HUB24 leads the wealth industry as the best provider of integrated platform, technology and data solutions. At HUB24, we know the smartest investments start with our people. We are innovative and ambitious, and we move fast.
At HUB24, we empower our employees to bring their ideas and creativity to work. Rather than getting bogged down in bureaucracy and red tape, we build a culture that supports our team members to have a real impact on our business and the success of our customers.
HUB24 Limited is a company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX: HUB)
THE HUB24 STORY
We think creatively and we’re not constrained by traditional thinking or barriers to success. We’re led by experts, realists with ideas, grounded in commercial reality who are bold enough to visualise the future a little differently and to advocate for what matters to our clients. We are here to lead change and are committed to empowering better financial futures for more Australians.
Benefits and Life at HUB24
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Job Summary:
The Principal Observability Engineer is responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of HUB24’s core systems by establishing and championing world‑class observability practices. This role blends deep expertise across systems engineering, platform operations, and tooling to enable teams to proactively detect issues, optimise performance, and build resilient platforms. Acting as the key bridge between Engineering, Support, DevOps, Network, and Product, the Principal Observability Engineer drives alignment, shapes the observability strategy, and leads the resolution of complex infrastructure challenges that directly impact system health and customer experience.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the design, development, and deployment of AIOps and observability platforms (metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerts).
- Develop and drive the observability and AIOps technology roadmap aligned to business goals.
- Establish organisational standards, frameworks, and best practices for observability.
- Partner with Engineering, Support, SRE, and DevOps teams to define and monitor key performance indicators (latency, traffic, errors, saturation).
- Guide ongoing optimisation of systems and keep observability practices aligned with modern trends.
- Build scalable, reliable distributed systems capable of handling high‑traffic and complex workloads.
- Implement ML models for anomaly detection, forecasting, and root‑cause analysis.
- Handle large volumes of telemetry data while ensuring data security, quality, and compliance.
- Identify automation opportunities and build auto‑remediation for recurring issues.
- Work closely with cross‑functional teams to understand and meet observability needs.
- Provide peer reviews focused on scalability, security, performance, and software correctness.
- Contribute to unified observability across cloud, network, compute, storage, OS, security, applications, and SaaS platforms.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 10–15 years in software engineering, DevOps, SRE, or platform operations roles.
- Strong experience with observability tools (e.g., Dynatrace, Sumo Logic, OpenTelemetry).
- Experience building and managing large‑scale observability platforms leveraging LLMs and ML.
- Proven experience delivering end‑to‑end observability architectures.
- Experience with monitoring cloud environments and building scalable telemetry pipelines.
- Skilled in Kubernetes, Docker, Harness, and microservices‑based architectures.
- Deep understanding of observability for large cloud infrastructure and networking.
- Experience creating unified cloud observability across network, compute, power, OS, storage, security, applications, and SaaS.
- Demonstrated use of ML and Generative AI for predictive monitoring, incident diagnosis, correlation, and summarisation.
- Proficiency with AI/ML and generative/agentic AI frameworks.
- Experience designing and implementing auto‑healing workflows using tools like Ansible.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to collaborate and influence stakeholders at all organisational levels.
- Strong capability to articulate insights, analysis, and recommendations.
The Recruitment Process
Acknowledgement email once your application has been submitted.
Our Talent team will start reviewing your application. If unsuccessful, you will be notified.
If your application progresses to the next stage, our Talent team will be in touch to discuss your alignment with the role.
If you’re a person with an impairment or disability, this is an opportunity to share with us any accessibility requirements that you may have for the role.
Should you require any accommodations to the recruitment process, please email [email protected], and one of our team will contact you.
Interviews can happen virtually or face-to-face with the hiring manager or other members of the broader team. Depending on the role, there may be more than two interviews.
Communication of outcomes to successful and unsuccessful candidates and feedback provided.
*As part of our process, a police check will be conducted on all successful candidates*. Further details on our HUB24 Group Recruitment Privacy Collection notice can be found here.
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HUB24 is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where diverse perspectives are valued and every individual is treated with respect. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disabilities, people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities, and people of all gender identities and sexual orientations. If you require adjustments to the recruitment process or have accessibility requirements, please let us know – we’re here to support you
