# Observability Engineer

What’s the role? As an Observability Engineer, you will play a key hands-on role in transitioning Westpac’s enterprise observability capability from AppDynamics to Elastic Observability, using OpenTelemetry as the standard for telemetry collection and instrumentation. You will help shape and execute the technical approach for vendor decoupling, rebuild and enhance existing observability use cases in Elastic, and introduce automation across deployment, validation and decommissioning activities. You will also embed Site Reliability Engineering practices by moving from traditional health-rule monitoring towards SLI and SLO-based observability and alerting. Working across a large and complex enterprise environment, you will provide technical leadership, develop migration runbooks and self-service capabilities, and help improve the reliability, scalability and operational effectiveness of Westpac’s observability platforms. Key responsibilities will include: Decomposing existing AppDynamics implementations and rebuilding the required APM, logging, metrics and tracing use cases in Elastic Observability. Implementing OpenTelemetry collectors and automating their deployment, configuration a

- **Id**: 3997076
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/westpac-observability-engineer>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Kogarah, Australia
- **Countries**: AU
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T00:28:24Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T07:50:30Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3968
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Flexible schedule
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Commercial & Retail Banks, Business & SME Lending

## Company

- **Id**: 1766325
- **Name**: Westpac
- **Domain**: westpac.com.au
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/westpac-com-au>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Oracle

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 100
- **Open postings**: 3
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 14
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Technologies

- **AppDynamics** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Incident Management** — Optional: no
- **OpenTelemetry** — Optional: no
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T01:42:11Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 14
- **Reasons**: conf:5, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

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