Senior Observability Engineer - Hybrid, Scale Telemetry

Paxus; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Paxus is seeking a Senior Observability Engineer to join their technology team in Sydney. This hands-on senior role focuses on observability, monitoring, automation and reliability in a large, distributed environment.

You will collaborate with engineering, operations and AiOps to improve telemetry, system visibility and the reliability of critical services. The role requires 5+ years in Observability/SRE/DevOps and strong hands-on with Dynatrace/Datadog, OpenTelemetry, and Terraform.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Observability, SRE or DevOps engineering.
• Hands-on with Dynatrace, Datadog or similar APM/observability platforms.
• Strong knowledge of OpenTelemetry, metrics, logs and distributed tracing.
• Experience designing and scaling telemetry pipelines.
• Strong IaC and automation such as Terraform.
• Experience with CI/CD and monitoring-as-code.
• Strong Python or scripting experience.
• Experience with Azure or GCP cloud environments.
• Strong Kubernetes experience in monitoring/telemetry.
• Experience defining and implementing SLOs and SLIs.
• Strong understanding of reliability, availability and performance.

Responsibilities

• Design and scale enterprise observability and telemetry platforms.
• Develop and maintain monitoring, logging and tracing standards across apps and infra.
• Work with Dynatrace, Datadog, OpenTelemetry and PagerDuty.
• Design and implement SLOs and SLIs with engineering teams.
• Build and improve telemetry ingestion pipelines for high availability.
• Use IaC and CI/CD to automate observability and monitoring.
• Develop automation, integrations and tooling using Python or similar.
• Support observability across cloud and Kubernetes environments.
• Identify opportunities to optimise telemetry data, storage and licensing costs.
• Create dashboards and insights to understand system health and drive actions.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to other Observability Engineers.
• Act as escalation point for complex observability issues.

Skills

Observability

SRE/DevOps

Dynatrace/Datadog

OpenTelemetry

IaC (Terraform)

CI/CD

Python

Azure/GCP

Kubernetes monitoring

SLOs/SLIs

System reliability

Communication

Tools

Dynatrace

Datadog

OpenTelemetry

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Kubernetes monitoring

Job description

Paxus is seeking a Senior Observability Engineer to join their technology team in Sydney. This hands-on senior role focuses on observability, monitoring, automation and reliability in a large, distributed environment.

You will collaborate with engineering, operations and AiOps to improve telemetry, system visibility and the reliability of critical services. The role requires 5+ years in Observability/SRE/DevOps and strong hands-on with Dynatrace/Datadog, OpenTelemetry, and Terraform.