Senior Support Engineer

Apptoza Inc — Canada · Posted ~5 hours ago

Senior Full-time

Skills

Production Support Observability Terraform Distributed Tracing Metrics Log Aggregation Incident Troubleshooting Azure Kubernetes Service Azure SLI/SLO Dynatrace ELK Splunk PagerDuty Node.js .NET AKS Kubernetes

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Summary ✨ AI‑Generated

A technology organization is seeking a Senior Support Engineer to strengthen observability and reliability across distributed cloud-native systems. You will build monitoring and alerting infrastructure with Terraform, instrument microservices for tracing, metrics, and logs, and troubleshoot complex production incidents across services, databases, caches, and APIs.

Highlights

Senior engineering role focused on improving reliability, observability, and production performance. You will work with modern cloud-native infrastructure, distributed systems, and advanced monitoring practices while solving complex production incidents.

Description

Role- Sr Support Engineer Location - Montreal ,QC Role Descriptions: What will you do? Design and implement observability-as-code solutions using Terraform to deploy monitoring pipelines| dashboards| and alerting strategies across distributed systems. Drive observability improvements leveraging industry-leading tools (Dynatrace| ELK| Splunk| Pager Duty) to achieve real-time performance insights and comprehensive system visibility. Instrument applications for end-to-end observability implementing distributed tracing| metrics collection| and log aggregation across Node.js and .NET microservices and event-driven architectures. Troubleshoot complex incidents in production environments| diagnosing root causes across multiple service layers| databases| caches| and APIs under load using SLI/SLO frameworks. Investigate and resolve Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) infrastructure| ensuring reliability and scalability of containerized workloads with deep proficiency in Terraform and Azure managed services (SQL MI| Redis | Functions| Event Grid).Translate business requirements into observable| resilient systems that meet defined SLIs/SLOs and drive reliability improvements. Automate operational tasks to reduce toil and improve system resilience through infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD best practices. Lead incident response and remediation for mission-critical systems| conducting blameless postmortems and building resilience through chaos engineering and tabletop exercises. Collaborate cross-functionally with development| platform| and business teams to improve service availability| scalability| and operational excellence. What do you need to succeed?Must-have:8+ years hands-on experience in observability| SRE| or DevOps roles with proven expertise across infrastructure and application-level reliability .Deep expertise in observability tooling: Dynatrace| ELK| Splunk| and Pager Duty; demonstrated understanding of observability principles (instrumentation| correlation IDs| SLI/SLO frameworks).Advanced proficiency with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)| Terraform| and Azure managed services (SQL MI| Redis| Functions| Event Grid); proven ability to design and implement infrastructure-as-code solutions. Strong hands-on experience instrumenting applications for comprehensive observability: distributed tracing| metrics collection| and log aggregation across Node.js and .NET applications in microservices and event-driven architectures. Proven troubleshooting expertise in distributed systems diagnosing root causes across multiple service layers| databases| caches| and APIs in production environments. Excellent incident management skills: hands-on experience with Pager Duty and ServiceNow; ability to resolve high-severity incidents rapidly and conduct effective root cause analysis. Knowledge of incident| problem| and change management processes| including SRE principles| blameless postmortems| and chaos engineering practices. Exceptional communication and leadership