100% Remote Monitoring Engineer

Company: Eliassen Group
Location: Washington
Posted on: August 7, 2022

Job Description:

Eliassen Group is looking for an experienced Monitoring Engineer. The Monitoring Engineer is a self-starter willing to take the initiative. The core purpose of the role is to ensure that our applications, platforms, and infrastructure are effectively monitored for availability, performance, and functionality, and that alerts driven by our monitoring systems are accurate and actionable. To succeed in this role the post-holder needs to be creative, clever, passionate and love building new solutions.
Key Responsibilities
--- Design, roadmap, and administers tools used in discovering and monitoring E-Risk's applications, services, platforms, and infrastructure--- Administer, Build and Support monitoring systems that assist in infrastructure and application event detection and alert remediation--- Ensure all relevant infrastructure and services are properly covered within our monitoring and alerting systems in a manner consistent with our standards; collect the right metrics at the right frequency and ensure the data is readily available for effective alerting, reporting, and analysis--- Define business and operations success metrics, Establishes departmental process model for benchmarking, standardization, and process improvements.--- Collaborate with a cross-functional team of Ops, Engineers, and architects to understand complex application architectures to implement an effective top-down monitoring strategy of holistic service visibility--- Participate in strategy and future implementation discussions for the redesign and implementation of monitoring environments to modernize with latest technology trends--- Leveraging performance counters to diagnose and troubleshoot infrastructure problems.--- Create/maintain documentation for monitoring requirements, processes, and implementation.--- Assist in the deployment, organization, and management of standard operating procedures--- Perform other duties as needed
Qualifications
--- Solid Experience working with Rapid7 for security monitoring and ManageEngine OpManager for monitoring of routers, switches, firewalls, servers, and VMs for fault and performance-Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or closely related degree or equivalent work experience--- Minimum of 5 years of experience in system administration and/or engineering in an enterprise production environment--- Experience in the use of network management protocols (e.g. SNMP, WMI, Syslog, ICMP, NetFlow, etc.)--- In-depth experience installing, configuring, and maintaining monitoring tools with at least some of the following: SolarWinds, Splunk, New Relic, Datadog, and ServiceNow--- Strong distributed systems and architecture knowledge and experience (networking, storage, operating systems)--- Hands on scripting/automation experience with one or more of the following: Python, PowerShell, BASH--- Excellent verbal, written, interpersonal communication and customer service skills--- Strong organizational and conceptual skills combined with proven critical thinking, analytic, problem solving, and decision-making abilities--- Ability to multitask within related functions--- Strong presentation and communication skills, ability to interface with internal and external groups

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