Manulife

Production Support Engineer

Manulife

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: WaterlooCanada

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Salary

💰 CA$86,100 - CA$136,100 per year

About the role

  • Responding to daytime production support inquiries
  • Improving reliability and stability through proactive engineering
  • Managing change, incidents, and problems
  • Enhancing observability and health systems
  • Ensuring issues not only get resolved, but get resolved permanently
  • Act as the primary daytime contact for production‑related questions, blocking issues, and support requests
  • Perform initial triage, resolving, and root cause analysis
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to drive permanent fixes
  • Communicate clearly with stakeholders, ensuring visibility and transparency
  • Strengthen system reliability through monitoring, alerting, and proactive maintenance
  • Improve observability using tools like Moogsoft, New Relic, dashboards, logs, and distributed tracing
  • Build or update runbooks to increase operational readiness
  • Contribute to reliability improvements such as reducing alert noise, closing systemic gaps, and improving service resilience.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience in technical support, DevOps, or an SRE‑adjacent role
  • Strong solving and diagnostic skills across distributed systems
  • Hands‑on experience with observability platforms (e.g., New Relic, Moogsoft)
  • Solid understanding of incident, change, and problem management standard processes
  • Proficiency with the ServiceNow ITSM platform
  • Experience with SDLC processes, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Blue/Green deployments, and standard release management practices
  • Strong grasp of ITSM processes, particularly the ITIL framework
  • A data‑driven approach with an “automation‑first” perspective
  • Ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non‑technical audiences
  • A “fix it right” mentality, favoring long‑term solutions over repeated manual interventions
  • Curiosity and a desire to grow in site reliability engineering and deepen your technical expertise.
Benefits
  • Health, dental, mental health insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Short- and long-term disability insurance
  • Life and AD&D insurance coverage
  • Adoption/surrogacy benefits
  • Wellness benefits
  • Employee/family assistance plans
  • Various retirement savings plans
  • Generous paid time off program including holidays, vacation, personal, and sick days
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
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