SRE Observability Technical Lead - Vice President

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The SRE Observability Specialist is a hands‑on expert, delivering the future of Observability across Services Technology. This role is a part of a central SRE enablement team within Services Production, working closely with SREs, developers, and platform teams to embed telemetry, implement SLOs, and build meaningful visualizations for key production flows — particularly in critical Payments Business.

• Define the roadmap for Engineering enablers for Project Orion team aligned with enterprise reliability and SRE Services organization goals.
• Translate Organization strategy into an actionable delivery plan in partnership with Services Products, Operations & Engineering function, delivering incremental, high‑value milestones.
• Understand Critical Business Services functional scope and translate into End‑to‑End monitoring solutions.
• Deliver against the observability roadmap for Services Technology by building scalable, reusable telemetry solutions.
• Periodic review and analyze application monitoring TOIL and collaborate with stakeholders and remediate them as per organization goal.
• Create and maintain dashboards and visualizations for critical client journeys, including real‑time flows across Payments.
• Guide line‑of‑business teams in implementing SLIs/SLOs, golden signals, and effective alerting to support operational excellence.
• Support integration and adoption of observability tooling across on‑prem, public cloud (AWS/GCP), and containerized environments (ECS, Kubernetes).
• Customize shared dashboards and observability components in partnership with CTI and other central Engineering functions, ensuring usability and flexibility.
• Provide technical support and implementation guidance to SREs and developers facing integration or tooling challenges.
• Effectively manage the observability book of work for Services Technology and drive initiatives to reduce MTTD and improve recovery outcomes.
• Serve as a key connection point between line‑of‑business SREs and central infrastructure functions by gathering tooling feedback, surfacing systemic issues, and influencing platform enhancements via the Services Observability Forum.
• Stay current with observability trends, including AI/ML‑driven insights, anomaly detection, and emerging OSS practices, and assess their applicability.
• Maintain strong knowledge of observability platform features and vendor offerings to advise teams and maximize the value of tooling investments.
• Foster AI adoption by building use cases performed by Orion L1 Functions and remediation using Citi AI tech stack.

• Experience in SRE, Observability Engineering, or platform infrastructure roles focused on operational telemetry.
• Hands‑on experience in observability tools and stacks such as Grafana, Prometheus, Open Telemetry, ELK, Splunk, and similar platforms.
• Deep understanding of SLIs, SLOs, Error Budgets, and telemetry best practices in high‑availability environments.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot integration issues and support observability across hybrid platforms (on‑prem, cloud, containers).
• Experience building dashboards aligned to business outcomes and incident workflows, especially in critical flows such as payments.
• Familiarity with modern observability tooling ecosystems, including AI/ML capabilities, trace correlation, baselining, and alert tuning.
• Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills – able to operate across federated engineering teams and central infrastructure groups.
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