Observability Lead Engineer

Japan Observability regional lead Engineer within the Group Platform Services & Engineering division which provides the Nomura group common services to Development, Infrastructure and Production Services.

This is a technical team lead position responsible for engineering, design, development and integration of the Observability platform.

The successful candidate will have a vital role in shaping future Observability strategy and direction within the Nomura Group.

A fantastic opportunity for somebody with 10+ years experience to work with state of the art technologies to deliver industry leading solutions in the Telemetry, Observability and Monitoring space (known as TOM internally).

The successful candidate would join a recently formed team of enthusiastic forward thinking SREs & Engineers who are working to radically transform how the Nomura Group manages the operation of its estate.

This will evolve into full AI Ops Capability with automated anomaly detection, automated impact and root cause analysis and machine learning generated resolutions.

This is a global team consisting of 20 team members bringing change across the organisation.

The candidate will be the regional lead of our Tokyo based TOM Engineering team and shall be responsible for engineering the various tools and technologies that make up the TOM suite and adapting them for use in Asia and Nomura Retail.

The candidate will work closely with their peers in other regions as well as with the other development teams to facilitate the strategic objectives of the team.

The observability platform consists of tools from vendor, open source and in house.

These tools include Grafana UI, Loki, Mimir, Tempo, Sloth, RightITNow, EverBridge and Open Telemetry.

Lead the team of Japanese Engineers responsible for introducing leading edge observability tools.

Part of the global group wide Observability team.

Engineer solutions for adoption of best practices in Observability and Monitoring by companies within the Nomura Group

Propose, design, and implement additions to evolve observability platform

Drive adoption of best practices in Observability across the organisation

Contribute to Observability standards and procedures

Working with the SRE team to optimize the operation model

Mentor engineers on best practices, standards and procedures

Reporting to Group Head of Observability