Principal Observability Engineer (BBBH11976) Toronto, Canada

Job title:

Principal Observability Engineer

Duration:

12-month contract (extension possible)

Role status:

Principal tasks and responsibilities include:

- Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of enterprise observability solutions and monitoring frameworks.
- Develop and enhance dashboards, alerting, and monitoring capabilities using Splunk, Splunk Observability, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, and AWS CloudWatch.
- Design and support observability across cloud and Kubernetes-based environments, driving platform performance and reliability.
- Develop infrastructure automation using Infrastructure as Code (IaC), scripting, and configuration management tools.
- Provide technical leadership, establish observability best practices, and mentor engineering teams.

Our client:

A large global enterprise organization

Qualifications and pre-requisites:

- 10+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Systems Engineering,



or a related infrastructure discipline.
- Strong hands-on experience with Splunk and modern observability platforms, including Splunk Observability, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, and AWS CloudWatch.
- Deep expertise with AWS, Kubernetes/OpenShift, and infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Python, or Bash.
- Proven experience designing scalable monitoring and observability solutions within large enterprise environments.
- Robust communication and leadership skills with the ability to collaborate across technical and business teams.

Additional information or perks:

- Experience with additional cloud platforms (Azure or GCP), Red Hat technologies, virtualization, storage, backup, or identity management is considered an asset.
- Relevant certifications such as Splunk, AWS, or Kubernetes are highly desirable.

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