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SRE/ Observablity Engineer-1

Realign

Toronto, Canada

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Toronto, Ontario M5V 3L9 Posted February 21st, 2026

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Job Type: Full Time

Job Category: IT

Job Description

SRE/ Observablity Engineer

Toronto, ON - Onsite

Total Experience: 8-10 years

Required Skill Set:

  • We are looking for a Mid-Level Observability Engineer to help implement, operate, and improve observability capabilities across our applications and platforms.
  • This role focuses on hands-on onboarding, instrumentation, dashboarding, and alerting, working under established standards and guidance from senior engineers.
  • You will collaborate with application, SRE, and operations teams to ensure systems are observable, supportable, and production-ready.
  • Observability Implementation Implement and maintain metrics, logs, and traces for applications and infrastructure
  • Assist with onboarding applications into observability platforms (e.g., Dynatrace, ELK, Datadog)
  • Configure dashboards, alerts, and basic anomaly detection Application Support Instrumentation
  • Work with development teams to enable structured logging, basic distributed tracing, and core metrics
  • Validate observability requirements during Production Readiness Reviews (PRR)Troubleshoot missing or low-quality telemetry
  • Monitoring Alerting Configure alerts based on golden signals (latency, errors, traffic, saturation)
  • Help reduce alert noise by tuning thresholds and alert logic
  • Support incident response by gathering logs, metrics, and traces Operations Reliability Support root cause analysis using observability tools
  • Maintain dashboards and documentation used by on-call and support teams
  • Participate in on-call rotations (as applicable) Automation Continuous Improvement Assist in automating observability onboarding and validation tasks
  • Create and maintain reusable dashboards and alert templates
  • Follow established observability standards and best practices Required Qualifications 24 years of experience in Observability, or SRE
  • Working knowledge of metrics, logs, and basic tracing concepts
  • Hands-on experience with at least one observability platform (Dynatrace, Elastic ELK, Datadog, New Relic, etc.)
  • Basic understanding of SLIs SLOs and service health indicators
  • Experience with cloud platforms or hybrid environments
  • Ability to write scripts (Python, Bash, PowerShell) for automation and troubleshooting
  • Preferred Qualifications Experience with Open Telemetry or APM agents
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes or containerized workloads
  • Experience working with incident management tools (PagerDuty, ServiceNow)Exposure to Dynatrace Kibana ELK or similar cloud-native monitoring
  • Experience in regulated or enterprise environments

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