Global Observability Team Lead

About the role

Optiver is a global market maker founded in Amsterdam, with offices in London, Chicago, Austin, New York, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei and Mumbai. Established in 1986, today we are a leading liquidity provider, with close to 2,000 employees in offices around the world, united in our commitment to improve the market through competitive pricing, execution and risk management. By providing liquidity on multiple exchanges across the world in various financial instruments we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign currencies. Optiver's Sydney office is one of the primary players within Asian markets, trading a range of products. Established in 1996, we're an active participant on the Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Japan exchanges, and act as Optiver's APAC head office.

Responsibilities

• We are looking for a Head of Observability Platform to lead observability as a business-critical platform capability across our globally distributed trading environment.
• Your goal is to transform observability into a globally consistent, regionally federated platform capability. Your work will improve production diagnosis, reduce operational risk, increase platform resilience, improve developer experience, and strengthen confidence in Optiver's trading systems.
• In this role, you will:
• Set the global strategy, architecture, operating model, and roadmap for Optiver's observability platform.
• Lead and develop a globally distributed team of engineers, shaping team mandate, ways of working, and capability.
• Define what "good observability" means at Optiver, including expectations for telemetry quality, instrumentation, alerting, dashboards, service health, and diagnostic workflows.
• Guide technical direction across telemetry collection, ingestion, storage, query, visualization, alerting, eventing, automation, and platform reliability.
• Improve the reliability, scalability, performance, and cost-effectiveness of the platform as adoption and telemetry volumes grow.
• Improve developer and operator experience through self-service workflows, golden paths, documentation, reusable patterns, APIs, dashboards, and investigation tooling.
• Partner with engineering teams to drive adoption.

Requirements

• You are an experienced technical leader who combines platform strategy, architectural judgement, people leadership, and delivery discipline. You are comfortable setting long-term direction while engaging deeply enough to challenge designs, make trade-offs, and help teams execute.
• You will bring:
• 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, rete

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