We are seeking a talented individual to join our team at Mercer. This role will be based in Toronto . This is a hybrid role that requires working at least three days a week in the office. Responsibilities Use telemetry and observability data to drive site‑reliability improvements, optimize instrumentation, and support consolidated alerting and service‑level status across platforms. Configure, maintain, and tune enterprise monitoring and observability toolsets; design and implement integrations for unified alerting and status reporting. Partner with application, platform, and stakeholder teams to ensure deployed instrumentation is effective and to optimize telemetry, dashboards, and reports for actionable insights. Identify and implement automation opportunities (self‑service, simplified administration, automated remediation and deployments) to improve operational efficiency. Apply ITIL practices (Event/Availability, Service Level, Problem, Change, and Configuration Management) and actively participate in agile planning and team collaboration. Lead complex implementations and projects, mentor junior staff, and communicate project status, risks, and issues clearly to technical and business audiences. Maintain a strong customer focus: manage expectations, build user trust, and align monitoring and reliability activities with business objectives. Qualifications Minimum 10 years of IT experience, ideally within mid‑ to large‑sized global organizations. Deep understanding of application service composition and cross‑technology dependencies (application services, databases, and infrastructure). At least 5 years of hands‑on experience with system and application monitoring, APM, synthetics, and real‑user monitoring using technologies such as OpenTelemetry,



Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, LogicMonitor, BigPanda, ServiceNow ITOM, or comparable tools (Dynatrace, New Relic, Elastic). Proven experience using ServiceNow (Incident, Configuration/CMDB, Problem, and Change modules) to manage work, incidents, and configuration items. Comfortable working in agile teams and using tools like JIRA or Azure DevOps for backlog management, sprint planning, and tracking. What Makes You Stand Out Hands‑on experience with ServiceNow (Incident, Configuration, Problem, Change) to manage and update assigned work, coupled with demonstrated application of core project management approaches to plan, track, and deliver tasks. Proficient with Datadog platform administration and monitoring capabilities, and experienced deploying and configuring OpenTelemetry — including planning, optimization, and migrations from other toolsets. Instrumentation expertise to align user experience with service optimization and telemetry, and the ability to work independently while providing clear, timely updates to peers and stakeholders. Benefits Professional development opportunities, interesting work and supportive leaders. A vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have an impact on colleagues, clients and communities. Career opportunities, benefits and rewards to enhance your well‑being.



Marsh is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age background, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. In accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005, Marsh will provide a reasonable accommodation to employees and prospective employees to the point of undue hardship upon request and as required in respect of the individual’s particular restrictions and limitations. If you require a specific accommodation because of a disability or medical need, please contact Marsh is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office‑based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person. The applicable base salary range for this role is $111,000 to $161,000. Additional compensation may include performance‑based incentives. A competitive total rewards package includes health and welfare benefits, tuition assistance, retirement programs as well as employee assistance programs. This is a current position. #J-18808-Ljbffr

📌 Senior Specialist - Systems Administration - C$111,000 - C$161,000 A Year (Toronto)
🏢 Mercer
📍 Toronto