Apply: Site Reliability Engineer – Elastic & Linux

Reference: BH-184951
Must be an Australian Citizen or Permanent Resident.

Title: Observability Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer – Elastic & Linux

Type: Permanent
Hybrid: 2 days in office - 3 days from home -1 day in Kogarah (Wednesday) and the other in either Parramatta or Sydney CBD
Salary: $150,000 - $165,000 + super
Work Type: On-prem, hands-on

 
The Role

A hands-on Observability Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer – Elastic & Linux is needed to support and enhance an enterprise-grade Elastic Stack environment.
You’ll ensure full-stack visibility across infrastructure and applications to enable proactive monitoring, anomaly detection, and system reliability.
This is a highly technical, “under-the-hood” engineering role - ideal for someone who enjoys building, optimising, and maintaining complex observability platforms rather than simply consuming dashboards.

Technical Must-Haves
  • Elastic Stack expertise (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Beats, APM) – essential
  • Linux Administration: 5+ years at admin level
  • IT Experience: 10+ years (or 7–8 if strong Elastic experience)
  • Observability experience: logs, metrics, traces, SLIs/SLOs
  • Hands-on SME: strong technical operator, not just architectural
 
Key Responsibilities
  • Build, maintain and optimise the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Beats, APM)
  • Design and manage data ingestion pipelines — parsing, enrichment, and indexing at scale
  • Perform upgrades, health checks, troubleshooting and platform tuning across on-prem environments
  • Develop custom Kibana dashboards, alerting, and visualisations aligned with SLIs/SLOs
  • Support incident response and post-mortem analysis with actionable insights
  • Collaborate closely with senior architects and engineers within observability and infrastructure teams
 
About You
  • 10+ years’ IT experience (or 7–8 with strong, direct Elastic experience)
  • 5+ years of Linux administration at system-admin level
  • Proven Elastic Stack expertise - cluster setup, upgrades, performance tuning
  • Strong understanding of observability concepts: logs, metrics, traces, SLIs/SLOs
  • Hands-on SME mindset with solid troubleshooting and automation skills
 
Desirable:
  • Experience with OTEL, CI/CD, or containerised environments
  • Basic scripting (Python, Bash)
  • Familiarity with ITIL and change-control environments
 Must be an Australian Citizen or Permanent Resident.
Company Background:

Ethos BeathChapman (EBC) is a global group of executive recruitment experts in Australia, Asia and EMEA, with a broader network beyond. We connect exceptional people to exceptional companies.

EBC’s mid-sized agility and solutions-focused approach enables us to flex where traditional recruitment agencies have failed, and scale beyond the reach of boutiques. Our multidisciplinary expertise covers corporate and specialised functions across Finance, Technology, Commerce and Government recruitment markets, among others.

Established 2005 in Sydney, EBC today has six offices worldwide in Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Netherlands and the UK. Part of the Nikkei-listed Will Group, Inc, we own Quay Appointments and our staffing and managed solutions specialists, CONNECT.

Let’s connect, and make exceptional happen, together: www.ethosbc.com

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