Senior Director Observability SRE

Gap Inc

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Gap Inc. is a leading global specialty retailer offering clothing, accessories, and personal care products for men, women, and children

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TL;DR · Senior Director Observability SRE

The Senior Director – Observability | SRE is a strategic leader responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of the enterprise technology ecosystem. This role oversees Observability, Site Reliability Engineering, Visibility, and Live Sight Insights to drive operational excellence through automation, process discipline, and real-time insights. The individual will define the enterprise strategy, lead transformation for unified observability, and manage the Mission Control organization to provide predictive intelligence on service health across ecommerce, fulfillment centers, and stores. Key responsibilities include establishing standards for availability, latency, and scalability while fostering a culture of data-driven decision making. The role requires expertise in ITIL frameworks, SRE principles, architecture, cloud operations, and automation. This position solves the critical problem of maintaining seamless digital and in-store experiences by proactively reducing mean time to resolve through advanced monitoring and infrastructure management.

What you'll do

  • Define and execute the enterprise Observability and SRE strategy aligned with business objectives.
  • Lead the transformation of Unified Observability to detect anomalies and reduce mean time to resolve.
  • Drive Site Reliability Engineering practices including automation, self-healing capabilities, and proactive monitoring.
  • Establish standards for availability, latency, scalability, and operational efficiency across all platforms.
  • Oversee Mission Control operations to provide real-time monitoring and predictive insights for ecommerce, fulfillment, and stores.
  • Develop intuitive dashboards and business-impact-based alerting models to provide enterprise visibility of key metrics.
  • Build and mentor a high-performing global team focused on data-driven decision making and reliability engineering.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to integrate reliability objectives into product development and infrastructure planning.

What we're looking for

  • Proven strategic leader with success driving operational transformation at scale in global, complex environments for more than 10 years.
  • Deep expertise in ITIL frameworks, SRE principles, architecture, and modern observability practices.
  • Strong technical understanding of infrastructure, cloud operations, automation, and service management ecosystems.
  • Exceptional ability to influence all levels by translating technical reliability concepts into business impact and strategic value.
  • Demonstrated track record of leading large, diverse teams and delivering measurable improvements in service reliability and performance.
  • High performing leader with executive presence and the ability to build organizational alignment through clarity and accountability.

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