Cloud Operations Engineer â Monitoring Lead (9394)

Extreme Networks; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Extreme Networks is looking for a Cloud Operations Engineer Monitoring Lead to enhance their cloud monitoring strategy. Located in Thornhill, Toronto, this role involves designing and optimizing monitoring across AWS, Azure, and GCP, while ensuring system health and operational excellence. Ideal candidates will have a strong technical background and extensive experience in cloud operations.

Qualifications

• 8 years of experience in Cloud Operations, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering.
• Deep expertise with one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Proven experience in monitoring-focused roles.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and improvement of monitoring frameworks for cloud infrastructure.
• Evaluate and integrate monitoring tools to meet needs.
• Develop automation scripts for monitoring deployment and incident remediation.

Skills

Problem-solving

Analytical skills

Troubleshooting

Education

BS level technical degree

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Splunk

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

There has never been a better time to join Extreme with several acquisitions extending our portfolio and go to market strategy we have seen enormous opportunity and growth within the region.

Aside from being a Technology Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant we also adamantly promote an internal culture that truly embraces diversity inclusion and equality in the workplace. Having Diversity and Inclusion as part of our core values and beliefs were proud to foster an environment where every Extreme employee can thrive because of their differences not despite them.

Cloud Operations Engineer Monitoring Lead (Thornhill Toronto - Hybrid)

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Cloud Operations Engineer Monitoring Lead to join our growing Cloud Operations team. In this critical role you will be responsible for designing implementing and optimizing our comprehensive monitoring and alerting strategy across our cloud infrastructure and applications. You will drive proactive identification of issues ensure system health and contribute significantly to our operational excellence and reliability goals. Were looking for the best and the brightest A players who want to make a difference doing a job they love.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design implementation and continuous improvement of our end-to-end monitoring and alerting framework for cloud infrastructure (AWS Azure GCP) applications and services .
• Define key performance indicators (KPIs) service level indicators (SLIs) and service level objectives (SLOs) for critical systems.
• Evaluate select and integrate monitoring tools (e.g. Prometheus Grafana Datadog Splunk CloudWatch Azure Monitor GCP Operations Suite ) to meet evolving needs.
• Develop and implement automation scripts and tools (e.g. Python Bash PowerShell ) to streamline monitoring deployment configuration and incident remediation.
• Build and maintain dashboards alerts and reports that provide actionable insights into system performance health and availability.
• Analyze monitoring data to identify performance bottlenecks resource inefficiencies and potential cost optimization opportunities.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to implement performance improvements and cost-saving measures.
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for monitoring systems procedures and best practices.
• Proactively identify areas for improvement in our cloud operations and monitoring capabilities.
• Provide 24
• 7 support for Cloud services
• Participate in cloud security and compliance implementation.

Ideal Qualifications :

• BS level technical degree required; Computer Science or Engineering background preferred.
• 8 years of progressive experience in Cloud Operations DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering roles with a strong focus on monitoring.
• Deep expertise with at least one major public cloud platform ( AWS Azure or Google Cloud Platform ).
• Proven experience as a technical lead or senior contributor in a monitoring-focused role.
• Working knowledge of container-based architecture and deployment (Docker Kubernetes.)
• Extensive experience with various monitoring and observability tools (e.g. Prometheus Grafana Datadog Splunk ELK Stack vendor-specific monitoring solutions).
• Excellent problem-solving analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Working knowledge of Elasticsearch PostgreSQL Redis Ignite Kafka and RabbitMQ.
• Comfortable working within a distributed team located in multiple time zones.

120000 - $140000 a year

Key Skills

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

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