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Observability Engineer

Halifax, NS
On-site
Posted Oct 23, 2026
1 position

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Employment type: Full-time
Experience level: Senior · 5+ years
Posting language: English
Working hours: 40 hours per week
Seniority: Mid-Senior level
Application method: Direct apply is available

Job summary

Design, deploy, and maintain enterprise-scale observability infrastructure across Kubernetes clusters and multiple environments, including metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting systems. Manage observability deployments with GitOps and infrastructure as code, and optimize multi-cluster metrics collection, storage, and query performance.

Job details

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.

What you’ll do

Requirements

The role seeks a mid-to-senior-level engineer with deep expertise in modern observability tools and enterprise Kubernetes platforms. Responsibilities require experience designing Prometheus monitoring and alerting, managing distributed observability systems, and optimizing metrics storage and performance.