Senior SRE Observability Engineer – IA & AI Ops Bilingual

Tech Talent International (SI) supplies technical talent to a variety of clients ranging from Fortune 100/500/1000 companies to small and mid-sized organizations in Canada/US and Europe.

We currently have a role as an Senior SRE / Observability Engineer IA & AI Ops - Bilingual with our large consulting client working for a public sector crown corporation in the Montreal area.

Role: Senior SRE / Observability Engineer IA & AI Ops - Bilingual

Type: Permanent or Long Term Contract

Location: Hybrid - Montreal QC -(2/3 days per week onsite)

Salary: Base salary ranges from $110000 - $120000 (depending on experience) 9% bonus 4-5 weeks paid vacation 6% RRSP matching benefits sick/personal day cell phone allowance discounts for public transit and may other perks

Contract Pay Rate: $80 - $90/hr (freelance/incorporated)

Language Requirements: English & French

Key Info: Candidates must be based out of Quebec

Project Overview

The mandate consists of integrating AI/SRE specialists into the squads responsible for systems in production in order to improve the detection diagnosis and resolution of incidents. Consultants use existing traces metrics logs application topologies incident histories runbooks and knowledge bases to develop assisted investigation event correlation and action recommendation particular they can help make this data accessible to development or operations assistants via secure APIs or connectors automate certain triage steps and enrich the runbooks used by the support levels. The work must integrate with the Quebec public sector/crown corporations observability and incident management practices and strengthen the autonomy of the squads that own the systems without transferring operational accountability for these systems to the supplier

Job Description

We are looking for a senior consultant who can improve the detection investigation and resolution of incidents in production through observability automation and artificial intelligence.

The candidate will work on critical environments in order to leverage logs metrics traces alerts incident histories and knowledge bases to accelerate diagnosis enrich runbooks and automate certain support activities.

Profile sought: 70% SRE / 30% AI.

Key Tech Stack

Dynatrace Prometheus Grafana OpenSearch AWS Kubernetes Terraform Python Incident Management RCA AIOps LLM/RAG

Desired experience

• 8 years in SRE Production Operations or Reliability
• Critical Incident Management and RCA (Root Cause Analysis)
• Leveraging Kubernetes platforms in production
• AWS Cloud Environments
• Automation with Python
• MTTD/MTTR Enhancement

Key Technical Skills

Observability

• Dynatrace
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• OpenSearch / Elastic
• Monitoring Alerting Logging Tracing

Cloud & Platform

• AWS
• CloudWatch
• Kubernetes / EKS
• OpenShift (asset)

DevOps & Automation

• Python
• Bash
• GitLab / GitLab CI
• Terraform
• Ansible
• Infrastructure as Code

AI applied to operations

• AIOps
• GenAI
• LLM
• Copilot
• Agentic AI
• RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
• Semantic Search
• Knowledge Retrieval
• Event Correlation
• Operational Intelligence
• AI Assistant
• Incident Investigation Automation

Target Job Titles

• Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
• Reliability Engineer
• Observability Engineer
• Platform Engineer
• Production Engineer
• Cloud Operations Engineer
• Kubernetes Engineer
• AIOps Engineer