Observability Engineer – Elastic Stack & Monitoring

Leidos Australia; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

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Job summary

Leidos Australia is seeking a software engineer focused on monitoring and observability. You will join a collaborative engineering environment to build and operate enterprise monitoring and observability solutions using the Elastic Stack, improving system visibility, incident investigation and operational resilience across applications, infrastructure, databases and cloud environments.

Develop and maintain monitoring configurations, dashboards and automation; apply scripting, work with OS,

Qualifications

• Knowledge of software engineering principles and scripting.
• Experience with Python/PowerShell/JavaScript.
• Understanding of OS, networking, VMs, containers or cloud.
• Familiar with relational or non-relational databases.
• Ability to analyse system behaviour and resolve issues.
• Ability to collaborate with engineers and operations.
• Clear written and verbal communication for documentation.
• Awareness of security and compliance 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

Software engineering

Scripting

System integration

Python

PowerShell

JavaScript

Operating systems

Networking

Databases

Problem analysis

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Terraform

Ansible

Prometheus

Grafana

Dynatrace

Splunk

AppDynamics

Job description

Leidos Australia is seeking a software engineer focused on monitoring and observability. You will join a collaborative engineering environment to build and operate enterprise monitoring and observability solutions using the Elastic Stack, improving system visibility, incident investigation and operational resilience across applications, infrastructure, databases and cloud environments.

Develop and maintain monitoring configurations, dashboards and automation; apply scripting, work with OS,