Google Cloud Platform Engineer

Soho Square Solutions; Montreal; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech consultancy is seeking a GCP Observability Engineer in Montreal for a 1-year contract. The role focuses on developing observability platforms, collaborating with teams to ensure reliability and performance in cloud environments. The ideal candidate has extensive experience with observability tools like Grafana and Prometheus, along with a strong background in container tech like Docker and Kubernetes. This position requires onsite presence 3 days a week.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in Observability and Monitoring.
• Hands-on experience with observability tools.
• Experience with container technologies and orchestration platforms.

Responsibilities

• Build and support modernization of observability tools.
• Design and implement telemetry solutions.
• Collaborate with DevOps and security teams.

Skills

Observability, Logging, and Monitoring

Grafana

Prometheus

Docker

Kubernetes

Python

Cloud environments

Tools

ElasticSearch

Datadog

Splunk

Job description

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Job Title: GCP Observability Engineer

Duration: 1 Year (Contract)

Location: Montreal (Day 1 onboarding onsite / in office presence 3x week)

Role Description

We are seeking an experienced and motivated engineer to join the Observability fleet which focuses on delivering tools in private and public cloud environments. The role focuses on developing and modernizing Observability platforms for cloud-native and hybrid applications, with a primary focus on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

This role involves designing, integrating, and maintaining solutions for collecting, transporting, and visualizing telemetry (tracing, metrics, and logging) to improve the reliability and uptime of our applications. You will closely collaborate with software developers, SRE, infrastructure, and security teams to drive automation and implement best-in-class observability solutions supporting both development and operations in a hybrid cloud environment.

Responsibilities

• Build and support the modernization and integration of observability tools in private and public cloud offerings (GCP, AKS, EKS)

• Design, implement, and automate telemetry, logging, and monitoring solutions

• including dashboards, alerts, and CI/CD integration.

• Enable teams to leverage observability data for reliability, performance, and security use cases; provide actionable recommendations.

• Collaborate with DevOps, SRE, and security teams to share best practices and support adoption of observability standards.

• Mentor and upskill client teams through knowledge transfer and participate in on call activities as required.

Required Skills

• At least 5 years of relevant experience in Observability, Logging, and Monitoring in enterprise environments.

• Hands-on experience with observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Cortex, Tempo, ElasticSearch, Datadog, Splunk, or equivalents.

• Experience working with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and orchestration platforms (GKE or similar).

• Proficiency in setting up and configuring dashboards, alerts, and alarms on Grafana and/or GCP Monitoring.

• Experience in integrating observability tools with CI/CD pipelines and automating through scripting (Python, Bash, JSON, YAML, Terraform or similar).

• Excellent communication, presentation, and problem-solving skills.

• Proficiency with Linux operating systems and databases (MySQL, DB2, MSSQL, or similar).

• Solid understanding of how enterprise service delivery components interact (web servers, application servers, databases, web services, storage, security).

Nice to Have

• Experience with application instrumentation for distributed tracing, metric and log collection.

• Experience with programming languages (preferably Python, Java, or Go).

• Familiarity with log parsing and regular expressions for data extraction.

• Experience with DevOps tooling and automation.

• Prior experience with Application Performance Management (APM) solutions.

• Experience integrating end-user applications with monitoring and APM tools.

• Experience with other public cloud providers (AWS, Azure) is a plus.

• Understanding of enterprise-architecture concepts: 3-tier architecture, high-availability/disaster recovery, active-active data centers, etc.

• Familiarity with networking concepts and protocols (OSI model, TCP/IP, HTTP, firewalls, load balancers).

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Business Consulting and Services

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