Monitoring Engineer

The purpose of this role is to implement and maintain an end-to-end application and infrastructure monitoring framework.

 

• Support and enhance existing monitoring infrastructure (Nagios, Cacti)
• Evaluate new tools and technology to provide application and infrastructure monitoring.
• Build log mining tools
• Responsible for building and maintaining support tools integrations (monitoring, ticketing, dashboard)
• Develop components of enterprise monitoring
• Develop cross-platform monitoring architecture for virtualized compute and storage infrastructure and develop rules, alerts, and notifications
• Develop components of application monitoring and develop rules, alerts, and notifications.

Collaborate with engineering teams on monitoring requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
• 3+ years of experience in enterprise environment is required with several Unix platforms (RHEL, AIX, Solaris) and Wintel.
• 3+ years of experience with working with monitoring solutions (Nagios, Zenoss, Cacti)
• 3+ years experience developing tools and scripts in Shell scripts, Python, or Perl.
• Strong understanding of monitoring interfaces SNMP, SSH
• Strong TCP/IP and SNMP skills are required
• Experience with configuration management systems – Chef, Puppet, CFEngine
• Knowledge of Virtualization, Cisco platform and VMware is a plus
• Experience with MySql or equivalent is a plus
• Great verbal and written communication skills