We are looking for a Head of Observability Platform to lead observability as a business-critical platform capability across our globally distributed trading environment.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading engineering, SRE, platform, infrastructure, or observability teams in a complex technical environment.
- Experience owning or shaping a platform capability, including strategy, roadmap, architecture, operating model, adoption, governance, and measurable outcomes.
- Deep understanding of modern observability practices across logs, metrics, traces, events, alerting, dashboards, telemetry pipelines, diagnostics, instrumentation quality, and service health.
- Experience designing or leading large-scale observability platforms, including ingest pipelines, storage backends, query systems, retention models, visualization, alerting, resilience, and scale-related trade-offs.
- Strong technical judgement, people leadership, and delivery discipline.
- Ability to influence without direct control across engineering teams.
- A pragmatic approach to platform adoption, balancing global standardisation with regional autonomy, local production needs, and existing systems.
Benefits
- Performance-based bonus structure
- Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities
- Daily breakfast, lunch and an in-house barista
- Gym membership plus weekly in-house chair massages
- Regular social events, including a company trip every two years
- Guided relocation, a competitive relocation package and visa sponsorship where necessary