Senior Platform Engineer - Grafana Observability (Hybrid)

Nine

Sydney

Hybrid

AUD 150,000 - 210,000

Full time

5 days ago
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Job summary

Nine is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer who specialises in Observability, focusing on the Grafana stack within Kubernetes. You will own the observability platform lifecycle, driving monitoring, logging, tracing and performance improvements across cloud and on‑prem environments.

Join a team that values innovation, mentorship and flexible work options, with strong emphasis on security, reliability and multi‑tenant scalability.

Qualifications

  • 4+ years in platform engineering or cloud infrastructure.
  • Hands-on Grafana ecosystem experience including Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Prometheus.
  • Proven ability to implement OpenTelemetry instrumentation and observability pipelines.

Responsibilities

  • Architect, implement, and manage observability stack in Kubernetes.
  • Instrument code with OpenTelemetry and manage related tooling.
  • Ensure coverage across microservices and multi-tenant clusters with reliable scaling.
  • Build dashboards, alerts, and incident response workflows.
  • Automate observability infra with Terraform and Helm, integrating CI/CD.
  • Collaborate across teams for hybrid/cloud integration and security governance.
  • Mentor engineers on instrumentation and monitoring best practices.

Skills

Grafana stack
Kubernetes
OpenTelemetry
Terraform
CI/CD tooling
Go/Python/Node

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related

Tools

Prometheus
Loki
Tempo
Mimir
Jenkins
GitLab CI
Helm
Terraform
New Relic
Docker

Job description

Nine is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer who specialises in Observability, focusing on the Grafana stack within Kubernetes. You will own the observability platform lifecycle, driving monitoring, logging, tracing and performance improvements across cloud and on‑prem environments.

Join a team that values innovation, mentorship and flexible work options, with strong emphasis on security, reliability and multi‑tenant scalability.

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