Senior Observability Engineer- (AppDynamics, Elastic, OTEL) - Major Bank
- Lead the migration from AppDynamics to Elastic Observability using OpenTelemetry.
- Drive adoption of SRE practices and improve platform reliability.
- Provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineering and SRE teams.
A major bank is seeking a Senior Observability Engineer (AppDynamics, Elastic, OTEL) to join their team on a permanent basis. This is a newly created role
You will lead the enterprise transition from AppDynamics to Elastic Observability using OpenTelemetry, driving modern observability practices, improving reliability and scalability, and ensuring a smooth migration through strong technical leadership, automation and alignment to SRE and cloud-native standards.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the end-to-end migration from AppDynamics to Elastic using OTEL, ensuring parity or improved observability outcomes
- Define and implement OTEL-first instrumentation standards and scalable telemetry pipelines
- Drive adoption of SRE practices, shifting towards SLI/SLO-based monitoring and alerting models
- Automate deployment, configuration and validation of OTEL collectors, Elastic assets and CI/CD observability checks
- Enable safe and automated decommissioning of legacy AppDynamics tooling, agents and licences
- Improve platform reliability, scalability and self-service observability through reusable patterns and automation
- Provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineering and SRE teams, producing runbooks and self-service assets to support adoption
Key Skills / Experience:
- 5-10 years deep experience with AppDynamics APM knowledge for migration and exit planning
- Expert Open Telemetry instrumentation and collector engineering
- Advanced Elastic Observability (APM, traces, logs, metrics, service maps)
- Deep knowledge of Kibana for dashboard creation
- ESQL Query writing language to search, filter, transform, and analyse data stored in Elasticsearch—especially logs, metrics, events, and security data.
- Hands-on automation using Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, APIs, and scripting
- SRE practices including SLIs, SLOs, and incident diagnostics Strong governance, cost optimisation, and risk management mindset
- Experience building Agentic AI capability
- Excellent communication skill and proven ability to collaborate across a large enterprise at all levels
If interested please respond ASAP
Consultant
gillian@bluefinresources.com.au
Reference number: BH-62763
Profession:ICTIT Infrastructure
Company: Bluefin Resources
Date posted: 31st Aug, 2026
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