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Observability Engineer

@ Insight Global

Vancouver, British Columbia

$51/hrContract4+ years experience
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Overview

Insight Global is hiring an Observability Engineer on contract for a client's platform and infrastructure team, supporting enterprise monitoring across roughly 1,200 engineers. The work covers onboarding application teams to Datadog, Splunk and Edge Delta, defining standards, and resolving issues with vendor TAMs. Required skills include Datadog and Splunk experience, Kubernetes, and Ansible or Terraform.

Pay:

From $51 an hour

Responsibilities:

  • Support teams instrumenting Datadog, Splunk and Edge Delta
  • Set and track observability standards and best practices
  • Resolve implementation issues with vendor TAMs
  • Give feedback on blockers and streamlining opportunities

Requirements summary:

  • 4+ years with Datadog and Splunk observability
  • 2+ years building observability rules and advanced logic
  • Hands-on Kubernetes and Terraform or Ansible experience
  • College degree in computer science or engineering

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Employer posting date
2026-11-04
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2026-11-04
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2026-11-04

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Job details

SeniorityMid level
DepartmentIT
Experience4+ years
Travelair: none · ground: none
Work settingOffice, Home
PositionMostly sitting
Physical demandsphysical low · computer high
LanguagesEnglish
EducationCollege diploma (required)
Fields of studyComputer science, Engineering

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Insight Global

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Insight Global is a talent, consulting, and AI company.

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Insight Global is an international talent and consulting company that delivers business outcomes in an ever-changing world. We obsess over solving problems and building solutions that move our customers further, faster. With access to top talent in more than 50 countries, our tech-enabled recruiters can build teams quickly. Our technical experts across Cloud, AI, Data, Enterprise Operations, and Applied Engineering deliver solutions tailored to each customer’s needs. As those needs evolve, so do we. As we evolve, though, we stay true to our purpose: to develop people personally, professionally, and financially so they can be the light to the world around them. It shows up in everything we do, from investing in our people to delivering results for our customers to making a meaningful impact in our communities.

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Insight Global is an international talent and consulting company that delivers business outcomes in an ever-changing world. We obsess over solving problems and building solutions that move our customers further, faster. With access to top talent in more than 50 countries, our tech-enabled recruiters can build teams quickly. Our technical experts across Cloud, AI, Data, Enterprise Operations, and Applied Engineering…

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Company size1,001-5,000 employees
HeadquartersAtlanta, Georgia
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Year founded2001
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Job description
Required Skills & Experience

• Hands-on experience with Datadog APM, Infra, serverless, and RUM (Real User Monitoring); Splunk for logging; Edge Delta for Observability Pipeline (data optimization)
• Experience in migrating app servers, Observability solution agents, or rolling out mass updates using Ansible or Terraform.
• Hands-on experience in implementing and configuring an Observability solution in Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with high availability back-end systems and services.
• Demonstrated sense of ownership to plan, execute, and drive product deliverables to successful completion in a collaborative environment.
• Experience with agile development methodologies, Test Driven Development (TDD), and CI/CD is a plus.
• Ability to think innovatively and contribute to the success of products, processes, and customer experience.
• Excellent decision-making, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Using Generative AI tools to accelerate implementation and platform support.
• Knowledge of:
o PII / CCPA / GDPR compliance
o Enterprise Single Sign-On
o Docker and Kubernetes
o Atlassian Suite tools
o Cloud Solutions (AWS and Azure)
o Terraform or Ansible

Qualifications
• College degree in computer science/engineering or related field.
• Minimum 4+ years of experience with Observability solutions (Datadog and Splunk).
• Minimum 2+ years of experience with rule and advanced logic creation for Observability.
• Proven history of delivering quality results on complex cross-functional projects.
• Analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills. Must be able to communicate with a wide variety of audiences, both business and technical.

Job Description

Insight Global is looking for an observability engineer for one of our clients platform and infrastructure teams. The team oversees Technology Monitoring across the Enterprise. Our responsibilities include supporting onboarding, training, and management of our services. They collaborate with our vendors, Splunk and Datadog, to provide observability for a Technology department of over 1200 Engineers. We drive the maturity of our Technology teams by establishing and tracking best standards for our platforms. We are looking for a motivated engineer to become a core member of the Observability Team, helping guide the organization to both improve the practice and contribute to developing our strategy, roadmap, and execution at lululemon. As a successful candidate for this role, you will support application teams migrating to Datadog using APM, Infra, and Serverless agents, ensuring our standards and best practices are met. You will work with key stakeholders to improve our documentation, standards, and practices. Finally, the role involves working with multiple internal teams, including vendor TAMs, to resolve issues and empower our end users. Experience with vendor management and tools rationalization projects is ideal. This is an enablement team.

• Support our teams with the instrumentation of Datadog, Splunk and Edge Delta, ensuring our onboarding process and best practices are adopted.
• Provide feedback to key stakeholders about challenges, blockers, or opportunities to streamline the way we work.
• Work with Datadog, Splunk and Edge Delta support / TAMs to resolve implementation issues.

Key Responsibilities
• Own and operate GitLab SaaS and Terraform Cloud platforms at enterprise scale amongst other SDLC and Software Supply Chain Tooling
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines, runner infrastructure, templates, and reusable components
• Build and govern Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), modules, and policy-as-code guardrails
• Embed software supply chain security, compliance controls, and SSDLC standards into pipelines
• Integrate AI-assisted workflows into CI/CD, code review, and incident response
• Develop GitOps workflows and self-service platform capabilities
• Automate provisioning, access management, and lifecycle workflows
• Ensure platform observability, reliability, and operational readiness (including on-call ownership)
• Analyse platform usage metrics and drive data-informed improvements
• Partner with product, security, and engineering teams to shape roadmap and priorities
• Produce documentation, architecture patterns, and runbooks
• Mentor engineers and contribute to platform engineering standards

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