Head of Observability & SRE – Enterprise Resilience

Devopsroles; Jersey City (NJ); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

DTCC is seeking a Head of Observability & Site Reliability Engineering to lead enterprise observability, ensuring regulatory-grade visibility, resilience, and continuity across platforms and applications.

You will shape the north-star vision, drive modernization roadmaps (OpenTelemetry, AI-enabled signals), and embed telemetry governance across engineering teams and Business Operations.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of related experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field (preferred) or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Shape and champion DTCC’s enterprise observability strategy, ensuring alignment with operational resilience, business continuity, and regulatory expectations.
• Define multi-year roadmaps for observability modernization, including OpenTelemetry adoption, enhanced signal correlation, and AIOps-enablement.
• Establish enterprise-wide architectural standards, patterns, and controls for telemetry, monitoring, alerting, visualization, and retention.
• Drive platform-engineering approaches that deliver observability as a scalable, self-service capability for application and infrastructure teams.
• Ensure all critical production services are instrumented for real-time visibility that connects technical health to business impact.

Skills

Java

Linux

SQL

Scripting

Hybrid-cloud

Public cloud

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Job description

DTCC is seeking a Head of Observability & Site Reliability Engineering to lead enterprise observability, ensuring regulatory-grade visibility, resilience, and continuity across platforms and applications.

You will shape the north-star vision, drive modernization roadmaps (OpenTelemetry, AI-enabled signals), and embed telemetry governance across engineering teams and Business Operations.