Senior SRE — 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

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,