CI Financial

Intermediate Observability Engineer

CI Financial$69K — $110K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3–5 years in Observability, Monitoring, DevOps, Systems Engineering, or SRE-related roles.
  • Hands-on experience with Dynatrace for deployment, configuration, and alerting.
  • Knowledge of AWS infrastructure and monitoring, particularly CloudWatch.
  • Experience with scripting or automation using Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
  • Familiarity with Terraform or CloudFormation for infrastructure deployment.
  • Understanding of observability concepts like metrics, logs, and alerting.
  • Familiar with modern application environments like microservices and containers.

Responsibilities

  • Assist in implementing centralized observability capabilities using Dynatrace and AWS CloudWatch.
  • Support the deployment and configuration of Dynatrace OneAgent across hybrid environments.
  • Help onboard applications into monitoring platforms for improved visibility.
  • Maintain dashboards, alert configurations, and tagging structures.
  • Configure monitoring for distributed applications, APIs, and cloud workloads.
  • Build persona-based dashboards and tune alert thresholds to minimize alert noise.
  • Support incident triage using Dynatrace features and assist in post-incident follow-up.

Benefits

  • Health insurance coverage
  • Wellness programs
  • Life and disability insurance
  • Retirement savings plans
  • Paid leave programs
  • Education-related programs
  • Paid holidays and vacation time
  • Many benefits are subsidized or fully paid for by the company.
Full Job Description
We are seeking a Mid-Level Observability Engineer to help build, maintain, and enhance our enterprise monitoring and observability capabilities across cloud and hybrid environments. This role is hands-on and execution-focused, supporting Dynatrace and AWS CloudWatch implementations, dashboard development, alert tuning, instrumentation, and operational reporting for critical platforms and applications
The ideal candidate will partner with Cloud Engineering, DevOps, SRE, and application teams to improve service visibility, strengthen monitoring coverage, and embed observability practices into ongoing operational and delivery workflows.

Key Responsibilities

1. Monitoring & Platform Operations

  • Assist in implementing and maintaining centralized observability capabilities using Dynatrace and AWS CloudWatch across enterprise systems and cloud workloads.
  • Deploy, configure, and support Dynatrace OneAgent and related monitoring components across hybrid infrastructure and modern application environments.
  • Help onboard applications, services, and infrastructure into monitoring platforms, ensuring basic visibility for availability, performance, logs, metrics, and traces.
  • Support the creation and maintenance of dashboards, management zones, tagging structures, notebooks, and alert configurations.

2. APM, Alerting & Troubleshooting

  • Configure and maintain monitoring for distributed applications, APIs, databases, and cloud-native workloads.
  • Build and tune persona-based dashboards and alerting thresholds for engineering, operations, and leadership audiences while helping reduce unnecessary alert noise.
  • Support incident triage and root cause analysis using Dynatrace features such as Davis AI, topology mapping, and distributed tracing under the guidance of senior engineers.
  • Assist with post-incident follow-up by identifying monitoring gaps and recommending dashboard, threshold, or instrumentation improvements.

3. Cloud & Telemetry Engineering

  • Implement cloud observability capabilities using AWS CloudWatch, including logs, metrics, alarms, dashboards, and basic analytics.
  • Support distributed tracing and log aggregation for microservices, containerized platforms, and serverless workloads such as EKS, ECS, and Lambda.
  • Work with development and DevOps teams to improve instrumentation consistency and embed monitoring tasks into CI/CD workflows.
  • Contribute to automation of monitoring deployment and configuration tasks through scripting and infrastructure-as-code practices.

4. Operational Excellence & Team Collaboration

  • Create recurring operational reports and dashboards that track application health, infrastructure performance, and service-level indicators.
  • Participate in monitoring reviews, tuning exercises, and platform housekeeping activities to improve quality of observability data
  • Collaborate with senior engineers and cross-functional teams to document standards, improve adoption, and support enterprise monitoring initiatives.
  • 3–5 years of experience in Observability, Monitoring, DevOps, Systems Engineering, or SRE-related roles.
  • Hands-on experience with Dynatrace, including deployment, configuration, dashboarding, alerting, and basic APM support.
  • Working knowledge of AWS infrastructure and monitoring concepts, especially CloudWatch and common cloud services used in enterprise environments.
  • Experience with scripting or automation using Python, Bash, or PowerShell for monitoring operations and platform support tasks.
  • Familiarity with Terraform or CloudFormation for basic infrastructure and configuration deployment.
  • Understanding of observability fundamentals, including metrics, logs, traces, alerting, the golden signals, and structured logging practices.
  • Good understanding of modern application environments such as microservices, container platforms, and distributed systems.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Dynatrace Associate or Professional certification.
  • Exposure to OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Elastic, or Splunk
  • Experience supporting monitoring for Kubernetes, AWS Lambda, APIs, and containerized application environments.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD integration patterns for monitoring validation and observability onboarding.

This opportunity is for an existing vacancy with the company. The anticipated base salary range for this position is$69,500 to $110,000. Exact salary depends on several factors such as experience, skills, education, and budget. Salary range may vary based on geographic location. In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for participation in a bonus program. In addition, The Company offers a variety of benefits to eligible employees, including health insurance coverage, wellness programs, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plans, paid leave programs, education-related programs, paid holidays and vacation time, and many others. Many of these benefits are subsidized or fully paid for by the company.

    About CI Financial

    CI Financial is a diversified wealth management firm and one of the largest investment companies in Canada. The company offers a wide range of investment products and services, including mutual funds, ETFs, segregated funds, and alternative investments. CI Financial serves individual investors, financial advisors, and institutional clients across Canada and around the world. The company was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
    Learn more about CI Financial
    Size
    1,793 employees
    Market Cap
    $1.7 billion
    Industry
    NASDAQ

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