Senior Grafana Platform Engineer - Observability & Kubernetes

Nine; North Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

18 weeks paid parental leave

Employee Exclusives program

Digital newspaper subscription

Stan subscription

Job summary

Nine in Australia is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer specializing in observability. You will manage the Grafana stack on Kubernetes, implement OpenTelemetry, and ensure robust monitoring across multi-cloud environments.

We value 4+ years in platform engineering, IaC with Terraform/Helm, and experience with SaaS observability like New Relic. Hybrid work options apply; join a team delivering high-performance infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in platform engineering or cloud infrastructure management.
• Hands-on with Grafana stack: Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Mimir, Tempo.
• Kubernetes and Docker for containerised apps.
• OpenTelemetry instrumentation and observability pipelines.
• Terraform and Helm for IaC; CI/CD tooling experience.

Responsibilities

• Architect, implement and manage observability stack in Kubernetes.
• Instrument applications with OpenTelemetry and manage collectors.
• Ensure monitoring, logging and tracing coverage across microservices.
• Create dashboards, alerts and automated incident response workflows.
• Automate infrastructure with Terraform/Helm; cloud integrations.

Job description

Nine in Australia is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer specializing in observability. You will manage the Grafana stack on Kubernetes, implement OpenTelemetry, and ensure robust monitoring across multi-cloud environments.

We value 4+ years in platform engineering, IaC with Terraform/Helm, and experience with SaaS observability like New Relic. Hybrid work options apply; join a team delivering high-performance infrastructure.