elasticsearch

Kibana

Logstash

Beats

Elastic Agent

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

Leidos Australia is seeking a developer to design, build and operate enterprise monitoring and observability solutions using the Elastic Stack. You will work with senior engineers to improve system visibility, incident investigation and operational resilience across apps, infra and cloud environments.

You will develop monitoring configurations, dashboards and automation to streamline deployment and support proactive decision-making, contributing to documentation and continuous improvement in