Observability Engineer (Splunk + Dynatrace)

CareCone Group; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

CareCone Group in Sydney is seeking an Observability Engineer to optimize enterprise observability platforms, with a focus on Splunk and Dynatrace. You will help engineering and support teams onboard services, build dashboards, and tune alerts for reliable, actionable visibility.

You will act as a trusted advisor, developing SPL searches, configuring thresholds, and delivering education sessions to squads so they can use dashboards effectively and reduce incident noise.

Qualifications

• Strong SPL query development skills.
• Experience configuring alerts and reports.
• Experience with Application Performance Monitoring (APM).
• Consultation on synthetic monitoring aspects.
• Understanding of web applications, APIs, middleware, and infrastructure components.

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 and reduce alert noise.
• Define thresholds and notification channels.
• Develop Splunk searches, reports, and queries.
• Provide education sessions to enable squads to use dashboards and alerts effectively.

Skills

SPL query development

Alert configuration

APM experience

Synthetic monitoring guidance

Web app / API knowledge

Tools

Splunk

Dynatrace

Job description

Observability Engineer (Splunk + Dynatrace)

Role: Observability Engineer (Splunk + Dynatrace)

Location: Sydney

Fulltime (Permanent)

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.

Key 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 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.

Skills required

• Strong SPL query development skills.
• Experience configuring alerts and reports.
• Experience with Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
• Can provide consultation to teams on synthetic monitoring aspects
• Understanding of web applications, APIs, middleware, and infrastructure components