Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Observability | OpenTelemetry

Profusion Group; Sydney; On-site; AUD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Profusion Group is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer focused on Observability and OpenTelemetry. You will drive the evolution of a cloud-native observability ecosystem across a large enterprise, migrating from legacy APM tools to modern, automation-first platforms.

You’ll shape monitoring standards, improve reliability, and lead engineering practices at scale. The role emphasizes design and implementation of telemetry pipelines, SRE fundamentals, and strong automation across IaC, CI/CD,

Qualifications

• Experience with AppDynamics or similar enterprise APM platforms.
• Deep expertise in OpenTelemetry instrumentation and collector engineering.
• Hands-on experience with Elastic Observability, Elasticsearch, Kibana, and ESQL.
• Strong automation skills across IaC, CI/CD, scripting, and APIs.
• Solid understanding of SRE principles and incident management.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Exposure to AI-driven engineering or Agentic AI technologies is highly regarded.

Responsibilities

• Lead the migration from legacy APM to Elastic Observability.
• Design and implement OpenTelemetry instrumentation standards and telemetry pipelines.
• Champion SRE practices, including SLI/SLO-driven monitoring and alerting.
• Build automation across observability deployments using IaC, APIs, scripting, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Improve platform reliability, scalability, and self-service capabilities.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across observability and platform initiatives.

Skills

OpenTelemetry

SLI/SLO monitoring

SRE practices

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Elastic Observability

Elasticsearch

Kibana

ESQL

AppDynamics

CI/CD tooling

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Observability | OpenTelemetry

Lead a major enterprise observability transformation.

Are you passionate about OpenTelemetry, modern observability, and platform engineering at scale? We're looking for a Senior SRE to drive the evolution of a large-scale observability ecosystem, helping move from legacy APM tooling to a cloud-native, automation-first future.

This is a high-impact role where you'll shape monitoring standards, influence engineering practices, and help improve reliability across a complex enterprise environment.

What You'll Do

• Lead the migration from legacy application performance monitoring platforms to Elastic Observability.
• Design and implement OpenTelemetry instrumentation standards and telemetry pipelines.
• Champion Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, including SLI/SLO-driven monitoring and alerting.
• Build automation across observability deployments using Infrastructure as Code, APIs, scripting, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Improve platform reliability, scalability, and self-service capabilities through engineering best practices.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across observability and platform initiatives.

Senior SRE - Observability

Lead a major enterprise observability transformation.

Are you passionate about OpenTelemetry, modern observability, and platform engineering at scale? We're looking for a Senior SRE to drive the evolution of a large-scale observability ecosystem, helping move from legacy APM tooling to a cloud-native, automation-first future.

This is a high-impact role where you'll shape monitoring standards, influence engineering practices, and help improve reliability across a complex enterprise environment.

What You'll Do

• Lead the migration from legacy application performance monitoring platforms to Elastic Observability.
• Design and implement OpenTelemetry instrumentation standards and telemetry pipelines.
• Champion Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, including SLI/SLO-driven monitoring and alerting.
• Build automation across observability deployments using Infrastructure as Code, APIs, scripting, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Improve platform reliability, scalability, and self-service capabilities through engineering best practices.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across observability and platform initiatives.

What You’ll Bring

• Strong experience with AppDynamics or similar enterprise APM platforms
• Deep expertise in OpenTelemetry, instrumentation, and collector engineering
• Hands-on experience with Elastic Observability, Elasticsearch, Kibana, and ESQL
• Strong automation skills across Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, scripting, and APIs
• Solid understanding of SRE principles, operational excellence, and incident management
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement and communication skills
• Exposure to AI-driven engineering or Agentic AI technologies is highly regarded
• Why Apply? You'll join a team that’s investing heavily in modern engineering practices, automation, and cloud-native technologies.

This is your opportunity to influence observability strategy, work with cutting-edge tooling, and leave a lasting impact on how reliability is delivered across a large enterprise.

If you're an observability specialist who enjoys solving complex engineering problems and driving meaningful technical change, we'd love to hear from you.
Additional information

• Senior SRE role in an Enterprise Financial Services Environment
• AppDynamics, OpenTelemerty, Elastic, IaC, CI/CD
• Champion SRE practices including SLI/SLO