WHAT YOU WILL DO?*PURPOSEAs a Manager of Enterprise Monitoring and Observability within the Bank Command Center, you will be responsible for leading the Monitoring and Observability practice and capability across the Bank enterprise within Systems Operations and Management. The role will establish monitoring and observability, proactive solutions, alerting, automation, and site reliability for business-critical systems and platforms. You will be responsible for managing and developing team members and project resources for delivery, onboarding, and continuous improvement for operational plans to meet the business objectives of the Bank.You will engage with the following stakeholders:Executive Management Internal and ExternalCommand Center ManagementIncident and Problem ManagementChange ManagementProduct Management and respective headsTechnical Heads, Technical resourcesAll clients and key supporting vendorsRelevant regulatory bodies (SARB, PASA)Your key responsibilities include:Manage, lead, and set priorities for the Monitoring and Observability team specifically focused on monitoring and observability, proactive solutions, alerting, automation, and site reliability/resilience.Coach, train and develop direct reports (includes appraising job performance and conducting performance reviews)Lead a team to develop enterprise logging, metrics, and traces for business-critical systems as well as dashboards (visibility) for different levels of support.Work with infrastructure, product, and support teams to define tools and strategy to ensure full observability, alerting, and proactive monitoring of business-critical systems.Integrate full observability and proactive monitoring practice within Systems Operations and Management to ensure tracking and timely communication of events, outages, and issues.Collaborate with Business and IT stakeholders to define thresholds, SLAs, and runbooks and help proactively identify issues and drive down reoccurring incidents.Lead oversight of third-party vendors' work to ensure vendors fulfil contractual commitments and statements of work (SOW)Assist with monitoring events (e.g., warnings and exceptions) and identify routine activities and resolutions that can be automated to improve system and process efficiencies for the Command Centre.Serve as a subject matter expert and maintain knowledge of current industry trends and developing or related technologies.Ensure all activities are in compliance with rules, regulations, policies, procedures, and service resilience.Serve as a Service Experience Owner for Monitoring and Observability platforms.Serve as Project Leader to Plan, Organize, Lead and Control projects and initiatives for Enterprise Monitoring and ObservabilityOwn Product lifecycle management, renewal, support contracts, vendor negotiations and product strategyOwn the Process management and Documentation for all aspects of the Service, ie. Enterprise Monitoring and ObservabilityDrive and own the modernization of reporting and digital customer experience channels to continuously improve the customer satisfaction index.Develop and adopt into the organization the strategic roadmap for Enterprise Monitoring and Observability with Senior StakeholdersOwn the transition and transformation of the service to all business departments.Own for transformation initiative focusing on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.Responsible for the training and mentoring of Command Center and Operations Teams on existing and new developments within the Service Scope. QUALIFICATIONS / KNOWLEDGEBachelor's degree or associate degree required; field of study in technology requiredMinimum five years' experience in technology or related fields required.Minimum three years' experience managing people preferred.Minimum AWS Solution Architect Associate preferred.Minimum Site Reliability Engineer Foundation preferred.Minimum AWS Certified DevOps Engineer desired.Intermediate knowledge of ITSM/ITIL/ITOM, Devops, DevSecOps, Automation and ReportingIntermediate knowledge of Observability and Monitoring Tools Grafana Enterprise, Dynatrace, Datadog, NewRelic, Opsgenie, or similar and AWS CloudWatch, Network and Server Monitoring Tools,Intermediate knowledge of AWS Cloud Technologies, Azure Cloud and Microsoft365Working knowledge of service-oriented architecture (SOA), microservices, and/or API network design paradigmWorking knowledge of network protocols/technology, databases, and application servers and their roles in service deliveryExperience using cloud native technologies (Kubernetes, Terraform, OpenTelemetry, eBPF, GitHub) in a production environment.EXPERIENCE5 to 8 years of experience with development teams and systems owners.Required Experience with enterprise environments and critical-mission platforms both on premises and cloud.Experience with financial services hosting providers or payment services providers.Management of technical teamsPerformance reporting and Intelligent trend analysisSkilled in negotiating with internal and external stakeholders or business partners.