Senior Observability Architect

At Suncor, we produce and provide energy. When you join Suncor, you become part of a company that has built a solid foundation for both business and employee success. We are a place where talented people thrive. As part of our team, you play a vital role in delivering energy we all rely on, and you'll make a meaningful impact in the communities where we live and work.

As a Senior Observability Architect, you will help product and platform teams across Digital & Information Technology (D&IT) improve the visibility, reliability, and performance of their applications and systems. Working within a collaborative Dev Ops team, you will lead the development and adoption of observability practices, helping teams gain meaningful insights through monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, and telemetry. This role combines technical expertise, coaching, and hands-on implementation to enable data-driven operational decision-making and support continuous improvement across the organization.

What we offer:

Strong compensation: we offer competitive compensation, regional-based uplifts, annual bonuses, and long-term financial rewards. We also help you save for your future by offering pension programs, and savings plans with company matching
Benefits: utilize an employee assistance program and comprehensive company-paid health, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family to support your mental, physical, and financial well-being
Generous time-off: enjoy generous paid vacation time and personal time-off to recharge and maintain a healthy work-life balance
Talent development programs:
Internal mobility, succession planning, and employee training and development programs are just a few ways we're dedicated to your development

Minimum Requirements:

Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Datadog, Grafana, Azure Monitor, AWS Cloud Watch, or similar platforms
University degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, with 8+ years of relevant experience
Strong understanding of monitoring, logging, alerting, telemetry, and system performance concepts
Experience supporting Dev Ops practices, CI/CD pipelines, and automation initiatives
Knowledge of cloud environments such as Azure and/or AWS
Responsibilities:
Develop and advance observability strategies, frameworks, and best practices across applications, platforms, and value streams
Define and establish performance metrics and operational indicators that align with business outcomes
Develop foundational standards, templates, and reference materials to improve consistency and adoption
Champion, facilitate and advise the development of observability strategy for individual teams within D&IT
Collaborate with stakeholders to improve system reliability, operational awareness, and service performance across the organization
Partner with product and platform teams to implement effective monitoring, logging, alerting, and telemetry solutions
Support the evolution of observability capabilities through automation, analytics, and emerging AiOps/Machine Learning driven practices
Location and other Key Details:  This is an office-based role. You will work out of our Calgary head office, located in the Suncor Energy Centre at 150 - 6th Ave S.W. Hours of work are a regular 40-hour work week, Monday to Friday with occasional site visits. Our business professional roles follow internal compensation guidelines, and the pay band will generally be based on years of experience and scope of work.
Suncor is committed to providing equal opportunities for employment and building an inclusive, results-oriented and high-performance culture where all members of our team feel safe, valued and respected.
At Suncor, our vision is to be Canada's leading energy provider respected for our people, performance, sustainability and relationships that together create value-added contributions to society, communities, customers and shareholders.
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Employer:

Suncor Energy Inc.