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Mizuho · 1 day ago

Observability Engineering Lead

New York, NY

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$160K/yr - $190K/yr

8+ years exp

Mizuho is a leading financial services company that is seeking an Observability Engineering Lead to join their Infrastructure Engineering and Cloud Enablement organization. The role involves designing and implementing observability solutions, engaging with various teams to enhance observability capabilities, and ensuring alignment with best practices across the organization.

BankingFinancial ServicesImpact Investing

Comp. & Benefits

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Provide expert knowledge on observability approaches, standards and platforms, to ensure our organization achieves its goals and roadmap for improving our observability maturity. This involves translating organizational strategy and architecture into efficient, resilient, and secure technical implementations

Provide guidance and set standards on telemetry lifecycle management activities such as managing the retention and granularity of telemetry being collected and stored according to different use cases

Design, build, and improve existing observability solutions. This includes developing observability strategies such as OpenTelemetry, eBPF, and use of monitoring-as-code (MaC) with a shift-left mindset in collaboration with platform engineering teams

Support application and enterprise architects in designing reusable observability artifacts and working on new solutions, including analyzing observability requirements and supporting technical architecture activities

Work closely with network, application, infrastructure, data, and security specialists to design, implement and ensure observability activities meet requirements and align with best practices in these areas

Qualification

Observability architectureObservability toolsInfrastructure-as-codeCI/CD toolsAnalytical skillsStakeholder engagementLeadership skillsCommunication skills

Required

8 or more years of related experience as an Observability Engineer or similar role in Infrastructure Engineering, Operations or SRE environments

Observability implementation or migration project experience (greenfield, tool consolidation…)

Experience with popular observability tools and platforms (Prometheus, Telegraf, Grafana stack, ELK, Azure Monitor…)

Experience with popular observability protocols, formats, and standards (OpenTelemetry, eBPF, Prometheus…)

Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation approaches (Ansible, Python, Terraform…) and CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps and Git-based workflows)

Strong architectural skills and an ability to design scalable, reusable solutions

Proactive and detail-oriented, strong analytical skills, and the ability to use a data-driven approach

Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills, with an ability to collaborate with internal customers, including infra, app, data, and security teams, to design, implement, and operationalize observability capabilities

Preferred

Exposure to various monitoring platforms is preferred (SolarWinds, OpsRamp, ExtraHop…)

Exposure to CSPs (Azure), virtualization (VMWare), and containerization technologies (K8s, OpenShift) is preferred

Benefits

A generous employee benefits package

A discretionary bonus

Company

Mizuho

This is not your typical financial institution. It’s our people who make us a cut above.

Tokyo, Tokyo, JPN

10001+ employees

https://www.mizuhogroup.com

H1B Sponsorship

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