2 months ago
Montréal, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Define and implement the observability strategy, governance standards, tagging standards, ownership models, dashboards, and alert-management practices.
- Design, deploy, and maintain monitoring, alerting, visualization, APM, RUM, instrumentation, and monitoring-agent solutions using Dynatrace or equivalent tools.
- Establish and promote SRE practices including SLI, SLO, error budgets, and symptom-based alerting.
- Collaborate with development and product teams to improve system reliability, performance, and resilience.
- Lead technical initiatives from end to end, manage priorities, and deliver work within defined timelines and budgets.
- Analyze and resolve complex incidents in distributed microservices architectures.
- Coach and train teams without dedicated observability expertise while promoting documentation and continuous improvement.
- Collaborate with distributed international teams and contribute to operational excellence.
Requirements
- Significant Site Reliability Engineering experience in complex production environments.
- Strong knowledge of SLI, SLO, error budgets, symptom-based alerting, observability governance, RBAC, and SLO management.
- Demonstrated expertise with an observability platform such as Dynatrace, Datadog, New Relic, or AppDynamics.
- Practical production experience with OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, AWS, and Kubernetes.
- Strong infrastructure and operations automation experience with Terraform, Bash, and Python.
- Experience with GitLab CI or another pipeline and workflow management tool.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives end to end in complex operational environments.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in both French and English.
- Strong knowledge transfer, coaching, organization, collaboration, prioritization, autonomy, and documentation skills.
- Experience monitoring and operating Java Spring Boot applications, working in e-commerce environments, defining enterprise-wide observability standards, or consulting with multiple development teams is an asset.
- Applicants are encouraged to apply even if they do not meet every listed qualification.
Benefits
- Full-time position based in Montreal, Quebec, with flexible schedules and closure during the winter holidays.
- Comprehensive insurance coverage available after three months, with employer contributions of up to 80% depending on the selected plan, including short- and long-term disability coverage.
- Virtual healthcare through Dialogue via Sun Life, an employee and family assistance program, and mental-health support.
- Personal $500 spending account for eligible healthcare, gym, transit, office-supply, or REER expenses.
- Retirement program matching 100% of REER contributions through an RPDB up to 4%; REER contributions can begin immediately and RPDB participation after three months, with vesting after 24 months.
- Flexible vacation program, including five days during the probation period and prorated time for the remainder of the year.
- $30 per month personal technology reimbursement from the first day.
- Flexible Friday-afternoon schedules when weekly hours are completed.
Tech Stack
Categories
Site Reliability
About Valtech
Valtech provides digital consulting and engineering services to large enterprises, delivering customer experience design, commerce platforms, data/AI solutions, and transformation programs. It works across sectors such as retail, financial services, manufacturing, mobility, health, and travel, offering strategy, design, build, and managed services. Founded in 1993, Valtech is a global company privately held under Kharis Capital.