Senior Monitoring Tool Administrator
Dallas, TX

Job Description

Senior Monitoring Tool Administrator

Location: Dallas, TX

Duration: 6 months with possible contract to hire

Description:

* The Tools Operations team is seeking a monitoring tool administrator to support enterprise wide monitoring tools in the Disaster Recovery (DR) environment.
* The candidate should be skilled and experienced with monitoring tools like Riverbed/OPNET AppInternals and AppResponse, Riverbed Steelcentral Suite, CA UIM - NimSoft and Spectrum, HP SiteScope, and Elasticsearch (ELK).
* These includes but not limited to network and systems monitoring, database monitoring, synthetic transaction monitoring and application performance analysis of Java and .NET based applications.
* The qualifying engineer plans, coordinates and supports client's disaster recovery exercises for validation and troubleshooting of the monitoring tools.
* The engineer will also be a part of the core monitoring team involved in engineering and operations of monitoring, performance and log analytics tools.
* This also includes product upgrades and maintenance, troubleshoot system related problems, and will be responsible for the 24x7 availability of the tools infrastructure as part of an on-call rotation.
* Responsibilities also includes maintaining and developing automation scripts, maintenance and development of the monitoring web application, providing tier 3 troubleshooting and restoration of services, enabling additional monitoring capabilities for the infrastructure and applications based on the project requirements.
* The ideal candidate will be a highly effective communicator verbally and in writing, lead operational initiatives and projects, and act with the highest sense of accountability.
* The incumbent will take work assignments from management but is expected to work independently to define, drive, and execute initiatives.

Responsibilities:

* Lead all the DR related activities to validate, support and troubleshoot monitoring tools.
* Plan, coordinate and implement the product upgrades, patches and maintenance activities for the monitoring tools (CA - UIM/NIMSOFT, Spectrum, HP SiteScope, OPNET/Riverbed)
* Perform customization, configurations and develop scripts / interfaces as applicable to enhance monitoring capabilities.
* Work with Network, System and Storage administrators for routine operations such as performance tuning, upgrades and backup
* Assist the team in the roadmap, implantation and support of monitoring activities on cloud (AWS).
* Work with application teams to understand the Java/WebLogic framework and architecture of applications and recommend performance monitoring best practices accordingly.
* Develop and maintain BladeLogic jobs for installation of monitoring agents.
* Work towards automating repeatable processes and tasks using programming scripts.
* Be a highly cohesive team member and a change agent while serving as a subject matter expert (SME).
* Maintain all environments and handle all end-to-end aspects of monitoring as a service.
* Engage with projects, drive the deliverables, manage expectations with all stakeholders.
* Analyze application and infrastructure monitoring and performance needs engaging with application owners, design appropriate solutions, and work toward implementation.
* Work closely with server, network, database, and storage administrators for routine operations such as performance tuning, upgrades and backup.
* Plan Disaster Recovery, maintain documentation, and be prepared to conduct periodic testing.
* Setup governance model for application monitoring.
* Maintain Service level agreements with both customer and support organizations.
* Maintain licenses and provides monthly metrics on the tool usage.
* Maintain and document procedures, data profiles, design, and architecture.
* Provide on-call support for troubleshooting critical issues and planned maintenances.
* Lead all change through appropriate release and change management procedures.
* Communicate routinely and effectively to customers, team, inter-team, and management.

Required Qualifications:

* At least 5 to 7 years of experience in application, systems, and network performance monitoring tools in a large enterprise environment with emphasis on high-availability.
* Experience in Disaster Recovery planning, documentation, implementation, and periodic testing.
* Hands on experience with Riverbed, CA Spectrum, CA UIM, Riverbed SteelCentral Suite, Elastic Search (ELK), Sitescope, or similar tools for application, systems, performance & network monitoring.
* Strong System administration skills (Unix/Windows).
* Experience working in ITIL environment and with ITSM tools like ServiceNow.
* Solid understanding of Java/J2EE solutions using WebLogic and Tomcat web servers.
* Familiarity with SQL databases and commands and fundamentals of relational database design.
* Experience working with html/web-based technologies and the monitoring of it via synthetic test tools.
* Knowledge of monitoring docker containers environment with Kubernetes and/or openshift platforms.
* Strong verbal and written communication skills.
* Must be able to work effectively in a team environment.

Preferred Skills:

* Knowledge or experience with monitoring on AWS cloud.
* Experience AWS native services such as Cloudwatch, Cloudtrail, Cloudformation.
* Experience with open source tools like Prometheus, Icinga.
* Experience with Java development for automation scripts and web development.
* Strong scripting experience (batch/shell/Perl/Python).
* Application Development background.

Education:

* Technical Degree or the equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
* 7+ years of progressive experience in a similar environment as described above with at least 3 to 5 years as the subject matter expert.
* Industry certifications are desirable.

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