Team Leader Enterprise Cloud Servies Observability

In this formal leadership role you will lead a team of engineers and agile team members while establishing a unified observability strategy and platform for engineering across the organization. Defines the roadmap and governance model for telemetry collection correlation retention and access; develops standards for service instrumentation tagging and golden signals; and implements SLO/SLI frameworks that connect reliability targets to customer experience and business outcomes. Builds reusable tooling and enablement (dashboards alert libraries runbooks automation and self-service onboarding) that empowers teams to detect issues early respond consistently and learn from incidents through blameless postmortems and continuous improvement. Partners with product owners solution architects security and operations leaders to align observability investments to strategic priorities strengthen resilience and manage telemetry cost and performance at scalewhile coaching and developing team members and cultivating a culture of accountability inclusion and excellence.  

Qualifications :

Preferred:   

• Prior formal leadership experience; creating clear expectations and leading toward results.
• Experience designing implementing or governing observability platforms at scale including metrics logs and distributed tracing across multi-cloud or hybrid architectures 
• Strong analytical mindset with experience using observability and analytics tools (e.g. Azure Monitor Application Insights Datadog Grafana Prometheus Splunk New Relic or similar) to drive operational and reliability improvements 
• Proven ability to define and operationalize service level indicators (SLIs) service level objectives (SLOs) and error budgets and to connect these frameworks to customer experience and business outcomes 
• Background in site reliability engineering (SRE) observability engineering distributed systems or platform engineering with the ability to operate effectively in complex cloud-native environments 
• Experience establishing instrumentation standards telemetry schemas and tagging strategies to enable effective correlation root-cause analysis and cross-service visibility 
• Ability to evaluate observability tools and platforms from scalability performance usability and cost-efficiency perspectivesnot solely technical implementation 
• Experience building reusable observability assets such as dashboards alerting frameworks runbooks and self-service onboarding capabilities for engineering teams 
• Experience working in regulated industries (e.g. healthcare finance) with an understanding of logging monitoring and data retention requirements for compliance and security 
• Familiarity with incident management practices including alert tuning on-call models blameless postmortems and continuous improvement processes 
• Understanding of telemetry lifecycle management including data ingestion sampling retention and cost-performance optimization 

Required:  

• Bachelors degree in computer science information technology or related field or direct and applicable work experience.  
• Minimum 7 years of experience in cloud engineering DevOps or infrastructure roles.  
• Informal leadership experience typically gained through project management or by coaching/mentoring others by providing guidance and feedback to help an employee to strengthen their knowledge and skills.  
• Experience leading teams in an agile software development environment. Experience with frameworks in the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) supporting Agile Release Trains and aligning designs with Lean-Agile principles.  
• Demonstrated ability to build product roadmaps.   
• Hands on experience with AWS Azure or GCP services and architecture.   
• Strong understanding of CI/CD infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform CloudFormation) and container orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes).   
• Strong collaboration skills with ability to build relationships across technology divisions.  
• Proven experience leading platform/shared service teams either informally or formally and delivering enterprise-scale solutions. Ability to think strategically and effectively communicate strategy and direction to a team.  
• Stays informed on emerging technology trends and skillsets. Proven experience implementing change initiatives and supporting a culture of innovation and creativity. Encourages team to accept and resolve challenges.  
• Ability to think strategically to communicate organize and implement/accomplish long-range goals.  
• Effective consulting critical thinking and problem solving skills. Uses data effectively and demonstrates sound judgment and decision making to drive positive outcomes.  
• Demonstrated success influencing at all levels of the organization. Builds trust alignment commitment and action from others.  
• Prior experience measuring and evaluating work processes to achieve organizational goals.  
• Proven ability to be adaptable to unexpected changes or situations. Adjusts effectively to work within work structures business processes work requirements and culture.   
• Travel required up to 5%.  

Additional Information :

a. Provide  leadership and day-to-day management of financial and human resources primarily  focusing on employee coaching development performance improvement coordination and budgeting for staff and team specific services. Support business objectives and produce results that are effective accurate and timely and on target to meet HR team and stakeholder needs.  

b. Ensure the team delivers incremental value aligned to cloud strategy product roadmaps and stakeholder needs. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to remove impediments and improve delivery velocity.  

c. Translate business objectives into actionable cloud initiatives and resourcing plans.  

d. Oversee delivery of cloud solutions using AWS Azure or GCP ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and security standards.  

e. Partner with architects to review designs and ensure solutions meet performance cost and compliance requirements.  

f. Champion automation infrastructure-as-code and DevOps practices to improve efficiency and reliability.  

g. Monitor cloud spend capacity and performance proactively addressing risks and cost optimization opportunities.  

h. Serve as a liaison between the cloud engineering teams and senior technology leadership.  

i. Other duties as assigned. 

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time