Observability Engineer
- Halifax, NS, Canada
Full-time
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Observability Engineer | Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos, Loki
Role Description: Observability Engineer
Enterprise Kubernetes Platform | Financial Services
ABOUT THE ROLE
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 YOU’LL 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 efficiency, 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
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Responsibilities
Own and maintain an enterprise observability stack across more than 50 production Kubernetes clusters, including metrics, logging, dashboards, and alerting. Build and optimize monitoring infrastructure, multi-cluster metrics aggregation, long-term storage, and intelligent monitoring capabilities across multiple environments and datacenters.
Requirements
The role calls for mid-to-senior-level experience and deep technical expertise in enterprise observability tools, especially Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos, Loki, and Kubernetes. It also requires the ability to manage observability infrastructure using GitOps and infrastructure as code, and to develop scalable monitoring, alerting, and dashboard solutions.
Skills
- Kubernetes
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Thanos
- Loki
- Observability
- Metrics Monitoring
- Alerting
- GitOps
- Infrastructure as Code
- Cloud Object Storage
- Metrics Federation
- Dashboard Development
- Distributed Systems
- AI/ML Monitoring
- Kubernetes Platform Engineering
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Categories
- Technology
- Software
- Engineering
- Data & Analytics
- Finance & Accounting
Keywords
- Observability
- Kubernetes
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Thanos
- Loki
- Metrics
- Logging
- Tracing
- Alerting
- GitOps
- Infrastructure as Code
- Cloud Object Storage
- ServiceMonitors
- PodMonitors
- Metrics Federation
- Metrics Cardinality
- Recording Rules
- SLI Calculations
- Dashboards
- Distributed Architecture
- Multi-Cluster Monitoring
- AI/ML
- Predictive Alerting
- Self-Healing Infrastructure
- Financial Services
- Enterprise Kubernetes Platform
- Disaster Recovery