Observability Platform Consultant (Datadog/AWS)
- St. John's, NL, Canada
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CGI is seeking an experienced Observability Platform Consultant to help improve the reliability, monitoring, and operational visibility of critical production services. In this hands-on role, you will work closely with platform and application development teams to implement observability solutions using Datadog, OpenTelemetry, AWS, Terraform, and Python. You will focus on identifying and resolving monitoring gaps, improving alerting and incident response, and developing reusable automation that enables teams to adopt consistent observability practices. This opportunity is ideal for a technical professional who enjoys solving complex production challenges, building developer tools, and improving platform reliability through automation and AI-assisted development.
This is a full-time permanent opportunity based in one of CGI's Atlantic Canada offices, including Halifax, NS; Moncton or Fredericton, NB; St. John's, NL; or Stratford, PEI. Candidates must be currently located in Atlantic Canada or willing to relocate. This role follows a hybrid work model requiring three days per week onsite.
This is a full-time permanent opportunity based in one of CGI's Atlantic Canada offices, including Halifax, NS; Moncton or Fredericton, NB; St. John's, NL; or Stratford, PEI. Candidates must be currently located in Atlantic Canada or willing to relocate. This role follows a hybrid work model requiring three days per week onsite.
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Responsibilities
The Observability Platform Consultant at CGI will set up monitoring and alerting for live systems and work with platform and application teams. They will also build automation tools so teams can follow the same observability practices.
Requirements
Candidates need experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Datadog and OpenTelemetry on AWS, plus infrastructure as code with Terraform and scripting in Python. They must be located in Atlantic Canada or willing to relocate there.
Skills
- Datadog
- OpenTelemetry
- AWS
- Terraform
- Python
- Observability
- Monitoring and alerting
- Incident response
- Infrastructure as code
- Automation
- Developer tooling
- Production troubleshooting
- Site reliability engineering
- Dashboards
- Logging and tracing
- Metrics
- AI-assisted development
- Cross-team collaboration
Categories
- Technology
- Software
- Consulting
- Data & Analytics
Keywords
- Datadog
- OpenTelemetry
- AWS
- Terraform
- Python
- observability
- monitoring
- alerting
- incident response
- platform reliability
- SRE
- infrastructure as code
- automation
- developer tools
- AI-assisted development
- cloud monitoring
- Atlantic Canada
- hybrid
- consultant
Seniority
Mid level
Tools
- Datadog
- OpenTelemetry
- AWS
- Terraform
- Python
Languages
- English