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Supervisor - Observability & Tooling

Supervisor - Observability & Tooling

RELX
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Job Description

What You'll Do

Team Leadership

  • Supervise and manage the Cloud Observability Engineering team and the ServiceNow Administration/Development team, setting priorities and assigning work.
  • Recruit, onboard, coach, and develop team members; conduct performance reviews and support career growth.
  • Act as the primary escalation point for both teams, removing blockers and ensuring timely delivery of initiatives.
  • Foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and knowledge sharing across both disciplines.

Observability Program Oversight

  • Oversee the strategy, design, and operation of the organization's observability platforms, including Coralogix, Quickwit, and CloudWatch.
  • Ensure consistent instrumentation and quality of metrics, traces, and logs across services, and guide the team's use of OpenTelemetry for standardized telemetry collection.
  • Guide the team's approach to context propagation and baggage to support accurate distributed tracing across services.
  • Oversee cardinality management practices to control telemetry cost, storage, and query performance.
  • Ensure observability practices extend appropriately across cloud, container, and Kubernetes environments.
  • Partner with engineering, SRE, and platform teams to define alerting standards, dashboards, and SLO/SLA frameworks.

ServiceNow Platform Oversight

  • Oversee administration and development activities on the ServiceNow platform, including ITSM/ITOM workflows, custom applications, and integrations.
  • Ensure platform governance, change control, upgrade planning, and adherence to best practices.
  • Coordinate with business stakeholders to translate process requirements into ServiceNow platform capabilities.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

  • Represent both teams in planning, budgeting, roadmap, and vendor discussions.
  • Report on team performance, platform health, and key initiatives to leadership.
  • Collaborate with adjacent engineering, infrastructure, and IT service management teams to align priorities.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
  • Prior experience supervising, managing, or leading a technical team (observability, SRE, platform engineering, or ITSM).
  • Solid working knowledge of observability fundamentals: metrics, traces, logs, and context/baggage propagation for distributed tracing.
  • Solid knowledge and understanding of Cloud technology concepts
  • Familiarity with observability platforms such as Coralogix, Quickwit, and/or CloudWatch (or comparable tools such as Datadog, Grafana, or Splunk).
  • Working knowledge of OpenTelemetry concepts and instrumentation practices.
  • Understanding of cloud technologies, containerization, and Kubernetes at a level sufficient to guide engineering decisions and hold technical conversations.
  • Understanding of cardinality and its impact on telemetry systems, cost, and performance.
  • Familiarity with ServiceNow administration and/or development concepts (ITSM/ITOM workflows, platform governance).
  • Strong communication, prioritization, and stakeholder-management skills.
  • Ability to quickly learn and apply enterprise AI tools and technologies to support technical workflows and business objectives

Preferred Qualifications

  • Hands-on engineering experience building or operating observability pipelines, instrumentation, or ServiceNow customizations (a plus, not required).
  • Experience with ServiceNow ITSM/ITOM modules, Flow Designer, or scripted integrations.
  • Relevant certifications such as CKA, AWS/Azure/GCP certifications, ITIL Foundation, or ServiceNow CSA/CAD.
  • Experience operating in a regulated or enterprise-scale environment.

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