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Technology Engineering Associate Director, Observability and Event Management

North Chicago, IL, us💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-07 → 2026-09-26

Core

Technical authority for enterprise observability and event management, ensuring platforms and infrastructure are measurable, predictable, and resilient through proactive detection and automated remediation.

Role type

Senior IC Associate Director (Observability & Event Management)

Builds

Enterprise monitoring, telemetry, and event lifecycle capabilities

Domain

IT Operations / Observability / AIOps

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, event correlation, AIOps, automation frameworks, ITIL Event Management, vendor management, team leadership, technical strategy

Preferred skills

Experience with Datadog, Dynatrace, Grafana, or SolarWinds, translating telemetry into insights, bridging technical and business audiences

Technologies

OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Dynatrace, Grafana, SolarWinds

Responsibilities

Own observability strategy across logs, metrics, traces, and digital experience monitoring; Lead engineering of modern telemetry pipelines; Drive automation-first approaches for alerting and remediation; Partner with platform teams to embed observability; Lead and develop a team responsible for enterprise observability services; Mentor engineers towards proactive reliability.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with management responsibilities

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