OBSERVABILITY ENGINEER
- Halifax, NS, Canada
Full-time
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Role: OBSERVABILITY ENGINEER
Location: Halifax, NS
Duration: Long Term Contract
Job Description:
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
- Design, deploy, and maintain enterprise-scale observability infrastructure including Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos, Loki, and modern collection agents
- Manage observability deployments using GitOps principles and infrastructures 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 Service Monitors, Pod Monitors for automated metrics collection
- Develop rules for intelligent alerting with minimal false positives
- Configure multi-cluster metrics federation and aggregation
- Optimize metrics cardinality, storage deficiency, and query performance.
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Responsibilities
Own and maintain the observability stack across more than 50 production Kubernetes clusters, including metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting infrastructure. Design multi-cluster monitoring and storage solutions, maintain deployments across environments, and improve reliability through intelligent alerting and emerging AI/ML capabilities.
Requirements
The role calls for an experienced observability engineer with deep expertise in modern observability tools and Kubernetes environments. Responsibilities indicate experience with Prometheus-based monitoring, GitOps and infrastructure as code, distributed observability, metrics storage and federation, and performance optimization.
Skills
- Observability
- Kubernetes
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Thanos
- Loki
- Metrics Monitoring
- Logging
- Distributed Tracing
- Alerting
- GitOps
- Infrastructure as Code
- Cloud Object Storage
- Metrics Federation
- Metrics Cardinality Optimization
- Query Performance Optimization
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- Technology
- Software
- Engineering
Keywords
- Enterprise Kubernetes Platform
- Kubernetes
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Thanos
- Loki
- Observability
- Metrics
- Logging
- Distributed Tracing
- Alerting
- GitOps
- Infrastructure as Code
- Cloud Object Storage
- Multi-Cluster Metrics Federation
- Metrics Aggregation
- Service Monitors
- Pod Monitors
- Alerting Rules
- Metrics Cardinality
- Query Performance
- AI/ML
- Predictive Alerting
- Self-Healing Infrastructure
- Production Environments
- Disaster Recovery
- Multi-Datacenter Architecture
- Cloud Providers
- Financial Services