Engineering Manager, Observability

2 days ago

North Sydney, Australia Nine Full time

**What you’ll do**:

- Lead and manage a team of Observability engineers within the Platform Engineering domain.
- Define and execute the strategy and roadmap for Observability across Nine, covering logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.
- Ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of Observability platforms and tools.
- Drive the adoption of Observability best practices and educate development teams on their effective use
- Collaborate with other engineering managers and product teams to integrate Observability into the software development lifecycle.
- Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies in Observability
- Manage vendor relationships and evaluate new tools and solutions.
- Contribute to the overall architecture and design of Nine's platform infrastructure.

**People leader responsibilities**
- Provide clear direction, set performance expectations, and offer constructive feedback to team members
- Foster a culture of continuous learning and growth within the team.
- Identify and nurture talent, providing opportunities for career development.
- Manage team resourcing, recruitment, and retention.
- Resolve conflicts and mediate team issues.
- Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion within the team.
- Ensure team well-being and a healthy work-life balance.

**Qualifications**:
**What you’ll bring**:

- Proven experience in software engineering management, leading teams focused on observability, SRE, or platform engineering
- Strong technical background in observability principles, tools (e.g., Prometheus,Grafana, ELK stack, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry or similar), and best practices.
- The ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences
- Experience with agile development methodologies

**Additional Information**:
**How we work**

At Nine, our flexible work options vary by role and team. Depending on the position, this may include flexible hours, hybrid work, or part-time arrangements. We welcome discussing your flexibility needs during the hiring process - just ask the Talent Acquisition team.

**Our employee benefits include**:

- 18 weeks paid parental leave with no distinction between primary and secondary carers.
- Access to 'Employee Exclusives' program - a way of getting closer to our incredible brands, offering unique experiences, behind-the-scenes access, and awesome perks.
- Digital newspaper subscription to our mastheads.
- Annual gift voucher for Stan subscription.

**Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion**:
We're committed to a safe, respectful and inclusive Nine. From day one, you'll be encouraged to bring your whole self to work and will be supported to perform at your best.

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