Platform Engineer

6-month contract Observability Engineer role with a global enterprise organization working within their rapidly growing engineering team.

• 6-month contract Observability Engineer role
• Global enterprise organization
• Onsite work arrangement, with 4 days a week in office

What & Why:

As a result of investment in technology our global enterprise organization is looking to add an Observability Engineer to their engineering team. This role focuses on overseeing technology monitoring and observability solutions across the organization. Supporting a Technology department of over 1,200 engineers, you'll work as part of an enablement team that collaborates with vendors like Datadog and Splunk to drive observability maturity, establish best practices, and provide training and onboarding support. The position requires hands-on technical expertise in instrumenting Datadog (APM, Infrastructure, Serverless, RUM) and Splunk, helping application teams migrate to modern observability solutions while working closely with internal stakeholders and vendor TAMs to resolve implementation issues, improve documentation, streamline processes, and empower end users across the enterprise.

Who:

This client is one of the most recognizable Canadian brands, a true Vancouver success story who has expanded globally. They are well known for their corporate culture and has won major awards for their accomplishments. They have invested majorly in technology and have had an incredibly successful past few years, including a major strategic acquisition. They have an all-star leadership team who keeps you accountable and provides support while still affording you tremendous autonomy. They are located close to rapid transit in newly renovated offices in downtown Vancouver and have an in office work arrangement, 4 days a week in office.

You:

You will bring the following education, skills and experience to the role:

• 4+ years of hands-on experience with observability platforms, specifically Datadog (APM, Infrastructure, Serverless, RUM) and Splunk for logging
• 2+ years of experience creating rules and advanced logic for observability, including monitors, alerts, and log processing
• Experience implementing and configuring observability in Kubernetes, including Docker-based workloads and agent deployment across clusters
• Experience rolling out agent migrations and mass updates using Terraform or Ansible, plus familiarity with Edge Delta or similar observability pipelines for data optimization

Compensation:

This role pays between $60-70 per hour.

Next Steps:

If the sound of this opportunity excites you, and you’re confident that it’s a good fit for your experience and career goals, then we’d love to hear from you! Please send your updated resume to us by applying to this posting and one of our awesome team of recruiters will be in touch.