IT Observability Specialist - Montréal, Canada - Intact

Intact

Verified Company

Montréal, Canada

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Sophia Lee

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Description

From coast-to-coast, our inspiring colleagues are at the heart of what we do best: helping people, businesses and society prosper in good times and be resilient in bad times.

With our team, you'll bring this purpose to life every day by living our Values, being open to change, and pursuing your goals.

In return, we'll give you countless opportunities to learn and grow, alongside a diverse and passionate community of experts - the best the industry has to offer.

You'll be empowered to be your best self, do your best work, and make a meaningful impact. Here, you can help shape the future of insurance, win as a team, and grow with us.

About the role
We are looking for an IT Observability Specialist to join our growing team

Intact Financial Corporation (IFC) is the largest provider of property and casualty (P&C) insurance in Canada and a leading provider of specialty insurance in North America.

Constantly expanding at a global scale, the company requires sustained innovation, speed and flexibility from its IT sector.

Our success is associated with an increasingly complex technological landscape.

The ability to effectively establish the state of core systems and services, prevent and resolve problems, assess performance and user experience across the IT ecosystem and up to the end user is both challenging and essential.

The Observability Center of Excellence plays a leading role in the enablement and achievement of this objective.

As Observability Specialist within the OCoE, you'll be a key contributor to the Observability strategy at IFC and be responsible for the integration and evolution of the platform as well as the associated automation and service delivery.

You will enable and guide our IT teams in achieving observability.

You will work in active collaboration with your teammates, management, the Product Owner, the technological experts and our partners across IT.

The Observability Center of Excellence is expanding and seeking experts to accelerate and drive transversal enablement of IT's Observability solutions, practices and expertise.

What you'll do here:

Automate system instrumentalization and configuration.
Design and implement Self-Service models for Observability.
Develop observability requirements working with various IT support and cloud ops teams.
Implement workflow and synthetic transaction monitoring and alerting.
Establish protocols for proactive monitoring alerts.
Define, capture, analyze and build monitoring solutions as per system requirements.
Conducts Incident reviews from monitoring perspective address any gaps in monitoring coverage.
Prepare environment dashboards and report environment health and availability metrics.
Support the observability platform and its underlying solutions.
Produce and review Architecture documentation.
Define best practices framework and guidelines.

What you need:

Solid expertise on the topic of IT Observability.
Extensive experience with Application Performance Management, IT Infrastructure Monitoring and User Experience monitoring.
Technical leadership experience.
Solid knowledge of AI-OPS, anomaly detection and event correlation solutions (Davis, Xpack, Optic, Vertica, ).
Comfortable with scripting or programming languages.
Experience with Open telemetry.
Good knowledge on infrastructure protocols to gather elementlevel event data.
Good knowledge of open source monitoring technologies like timeseries DBs, metrics dashboards, realtime graphing, graph editors, ELK stack and Vector framework.
Proficient with data lifecycles and aggregation, reporting and web dashboards.
Proficient in ITIL event management and good basis in ITIL foundational concepts.
Handson experience with Continuous Integration tools.
Deep knowledge of observability and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).

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What we offer
Working here means you'll be empowered to be and do your best every day.

Here is some of what you can expect as a permanent member of our team:

A financial rewards program that recognizes your success
An industry leading Employee Share Purchase Plan; we match 50% of net shares purchased
An extensive flex pension and benefits package, with access to virtual healthcare
Flexible work arrangements
Possibility to purchase up to 5 extra days off per year
An annual wellness account that promotes an active and healthy lifestyle
Access to tools and resources to support physical and mental health, embracing change and connecting with colleagues
A dynamic workplace learning ecosystem complete with learning journeys, interactive online content, and inspiring programs
Inclusive employeeled networks to educate, inspire, amplify voices, build relationships and provide development opportunities
Inspiring leaders and colleagues who will lift you up and help you grow
A Community Impact program, because what you care about is a part of what makes you