Azure Observability Engineer

Job Title: Azure Observability Engineer

Location: Scarborough, Canada (Hybrid – EST)

Employment Type: Contract

Experience: 5+ Years

Role Summary

We are seeking a skilled Azure Observability Engineer to design, implement, and operate enterprise-grade monitoring and telemetry solutions across Azure environments. This role focuses on Azure Monitor, OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace, and seamless alerting integrations with ServiceNow to enhance system visibility, reliability, and performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement observability solutions using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and diagnostic settings
• Build and optimize alerting pipelines and integrate Azure alerts/events with ServiceNow
• Lead the implementation of OpenTelemetry for traces, metrics, and logs, including Collector pipelines and sampling strategies
• Implement and manage Dynatrace instrumentation for Azure workloads (including serverless and container-based applications)
• Support Dynatrace ActiveGate deployment and hybrid telemetry ingestion patterns
• Ensure secure and reliable telemetry flows, including private endpoints, TLS, and identity management
• Enforce monitoring standards and governance using Terraform and Azure Policy

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of experience in SRE, Platform Engineering, or Observability, with at least 2+ years in Azure
• Strong hands-on experience with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and alerting frameworks
• Experience integrating cloud-native alerting systems with ServiceNow
• Proficiency in OpenTelemetry instrumentation and Collector configuration
• Good understanding of networking and security principles related to telemetry
• Hands-on experience with Terraform and Azure Policy

Nice to Have

• Azure certifications (Administrator, Solutions Architect, or DevOps Engineer)
• Experience with Azure Functions, Container Apps, and serverless observability
• Advanced experience with Dynatrace, including container and serverless instrumentation