Monitoring Engineer

Job Description

Relevant Experience: 6-11 years

Responsibilities

As an Information Systems Engineer for Monitoring, you will:

• Configure infrastructure, network, database, application, log and synthetic monitoring.

• Create and support required dashboards with data visualization.

• Research new features and integrations in monitoring tools.

• Prepare and conduct system and programming tests requiring interfacing of hardware and software.

• Work closely with Global Information Security to implement solutions that enhance SAS' security posture.

• Diagnose and resolve user and operational problems.

• Provide support to production issues and major incidents.

• Interact with cross-teams for understanding requirements, testing, and implementation.

• Identify automation and standardization opportunities in daily tasks.

• Enhance monitoring and identify operational gaps to ensure stability and performance.

• Provide software support for assigned products, including installation, maintenance, documentation, customization, and utilization of product features.

• Mentor other engineers in the team.

• Document new and existing O&M solutions for the team and our internal customers.

• Determine how new solutions will have implications on operational support and provide processes for mitigation.

• Develop automation scripts and configurations to deploy and manage monitoring solutions efficiently.

• Follow and promote monitoring best practices across the organization.

Required qualifications:

• 5 years of experience in a Site Reliability Engineer or related role.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field.

• Equivalent combination of related education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications.

• Strong knowledge of Datadog

• Strong scripting and automation skills (e.g., Python, API, Bash, PowerShell).

• Working knowledge of ServiceNow ITOM Event Management and ITIL concepts.

• Experience with container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes) and cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP).

• Familiarity with distributed systems, microservices architecture, and modern application development practices.

• Willingness to be a member of an on-call rotation.

• You're curious, passionate, authentic, and accountable. These are our values and influence everything we do.

Preferred qualifications

• Strong knowledge of Zabbix and other monitoring tools.

• Certification in relevant monitoring technologies

• Knowledge of AIOps (Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations) concepts.

• Working knowledge on DevOps, continuous deployment and monitoring.

• Knowledge of other monitoring tools such as Grafana, ELK stack, New Relic, etc.

• General knowledge of networking and firewalls.

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