Senior Platform Engineer – Observability (Grafana)

About the role

Nine, Australia's largest locally owned media company, is looking for an experienced Senior Platform Engineer who specialises in observability, centred on the open-source Grafana stack. You will manage the lifecycle of the observability platform, providing robust monitoring, logging, tracing and profiling for applications running on Kubernetes, and help improve the observability pipeline so teams can monitor and optimise system performance.

Key responsibilities

• Architect, implement and manage an observability stack based on Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Mimir, Tempo and related technologies within Kubernetes.
• Implement OpenTelemetry in application codebases and manage OpenTelemetry tooling and collector services.
• Ensure comprehensive monitoring, logging and tracing coverage for microservices and Kubernetes clusters, and scale the platform for multi-tenancy and reliability.
• Build actionable dashboards, alerts and automated incident response workflows with development and platform teams.
• Automate observability infrastructure with Terraform, Helm and CI/CD pipelines.
• Integrate observability tooling across cloud environments (AWS, GCP) and on-premise infrastructure as required.
• Maintain security and compliance standards, focusing on auditability and data integrity.
• Support and mentor engineering teams in instrumentation, monitoring and root cause analysis.

Required profile

• 4+ years of experience in platform engineering or cloud infrastructure management.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, and/or relevant cloud certifications (e.g. AWS or GCP Architect tracks).
• Right to work and live in Australia; flexible work options (hours, hybrid, part-time) vary by role and team.

Required skills

• Hands-on experience with the Grafana ecosystem, including Mimir, Loki, Tempo and Prometheus.
• Kubernetes and Docker, and OpenTelemetry instrumentation and pipelines.
• Terraform and Helm; scripting in Go, Python, Node or Shell and CI/CD tools such as GitLab CI, Jenkins or TeamCity.
• Familiarity with SaaS observability platforms such as New Relic.
• Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure, networking and security in AWS or GCP.

What we offer

• 18 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Employee Exclusives program with brand experiences and perks.
• Digital newspaper subscription to the mastheads.
• Annual gift voucher for a Stan subscription.