Monitoring Lead / SME

We are looking for an experienced Monitoring Lead / SME to design, manage, and evolve our enterprise monitoring strategy using OpenText Tools (OBM, APM, SiteScope, OO & NNMi), Dynatrace, and SolarWinds. The candidate will be responsible for driving observability practices, managing a monitoring team, and ensuring high service availability for critical business applications and infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement the enterprise monitoring and observability strategy.
• Lead and mentor L1/L2 and mid-level support teams.
• Oversee monitoring design, integrations, and tool enhancements across OBM, Dynatrace, and SolarWinds.
• Collaborate with architects, DevOps, and application teams to implement full-stack observability solutions.
• Drive automation, self-healing, and AI/ML-based predictive monitoring initiatives.
• Present monitoring health, trends, and improvements to senior stakeholders.
• Ensure compliance with ITIL processes, SLAs, and audit requirements.
• Plan capacity, scalability, and roadmap for monitoring tools and practices.
• Expertise in designing and scaling monitoring with HP Sitescope across enterprise environments.
• Strong experience in integrating HP Operations Orchestration (OO) with monitoring tools for end-to-end automation.
• Ownership of HP Service Manager (SM) and Service Portal, ensuring process compliance, SLA adherence, and reporting to leadership.

Requirements

• Expertise in OBM (event/incident correlation), Dynatrace (APM, RUM, synthetic monitoring), and SolarWinds (NPM, SAM, DB monitoring).
• Strong understanding of enterprise IT landscapes - cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), on-prem, hybrid infrastructures.
• Proven leadership and team management experience.
• Experience with observability practices - logs, metrics, traces, distributed monitoring.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience: 7+ years in IT monitoring/observability, with at least 2-3 years in a leadership role.

Work Conditions
At the company, we believe strong connections and community are key to our success. Our work model prioritizes in-person collaboration while offering flexibility to support wellbeing, productivity, individual work styles, and life circumstances. We’re committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive.

Location
SAU - RIYADH