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Senior Observability Engineer

New Zealand · Job Posted June 09, 2026
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As a Senior Observability Engineer, you’ll lead the design and ongoing improvement of our enterprise observability platform. This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you’ll act as the authority for our Grafana Cloud ecosystem. You’ll work across Platform Engineering, CloudOps, DevSecOps, Infrastructure and Network teams to embed observability into platform design and enable reliable, scalable operations. You’ll also mentor others and drive consistency through standardisation, automation and best practice adoption across a complex hybrid environment. This is a fixed-term role for 12-months supporting a key project on delivering critical observability uplift.

Job Responsibility

  • Define and embed standards for monitoring, alerting, and dashboard design across teams
  • Drive the transition from legacy monitoring tools to modern, cloud-based platforms
  • Develop and manage data ingestion pipelines across cloud, infrastructure, and network environments
  • Build and maintain dashboards that provide meaningful operational and performance insights
  • Design alerting frameworks with clear routing, prioritisation and ITSM integration
  • Implement automation and code-driven configuration to improve consistency and reduce manual effort

Requirements

  • Deep hands-on experience with enterprise observability platforms (e.g. Grafana Cloud)
  • Strong Prometheus experience, including querying and alerting approaches
  • Experience implementing code-driven platform configuration (e.g. GitOps, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines)
  • Solid understanding of cloud environments across AWS and/or GCP
  • Exposure to Kubernetes and modern platform or infrastructure environments
  • Experience using scripting or infrastructure tooling to support scalable operations

What we offer

  • Flexible working
  • Additional paid parental leave
  • Free period products
  • Financial health checks
  • Southern Cross health insurance for you and your family after a qualifying period
  • Discounts at local gyms
  • Access to online wellbeing tools
  • Prayer and privacy room onsite
  • Continuous learning and professional growth
  • Access to our extensive online training library
  • Furry Friend Fridays
  • Monthly social events
  • Free carparking
  • In-house café
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