Senior Observability Engineer: OTEL & Elastic Migration Lead

Westpac; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 150.000 - 230.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Mortgage discounts

Flexible work arrangements

Learning & development

Community volunteering

Zusammenfassung

Westpac is seeking a senior technical leader to drive the enterprise transition from AppDynamics to Elastic Observability using OpenTelemetry. You will define instrumentation standards, build scalable telemetry pipelines and guide SRE adoption, with automation to improve reliability and scalability.

You will mentor engineering and SRE teams, implement automated checks, and decommission legacy tooling safely. Superior communication across a large bank is essential for success.

Qualifikationen

• 5-10 years deep experience with AppDynamics APM migration and exit planning.
• Expert OpenTelemetry instrumentation and collector engineering.
• Advanced Elastic Observability (APM, traces, logs, metrics).
• Deep knowledge of Kibana for dashboard creation.
• ESQL query language for Elasticsearch data search, filter, transform, and analysis.
• Hands-on automation using Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, APIs, and scripting.
• SRE practices including SLIs, SLOs, incident diagnostics; governance and risk management.
• Experience building Agentic AI capability.
• Excellent communication and collaboration across a large enterprise.

Aufgaben

• Lead end-to-end migration from AppDynamics to Elastic using OTEL.
• Define and implement OTEL-first instrumentation standards and telemetry pipelines.
• Drive adoption of SRE practices with SLI/SLO-based monitoring and alerting.
• Automate deployment, configuration and validation of OTEL collectors and CI/CD observability checks.
• Enable safe decommissioning of legacy AppDynamics tooling, agents and licences.
• Improve platform reliability, scalability and self-service observability through automation.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineering and SRE teams; produce runbooks and assets to support adoption.

Kenntnisse

AppDynamics

OpenTelemetry

Elastic Observability

Kibana

ESQL

IaC

CI/CD

SRE

Agentic AI

Communication

Tools

Kibana

Elastic Observability

Jobbeschreibung

Westpac is seeking a senior technical leader to drive the enterprise transition from AppDynamics to Elastic Observability using OpenTelemetry. You will define instrumentation standards, build scalable telemetry pipelines and guide SRE adoption, with automation to improve reliability and scalability.

You will mentor engineering and SRE teams, implement automated checks, and decommission legacy tooling safely. Superior communication across a large bank is essential for success.