Senior IAM Observability Engineer — Resilience & Detection Lead

RBC; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A major financial institution in Toronto is hiring a Senior Observability Engineer to design and scale an observability stack for their IAM platform. The ideal candidate will have over 7 years of experience in observability or DevOps roles, strong skills with Prometheus and Grafana, and proven logging expertise. This position offers a comprehensive benefits package and opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

Comprehensive Total Rewards Program

Competitive compensation

World-class training program

Opportunities for professional development

Qualifications

• 7+ years in senior Observability, SRE, or DevOps role focusing on distributed systems.
• Deep expertise with Prometheus and Grafana for actionable dashboards.
• Experience managing large-scale logging platforms like ELK or Splunk.
• Demonstrable experience using APM tools for performance tracing.
• Strong scripting skills and experience with Infrastructure as Code.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement a unified observability framework.
• Develop high-signal/low-noise alerting strategies.
• Drive initiatives focused on minimizing MTTD and MTTR.
• Integrate observability tools for monitoring and logging.
• Train engineers on best practices for observability.

Skills

Prometheus

Grafana

Elastic Stack

Dynatrace

Catchpoint

Python

Go

Bash

Job description

A major financial institution in Toronto is hiring a Senior Observability Engineer to design and scale an observability stack for their IAM platform. The ideal candidate will have over 7 years of experience in observability or DevOps roles, strong skills with Prometheus and Grafana, and proven logging expertise. This position offers a comprehensive benefits package and opportunities for professional growth.