Manager, Observability

Intact Financial Corporation; Montreal; Hybrid; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services provider located in Montreal is looking for a Manager of Observability to enhance the enterprise observability platform. The role entails overseeing logging, metrics, tracing, and analytics while collaborating with multiple teams to ensure strong governance and compliance. The ideal candidate will have substantial experience in observability tooling, a track record of leading platform teams, and must be bilingual in French and English. This position offers opportunities for personal and professional growth in a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Performance-led financial rewards

Career development opportunities

Supportive workplace culture

Qualifications

• 6+ years in observability/platform engineering, with 2+ years leading ops/platform teams.
• Experience with multi-cloud and on-prem environments.
• Bilingual (French and English) required.

Responsibilities

• Lead observability platform operations and roadmap.
• Build partnerships across IT and application owners.
• Strengthen incident response and major-incident support.

Skills

Observability/platform engineering

AI/ML anomaly detection

Communication skills

Stakeholder partnership

Hands-on expertise with observability tools

Education

Relevant certifications (Cloud: AWS/Azure/GCP; ITIL/Service Management; Observability/SRE/DevOps)

Tools

Elastic Stack

Dynatrace

Grafana

Micro Focus

Job description

Our employees are at the heart of everything we do. Together, we help people, businesses, and society prosper in good times and be resilient in bad times.

Our employee promise represents Intact’s commitment to you in exchange for living our Values, striving to do your best work, being open to change and investing in your career. In return, we promise to provide support, opportunities and performance-led financial rewards at a workplace where you can shape the future, win as a team and grow with us.

About the role

The Manager, Observability leads the enterprise observability platform, spanning logging, metrics/telemetry, tracing, topology, and analytics. They empower Tech and Lab teams to monitor effectively, with an emphasis on reliability, scalability, self service, and strong governance. The manager also collaborates closely with SRE leadership to broaden coverage and capabilities while consistently upholding standards and compliance.

What you’ll do here:

Platform Stewardship, Standards, and Governance

• Own platform operations and roadmap (Elastic, Dynatrace, Micro Focus, Grafana).
• Manage capacity, cost, performance, and security.
• Govern logging, telemetry, tracing, topology, and data lifecycle/quality.
• Publish standards and guardrails; ensure compliance via gating and maturity checks.
• Align governance with enterprise architecture.
• Manage vendor relationships in collaboration with the Director.

Enablement, Community, and Collaboration

• Build partnerships across IT, application owners, infrastructure, and SDLC stakeholders.
• Coach on instrumentation, alert hygiene, dashboards, tracing, and topology.
• Lead the observability community and deliver shared trainings and templates.
• Communicate platform health, adoption, coverage, and outcomes.

Telemetry, Analytics, and Incidents

• Enrich signals with app, infra, and network data; apply anomaly detection and AI to reduce noise.
• Provide reusable dashboards, alert policies, runbooks, and instrumentation patterns.
• Strengthen incident response, major‑incident support and contribute to post‑mortems.
• Implement enhancements that lower detection time and MTTR.

Automation, Self‑Service, and SDLC Integration

• Automate provisioning, config‑as‑code, data onboarding, alerting, and visualization.
• Embed observability in CI/CD and pre‑release checks; promote “observability by default.”
• Support SRE goals by enabling SLIs/SLOs/SLAs and improving reporting.

People Leadership and Roadmapping

• Manage two Agile product teams and a 24/7 Operations Center.
• Develop talent and a culture of automation, reliability, and customer service.
• Maintain backlog and roadmap; prioritize features and cost; drive continuous improvement and report outcomes.

What you bring to the table:

• 6+ years in observability/platform engineering, with 2+ years leading ops/platform teams.
• Hands‑on expertise with observability tooling (Elastic Stack, Dynatrace, Grafana, Micro Focus) and pipelines for logging, metrics, tracing, and topology.
• Experience building automation and self‑service for observability (IaC, CI/CD, config‑as‑code) and integrating observability into the SDLC.
• Familiarity with multi‑cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) and on‑prem environments; hybrid infrastructure visibility across Canada.
• Background in 24/7 operations and service management.
• Strong communication, stakeholder partnership, coaching, and vendor management skills.
• Experience with AI/ML anomaly detection and analytics in observability contexts.
• Familiarity with SAFe/Agile product management and platform roadmaps.
• Exposure to performance engineering and enterprise architecture standards.
• Relevant certifications (Cloud: AWS/Azure/GCP; ITIL/Service Management; Observability/SRE/DevOps).
• Bilingual (French and English): Need to interact on a regular basis with colleagues across the country.
• No Canadian work experience required however must be eligible to work in Canada.

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We are an equal opportunity employer

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