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Kubernetes OBSERVABILITY ENGINEER
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Senior Level
Full-Time
About the role
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are seeking an experienced Observability Engineer to join our Enterprise Kubernetes Platform team at a leading financial services organization. You’ll own the complete observability stack across 50+ 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 YOULL 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 infrastructures code
- Implement long-term metrics storage solutions with 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, 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 deficiency, and query performance.