Technical Manager, Observability Engineer

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Overview
We are seeking an experienced Technical Manager, Observability Engineer to design, implement, and optimize solutions that provide deep visibility into our distributed systems. In this role, you will work closely with engineering and operations teams to ensure our applications and infrastructure are monitored, measurable, and reliable. Your expertise will help us detect issues faster, remediate problems automatically, and continuously improve system performance.
Role
• Design, build, and maintain observability solutions using Open Telemetry (OTEL), Dynatrace, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, ELK Stack, and related tools.
• Develop automated remediation and self-healing workflows to reduce downtime and accelerate incident recovery.
• Implement monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting across applications and infrastructure for comprehensive visibility.
• Leverage machine learning to detect anomalies, predict failures, and drive proactive improvements.
• Collaborate closely with software teams to instrument code, build dashboards, and analyze telemetry data for actionable insights.
• Continuously enhance observability tooling and processes to improve system reliability, scalability, and performance.

All About You
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Hands-on experience with platforms such as Dynatrace, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, and ELK Stack.
• Extensive hands-on experience in observability engineering within production environments
• Proficiency in Java development, DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and tools like Jenkins, Git, Docker.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices, cloud-native architectures, and telemetry standards like Open Telemetry (OTEL).
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with a collaborative mindset to work across teams.

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Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices;
• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.

Pay Ranges
Vancouver, Canada: $127,000 - $203,000 CAD

Client-provided location(s): Vancouver, Canada

Job ID: Mastercard-22331_R-257132

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-08-15T19:26:14