Senior Splunk ITSI Observability Lead

Telstra; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance-related pay

Learning programs and development

Global presence across countries

Purchased annual leave scheme

Additional Telstra day off

30% off Telstra products and services

Toolkit provided (laptop + mobile)

Job summary

Telstra is seeking a Senior IT Domain Specialist with Splunk ITSI expertise to lead observability strategy and lifecycle management across Defence environments. You will drive architecture, data onboarding, and automation, building reliable monitoring and reporting capabilities to enable rapid issue detection and service assurance.

The role focuses on transitioning observability from external support to a sustainable internal capability, aligning with security accreditation and operational

Qualifications

• AGSVA NV2 Security Clearance
• 8+ years delivering/operating observability, monitoring or support platforms
• Splunk certifications across admin/architecture/ITSI desirable
• Experience in both platform delivery and production support
• Experience with monitoring design, dashboards, alerting and analytics
• Experience with integrations and complex service dependencies in production
• Agile and DevSecOps practices
• Exposure to secure or regulated environments such as Defence is desirable

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of Splunk and ITSI observability solutions across Defence environments
• Own observability architecture, service modelling standards and platform roadmap
• Design, develop and maintain ITSI services, KPIs, correlations, notable events and health views
• Lead data onboarding, source integration and monitoring uplift for improved visibility
• Build and optimise dashboards, alerts and reporting views for incident response and decision making
• Oversee monitoring coverage for critical integrations and interface health validation
• Drive automation of monitoring and validation processes to reduce manual effort
• Support transition of observability capability from external providers to internal teams

Job description

Telstra is seeking a Senior IT Domain Specialist with Splunk ITSI expertise to lead observability strategy and lifecycle management across Defence environments. You will drive architecture, data onboarding, and automation, building reliable monitoring and reporting capabilities to enable rapid issue detection and service assurance.

The role focuses on transitioning observability from external support to a sustainable internal capability, aligning with security accreditation and operational