OBSERVABILITY ENGINEER
- Halifax, NS, Canada
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Role: OBSERVABILITY Enigneer
Location: Halifax, NS – Hybrid Role
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Position Summary
We are seeking an experienced Observability Engineer to join our Enterprise Kubernetes Platform team at a leading financial services organization. You’ll own the complete observability stack across 50+ production Kubernetes clusters| providing metrics| logging| tracing| and alerting capabilities that ensure exceptional reliability and performance for mission-critical applications.
This role combines deep technical expertise in modern observability tools with emerging AI/ML capabilities to build intelligent monitoring solutions| predictive alerting| and self-healing infrastructure.
WHAT YOULL DO
OBSERVABILITY STACK OWNERSHIP
Design| deploy| and maintain enterprise-scale observability infrastructure including Prometheus| Grafana| Thanos| Loki| and modern collection agents
Manage observability deployments using GitOps principles and infrastructure as code
Implement long-term metrics storage solutions with cloud object storage
Maintain and upgrade observability components across development| QA| UAT| production| and DR environments
Configure distributed observability architecture spanning multiple datacenters and cloud providers
METRICS & MONITORING
Design and implement Prometheus monitoring strategies for Kubernetes infrastructure and containerized applications
Create ServiceMonitors| PodMonitors for automated metrics collection
Develop rules for intelligent alerting with minimal false positives
Configure multi-cluster metrics federation and aggregation
Optimize metrics cardinality| storage e_iciency| and query performance
Implement recording rules for pre-aggregated metrics and SLI calculations
DASHBOARDS & VISUALIZATION
Build comprehensive Grafana dashboards for infrastructure health| application performance| and business metrics
Create reusable dashboard templates and libraries for development teams
Implement dashboard-as-code
Configure multiple datasources
Design executive dashboards with SLO/SLI tracking and business KPIs
Implement role-based access control and multi-tenancy in Grafana
LOGGING INFRASTRUCTURE
Deploy and manage centralized logging solutions (Loki| ELK| Splunk| or similar)
Configure log collection agents (Promtail| Fluentd| FluentBit| Vector| etc.)
Design log retention policies balancing cost| compliance| and operational needs
Create LogQL/Lucene queries and log-base
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Responsibilities
Own and maintain the observability stack across more than 50 production Kubernetes clusters, including metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, dashboards, and long-term storage. Build and optimize multi-cluster monitoring and intelligent alerting solutions, and manage observability deployments across environments using GitOps and infrastructure as code.
Requirements
The role seeks an experienced, mid-to-senior Observability Engineer with deep expertise in modern observability tools and Kubernetes platforms. The posting emphasizes experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos, Loki, logging systems, GitOps, infrastructure as code, and large-scale monitoring; no education requirement is stated.
Skills
- Observability
- Kubernetes
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Thanos
- Loki
- GitOps
- Infrastructure as Code
- Metrics Monitoring
- Alerting
- Dashboard Development
- Distributed Tracing
- Centralized Logging
- LogQL
- Multi-Cluster Monitoring
- AI/ML Monitoring
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Categories
- Technology
- Software
- Engineering
Keywords
- Enterprise Kubernetes Platform
- Observability Stack
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Thanos
- Loki
- ELK
- Splunk
- Promtail
- Fluentd
- FluentBit
- Vector
- GitOps
- Infrastructure as Code
- Cloud Object Storage
- Metrics Federation
- Metrics Cardinality
- Recording Rules
- ServiceMonitors
- PodMonitors
- Dashboard as Code
- LogQL
- Lucene
- SLI
- SLO
- AI/ML
- Predictive Alerting
- Self-Healing Infrastructure
- Multi-Tenancy