Senior Splunk ITSI Observability Architect (Defence)

Telstra Corporation; Australia; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance-related pay

Access to learning programs

Global presence across 22 countries

Purchased annual leave

Telstra day off

Telstra product discount (30%)

Toolkit provided (laptop + mobile)

Job summary

Telstra is seeking a Senior IT Domain Specialist to own Splunk ITSI observability across Defence environments. You will design, implement and operate trusted monitoring, dashboards and automation to enable proactive service management and secure, resilient platforms.

You will drive insourcing, lifecycle ownership and collaboration with engineering, security and operations teams while aligning observability with accreditation and business outcomes in a highly regulated setting.

Qualifications

• Eight+ years delivering observability, monitoring or support platforms.
• Experience with Splunk and ITSI in regulated environments.
• Experience with Agile and DevSecOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of Splunk ITSI observability solutions across Defence environments.
• Own observability architecture, service modelling standards and platform roadmap.
• Design, develop and maintain ITSI services, KPIs, correlation searches and health views.
• Lead data onboarding, source integration and monitoring uplift for visibility across platforms.
• Build and optimise dashboards, alerts and reporting views for incident response and service assurance.
• Oversee monitoring coverage for critical integrations and interface health.

Skills

Splunk ITSI service modelling

Observability design

Data onboarding

Correlation searches

Dashboard development

Automation scripting

DevSecOps practices

Stakeholder engagement

Coaching & mentoring

Platform lifecycle

Education

AGSVA NV2 Security Clearance

Tools

Splunk ITSI

Splunk Enterprise

Job description

Telstra is seeking a Senior IT Domain Specialist to own Splunk ITSI observability across Defence environments. You will design, implement and operate trusted monitoring, dashboards and automation to enable proactive service management and secure, resilient platforms.

You will drive insourcing, lifecycle ownership and collaboration with engineering, security and operations teams while aligning observability with accreditation and business outcomes in a highly regulated setting.