Senior Observability Engineer — Telemetry & SRE Leadership

Bluefin Resources; Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Bluefin Resources is seeking a Senior Observability Engineer to define telemetry standards, support data ingestion pipelines, and ensure high data quality for downstream AiOps. You will mentor the observability engineering team and help shape the enterprise observability strategy in a major Australian organisation.

The role emphasizes scaling telemetry, enforcing metrics and tracing standards, and reviewing IaC and instrumentation libraries across distributed environments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, DevSecOps or Observability with proven design/scaling of telemetry pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design and scale the enterprise observability infrastructure, ensuring high availability and resilience of telemetry ingestion pipelines
• Define and enforce tagging, tracing, and metrics standards across environments
• Act as escalation point and mentor for offshore observability engineers, conducting code reviews for IaC and instrumentation libraries

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering

Observability

Telemetry & OTel

APM tooling (Dynatrace, Datadog)

IaC & CI/CD (GitHub Actions)

Python coding

Tools

GitHub Actions

Job description

Bluefin Resources is seeking a Senior Observability Engineer to define telemetry standards, support data ingestion pipelines, and ensure high data quality for downstream AiOps. You will mentor the observability engineering team and help shape the enterprise observability strategy in a major Australian organisation.

The role emphasizes scaling telemetry, enforcing metrics and tracing standards, and reviewing IaC and instrumentation libraries across distributed environments.