Technical Specialist

Insurance Corporation of British Columbia

$80K — $95K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years experience with enterprise monitoring and observability platforms
  • Hands-on experience with Splunk Enterprise and/or Splunk Cloud
  • Familiarity with observability tools like Dynatrace
  • Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Excellent communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences
  • Experience in Linux/UNIX system administration is an asset
  • Knowledge of scripting and automation (PowerShell, Python) is desirable

Responsibilities

  • Administer and enhance ICBC's Splunk platform
  • Support enterprise observability tools like Dynatrace and SCOM
  • Provide Level 3 technical support and troubleshooting
  • Design and implement monitoring solutions for operational awareness
  • Optimize platform performance and manage data lifecycles
  • Develop scripts for platform administration and efficiency
  • Create technical documentation and operational procedures

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement with a minimum of 8 in-office days per 4-week period
  • Opportunity to work with advanced observability tools
  • Focus on continuous improvement and operational efficiency
  • Engagement in major incident investigations and problem management
  • Collaboration across multiple technology teams for best practices
Full Job Description
The Operational Resilience team at ICBC is responsible for capabilities that support service reliability, operational visibility, event management, and disaster recovery readiness across the organization. The team manages enterprise monitoring and observability platforms and contributes to the resilience of critical business services. We have an opportunity for a Technical Specialist to join our team, with primary responsibility for administering, supporting, and enhancing ICBC's Splunk platform. The successful candidate will also provide technical secondary support for other enterprise monitoring and observability tools, including Dynatrace, SCOM, Aternity, Omnibus, and related technologies. As a Technical Specialist within Operational Resilience, you will help improve visibility into the health and performance of critical services, support faster issue identification and resolution, and contribute to monitoring capabilities that support incident response, service reliability, and disaster recovery objectives. This includes: • Acting as the primary technical specialist for ICBC's Splunk environment, including platform administration, maintenance, optimization, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement. • Supporting Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud capabilities, including ingestion, parsing, indexing, search optimization, dashboards, reporting, alerting, and integrations. • Providing Level 3 technical support, advanced troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and resolution of complex platform issues. • Supporting and maintaining enterprise observability and monitoring platforms including Dynatrace, SCOM, Aternity, Omnibus, and related technologies. • Designing, implementing, and improving monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions that enhance operational awareness and service reliability. • Optimizing platform performance through search tuning, data lifecycle management, alert rationalization, capacity planning, and operational analytics. • Developing automation, integrations, and scripts to improve platform administration and operational efficiency. • Supporting platform upgrades, patching, implementation activities, testing, and lifecycle management. • Creating and maintaining technical documentation, operational procedures, standards, and knowledge-sharing materials. • Collaborating with technology teams across multiple domains to develop monitoring strategies, standards, and best practices. • Participating in major incident investigations, problem management activities, and post-incident reviews. Position Requirements: The successful candidate will bring strong experience supporting enterprise monitoring and observability platforms, with technical expertise in Splunk administration, cloud observability, and telemetry integration. • Hands-on experience administering and supporting Splunk Enterprise and/or Splunk Cloud environments, including architecture, deployment methodologies, performance tuning, and platform optimization. • Experience configuring and supporting Splunk for data onboarding, monitoring, alerting, troubleshooting, dashboards, reporting, and operational analytics across enterprise, cloud, and SaaS environments. • Experience administering, supporting observability platforms such as Dynatrace or similar, including full-stack monitoring, application performance monitoring, real user monitoring, & synthetic monitoring. • Technical project leadership include planning, consulting and driving outcomes to completion. • Collaborating and leading IS colleagues, management and staff in support of cross-workgroup projects, operational support and providing consultation. • Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills with demonstrated experience utilizing observability platforms to identify & correlate service issues and performance concerns. • Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences. Experience with any of the following would be considered an asset: • Linux and/or UNIX system administration. • Proficiency in developing scripts or automation solutions using PowerShell, Python, or similar technologies. • Experience with OpenTelemetry and modern observability practices, including distributed tracing, metrics collection, telemetry pipelines, and cloud-native monitoring. • APIs, integrations, automation frameworks. Work arrangements defined: • Hybrid 8 - you will work a minimum of 8 days in a 4-week period at your primary office headquarters (typically 2 days per week). The remaining days will be remote within British Columbia. Please note there are updates to the hybrid model, starting September. This role will be moving to 2 days per week in office. Only candidates legally entitled to work in Canada will be considered for this position. #IND1

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