Senior Domain Expert – Observability, Alarm & Event Management

Telstra-Business-Technology-Centre-Perth-South; Australia; On-site; AUD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Telstra Corporation in Australia is seeking a Senior Domain Expert – Observability, Alarm & Event Management to own end-to-end observable architectures, drive automation and intelligent operations, and advance resilience across cloud, on-premises and containerised environments.

You will provide senior technical leadership for complex investigations, solution designs, platform upgrades and incident response, mentor engineers, and influence senior stakeholders to achieve scalable, secure

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in enterprise observability, monitoring, alarm and event management.
• Proven ability to lead root-cause analysis across applications and platforms.
• End-to-end ownership of large engineering initiatives with risk management.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and roadmaps for observability platforms across cloud and on-prem environments.
• Drive automation, orchestration and AIOps to improve operations.
• Mentor engineers and uplift capability through knowledge sharing.
• Influence senior stakeholders and governance decisions for complex technical outcomes.

Skills

Observability

Monitoring

Alarm & Event Management

Solution Architecture

AIOps

Kubernetes

Cloud/On-Prem

Tools

OpenText Operations Bridge Manager

Operations Orchestration

UCMDB

Discovery

Optic

AIOM

Kubernetes

Job description

Employment TypePermanentClosing Date5 Nov 2026 11:59pmJob TitleSenior Domain Expert – Observability, Alarm & Event ManagementJob SummaryWorking across Engineering, Operations, Product, Architecture, Security, business stakeholders and technology partners, you’ll take end-to-end technical ownership of complex outcomes and help evolve our observability capabilities through automation and intelligent operations.Job DescriptionWhat you’ll doProvide senior technical and solution architecture leadership across enterprise observability, monitoring, alarm and event management, discovery and configuration management.Lead complex technical investigations and root-cause analysis across applications, platforms, integrations and infrastructure.Shape technical designs and platform roadmaps, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, resilient and aligned with enterprise architecture standards.Take end-to-end technical ownership of initiatives from concept and design through implementation and operational acceptance, actively managing risks, dependencies and delivery impediments.Lead platform lifecycle, upgrades, resilience improvements, technical-debt reduction and modernisation across cloud, on-premises and containerised environments.Apply automation, orchestration, intelligent event correlation and Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) to improve observability and operational outcomes.Provide authoritative technical leadership during complex production incidents and turn lessons learnt into sustainable engineering improvements.Influence senior stakeholders and technology partners to align decisions and deliver complex technical outcomes.Strengthen Telstra-owned capability through architectural governance, reusable engineering practices, documentation, mentoring and knowledge transfer.About youYou’re an experienced engineer or technical specialist who can operate as a trusted technical authority in complex enterprise environments.You’ll bringDeep expertise in enterprise observability, monitoring, alarm and event management.Advanced engineering and troubleshooting capability across complex, distributed production environments.Experience in technical architecture, solution design, platform lifecycle management and operational resilience.Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical problems from root-cause analysis through to sustainable resolution.End-to-end ownership of significant engineering or technology initiatives, including technical risks, dependencies and operational acceptance.Strong capability in software or platform engineering, systems integration and production environments.The ability to translate complex engineering challenges into clear options, recommendations and outcomes.Strong stakeholder influence, including credibility with senior technical and business stakeholders.A track record of mentoring engineers, sharing specialist expertise and uplifting capability in others.Highly regardedOpenText Operations Bridge Manager, Operations Orchestration, UCMDB, Discovery, Optic, AIOM, or comparable enterprise observability technologies.Kubernetes and containerised production environments, across cloud and on-premises infrastructure.Automation, orchestration, AIOps, AI/ML or intelligent event correlation applied to operational use cases.Configuration management and discovery platforms.Working with multi-domain networks and engineering teams on complex technical issues.Major incident, problem management or production engineering environments.