Head of Enterprise Monitoring and Observability
Listed on 2026-09-11
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IT/Tech
SRE/Site Reliability, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations, Cybersecurity, Systems Engineer
Head of Enterprise Monitoring and Observability
Reports To
Head of Technology Operations
Department
Enterprise Technology
Position SummaryThe Head of Enterprise Monitoring and Observability is responsible for defining and executing the enterprise observability strategy, operating model, and platform roadmap that enable proactive, predictive, and resilient technology operations.
This leader owns the enterprise capabilities for monitoring, telemetry, event intelligence, operational analytics, and observability engineering, ensuring technology services are observable, measurable, actionable, and continuously improving.
The role serves as the operational intelligence leader across Enterprise Technology, providing the platforms, standards, insights, and governance required to improve service reliability, accelerate issue detection and resolution, and support modern operational practices.
This leader partners closely with infrastructure, cloud, middleware, application, security, resiliency, and service management teams to build a unified enterprise-wide observability capability.
Enterprise Observability Strategy- Define and execute the enterprise observability vision, strategy, operating model, and multi-year roadmap.
- Establish standards and governance for monitoring, logging, metrics, tracing, telemetry, alerting, and service observability.
- Lead the evolution of observability capabilities from reactive monitoring toward proactive, predictive, and automated operations.
- Drive enterprise adoption of modern observability practices, frameworks, and engineering standards.
- Own the strategy, architecture, lifecycle, and operation of enterprise monitoring and observability platforms.
- Lead platform modernization, tool rationalization, capability expansion, and service offering improvements.
- Manage vendor relationships, contracts, platform investments, and cost optimization efforts.
- Ensure scalability, availability, resilience, and ongoing enhancement of observability tooling and services.
- Establish enterprise monitoring and instrumentation standards across infrastructure, cloud, middleware, applications, databases, and digital services.
- Improve monitoring coverage, telemetry quality, alert effectiveness, signal quality, and operational visibility.
- Drive adoption of distributed tracing, service dependency mapping, and end-to-end transaction monitoring.
- Ensure service health and operational data are consistently available across the technology landscape.
- Lead implementation of operational analytics, event intelligence, anomaly detection, predictive insights, and AIOps capabilities.
- Develop dashboards, scorecards, and reporting that provide actionable operational intelligence to technology leadership.
- Enable intelligent event correlation, noise reduction, automated diagnostics, and automated operational workflows.
- Partner with engineering and operations teams to use observability data for continuous improvement and outage prevention.
- Partner with technology teams to improve detection, response, recovery, and root cause analysis capabilities.
- Establish observability practices that improve service reliability, operational resilience, and customer experience.
- Drive post-incident learning and identification of automation opportunities.
- Provide enterprise visibility into technology health, performance trends, capacity risks, and reliability risks.
- Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team of observability engineers, platform engineers, and operational intelligence specialists.
- Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, operational excellence, continuous…
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