Bilingual Senior Specialist, IT Operations Monitoring & Service Insights

About CMHC

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What’s in it for you

We’ve got the purpose, the people and the perks you need for a fulfilling career. Here’s the comprehensive and generous benefits you get when you’re a permanent employee:

• Annual Paid vacation.
• Annual individual performance incentive.
• Defined benefit pension plan.
• Comprehensive group insurance plan to support your well-being from day one.
• Support towards your personal and professional growth with training, mentorship and more. 
• An inclusive workplace culture and environment.
• While positions at CMHC require some in-office presence, alternative work arrangements may be considered for Indigenous candidates. 

About the role

Join the Infrastructure and Operations team in the Bilingual Senior IT Operations Monitoring & Service Insights Specialist position. You will be responsible for the advanced configuration, operation, and continuous improvement of Incident Management and related ITSM processes, while ensuring end-to-end service visibility through proactive, enterprise-wide monitoring (infrastructure, network, certificates and applications).  

What you’ll do:

• Monitor end-to-end IT service health (infrastructure, network, certificates, and applications) using enterprise monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Dynatrace, Splunk, Zabbix, SolarWinds, and ScienceLogic) and ServiceNow dashboards. 
• Detect, validate and correlate alerts/events to identify incidents early, reduce noise, and enable rapid triage before end users or clients are impacted. 
• Analyze incident trends, service degradation patterns, SLA performance, recurrence patterns, and operational risk indicators to identify systemic issues and improvement opportunities. 
• Produce actionable service insights and data-driven recommendations to support Operations Control, governance forums, and continuous improvement initiatives: (e.g., monitoring coverage, alert quality and response readiness).
• Maintain accurate operational data and reporting, ensuring categorization integrity and reliability of dashboards and metrics across ServiceNow and monitoring platforms.
• Support Incident and Major Incident Management by providing real-time operational insights from monitoring tools, validating timelines, and supporting post-incident analysis: (problem patterns, leading indicators, and detection gaps). 
• Configure, maintain, and optimize ServiceNow reporting, dashboards, KPIs, and analytics including integration/consumption of monitoring signals to improve detection and response performance.
• Support audit, risk, and compliance activities by providing validated operational artifacts and evidence from ServiceNow and monitoring platforms (alerts, timelines, performance reporting).

What you should have:

• A minimum of 7 years of progressive experience in IT Operations / IT Service Management with deep hands-on experience in Incident and Major Incident Management in an enterprise environment.
• An ITIL Foundation is required.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience configuring and operating ServiceNow ITSM, particularly Incident and Major Incident Management, including reporting/dashboards and integrating monitoring signals into operational workflows.
• Strong understanding of ServiceNow workflows, data model, automation, and reporting.
• Strong understanding of enterprise monitoring/observability concepts (event management, alert tuning, correlation, leading indicators) across infrastructure, network, certificates and applications.
• Experience operating in complex, regulated, or compliance driven environments.
• A proven ability to operate calmly and decisively during high pressure incident situations. 
• Strong analytical, facilitation, and communication skills in both official languages (English and French), with the ability to influence without direct authority.

It will be great if you also had:

• Experience coordinating vendors and managed service providers during incidents and service disruptions.
• Familiarity with cloud and hybrid environments and their operational monitoring and support considerations.
• An advanced ITIL or ITSM certifications considered an asset.

Posting closing date: Note, the competition will remain active until filled

This position may be designated for Standby and Call Back duties based on operational needs. Should such duties be assigned, they must be performed in accordance with CMHC policies, including the Standby and Call Back Pay Procedure.

Our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion 

We’re committed to employment equity and encourage women, Indigenous Peoples, persons with disabilities, veterans and persons of all races, ethnicities, religions, abilities, sexual orientations, and gender identities and expressions to apply. We also welcome applications from non-Canadians who are eligible to work in Canada.

CMHC is an inclusive workplace where diversity of thought – and of people – are recognized, valued, and considered essential to achieving our mission.

Learn more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion 

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