Observability Engineer

Astra-North Infoteck Inc.; Toronto; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Astra-North Infoteck Inc. seeks an experienced Observability Engineer to join our Enterprise Kubernetes Platform team in Toronto. You will own the observability stack across 50+ production clusters, delivering metrics, logs, tracing, and alerts.

We build intelligent monitoring solutions with AI/ML capabilities to enable predictive alerting and self-healing infrastructure. You will collaborate across Development, QA, and Infra to optimize reliability and performance.

Responsibilities

• Experienced Observability Engineer to join an Enterprise Kubernetes Platform team within a leading financial services organization
• Own and manage the complete observability stack across 50+ production Kubernetes clusters, providing metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting capabilities
• Build intelligent monitoring solutions, predictive alerting, and self-healing infrastructure using modern observability tools and AI/ML capabilities
• 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 using cloud object storage
• Maintain and upgrade observability components across development, QA, UAT, production, and DR environments
• Configure distributed observability architecture spanning multiple datacenters and cloud providers
• Design and implement Prometheus monitoring strategies for Kubernetes infrastructure and containerized applications
• Create Service Monitors and Pod Monitors for automated metrics collection
• Develop intelligent alerting rules with minimal false positives
• Configure multi-cluster metrics federation and aggregation
• Optimize metrics cardinality, storage efficiency, and query performance

Job description

Role Overview

• Experienced Observability Engineer to join an Enterprise Kubernetes Platform team within a leading financial services organization
• Own and manage the complete observability stack across 50+ production Kubernetes clusters, providing metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting capabilities
• Build intelligent monitoring solutions, predictive alerting, and self-healing infrastructure using modern observability tools and AI/ML capabilities

Key Responsibilities

• 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 using cloud object storage
• Maintain and upgrade observability components across development, QA, UAT, production, and DR environments
• Configure distributed observability architecture spanning multiple datacenters 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 intelligent alerting rules with minimal false positives
• Configure multi-cluster metrics federation and aggregation
• Optimize metrics cardinality, storage efficiency, and query performance