Sr Observability Engineer

Stifel Financial Corp.; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A global wealth management firm located in St. Louis is seeking a Senior Observability Engineer to drive the design and implementation of observability solutions. This role will optimize monitoring tools, ensuring alignment with business goals, and foster a data-driven culture. Candidates should have a strong background in observability practices and cloud platforms, as well as excellent communication skills. This is a full-time mid-senior level position offering competitive remuneration and opportunities for career growth.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years' of experience in IT Operations, SRE, or similar roles.
• Strong understanding of metrics, tracing, and logging.
• Experience with cloud and ITOM platforms required.

Responsibilities

• Support design and optimization of observability solutions.
• Drive product vision, roadmap, and adoption of platforms.
• Enable self-service observability for engineering teams.

Skills

Observability tools and practices

Cloud monitoring experience

DevOps knowledge

Stakeholder engagement

Excellent communication

AWS and Azure administration

Infrastructure as Code

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT or related field

Tools

AWS CloudWatch

Datadog

Grafana

Prometheus

Splunk

Job description

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What You'll Be Doing

The Sr Observability Engineer will support the design, implementation, and optimization of enterprise observability solutions. This role will drive the product vision, roadmap, and adoption of monitoring platforms, ensuring alignment with business goals and IT strategy. They will champion observability best practices and foster a data‑driven culture across teams. Additionally, this role must provide senior level engineering support for the platform(s) and tools enabling integration and usage.

What We're Looking For

• Develop and execute the enterprise observability strategy.
• Architect and maintain observability frameworks for cloud and on‑premises environments.
• Integrate and automate monitoring tools (e.g., AWS CloudWatch, Halo ITSM, Apex AIOps, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk).
• Define and track business‑aligned KPIs; communicate value to stakeholders.
• Enable self‑service observability for engineering teams.
• Own and prioritize the product backlog for observability initiatives.
• Collaborate with IT, Security, Application, and business teams.
• Ensure compliance with data governance and privacy standards.
• Continuously improve observability practices based on feedback and outcomes.

What You'll Bring

• Strong background in observability tools and practices (metrics, tracing, logging).
• Experience with cloud monitoring and ITOM platforms.
• Solid understanding of DevOps and automation.
• Proven product ownership and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Excellent communication and leadership abilities.
• Administration experience with AWS and Azure environments.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code.

Education & Experience

• Minimum Required: Bachelor's degree in IT or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum Required: 5+ years' of experience in IT Operations, SRE, or similar roles.

Licenses & Credentials

• Minimum Required: None.

Systems & Technology

• Demonstrated experience with observability platforms, cloud, infrastructure, complex network, automation and infrastructure as code, data pipelines, security and compliance, event management and visualization.
• Familiarity with KPI frameworks and CMDB integrations.
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, CKA, ITIL, or relevant vendor certifications (preferred, not required).

About Stifel

Stifel is more than 130 years old and still thinking like a start‑up. We are a global wealth management and investment banking firm serious about innovation and fresh ideas. Built on a simple premise of safeguarding our clients' money as if it were our own, coined by our namesake, Herman Stifel, our success is intimately tied to our commitment to helping families, companies, and municipalities find their own success. While our headquarters is in St. Louis, we have offices in New York, San Francisco, Baltimore, London, Frankfurt, Toronto, and more than 400 other locations. Stifel is home to approximately 9,000 individuals who are currently building their careers as financial advisors, research analysts, project managers, marketing specialists, developers, bankers, operations associates, among hundreds more. Let's talk about how you can find your place here at Stifel, where success meets success.

Stifel is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Seniority Level

• Mid‑Senior level

Employment Type

• Full‑time

Job Function

• Engineering and Information Technology

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