Observability Engineer

Astra-North Infoteck Inc.; Halifax; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Astra-North Infoteck Inc. in Halifax, Canada, seeks a Senior Observability Engineer to own the full observability stack across production Kubernetes clusters, delivering metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting for mission-critical apps.

You will deploy and maintain Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos, Loki, and related collectors, apply GitOps and IaC, and design predictive alerting and self-healing strategies to improve reliability.

Qualifications

• Experience managing observability stacks in enterprise Kubernetes environments.
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos, Loki.
• Knowledge of alerting best practices and SRE principles.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain enterprise-scale observability infrastructure across multiple clusters.
• Manage observability deployments using GitOps and infrastructure as code.
• Implement long-term metrics storage with cloud object storage.
• Maintain components across development through production and DR environments.
• Configure multi-cluster metrics federation and optimized queries.

Skills

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Thanos

Loki

Observability

GitOps

IaC

Tools

Terraform

Kustomize

Job description

Senior Observability Engineer – Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana & Thanos

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are seeking an experienced Observability Engineer to join an enterprise Kubernetes platform team.

You’ll own the complete observability stack across multiple production Kubernetes clusters, providing metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting capabilities that ensure exceptional reliability and performance for mission-critical applications.

This role combines deep technical expertise in modern observability tools with emerging AI/ML capabilities to build intelligent monitoring solutions, predictive alerting, and self-healing infrastructure.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Design, deploy, and maintain enterprise-scale observability infrastructure, including Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos, Loki, and modern collection agents.
• Manage observability deployments using GitOps principles and infrastructure as code.
• Implement long-term metrics storage solutions with cloud object storage.
• Maintain and upgrade observability components across development, QA, UAT, production, and disaster recovery environments.
• Configure distributed observability architecture spanning multiple data centers and cloud providers.

METRICS & MONITORING

• Design and implement Prometheus monitoring strategies for Kubernetes infrastructure and containerized applications.
• Create Service Monitors and Pod Monitors for automated metrics collection.
• Develop rules for intelligent alerting with minimal false positives.
• Configure multi-cluster metrics federation and aggregation.
• Optimize metrics cardinality, storage efficiency, and query performance.