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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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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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