Systems Monitoring Engineer Advanced Monitoring Solutions

Recruiter
Cognizant
Location
Basildon
Salary
Competitive
Posted
09 Sep 2020
Closes
06 Oct 2020
Sectors
Engineering
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time

Become part of Advanced Monitoring Solutions team contributing to IT Operations success by implementing monitoring for the applications across varying technology stack, using client's approved standard set of monitoring tools such as Splunk, AppDynamics, Thousand eyes, NetScout etc. The monitoring solutions need to enable the operations teams to proactively identify and remediate issues. Lead, design, develop and implement solutions in a complex environments consisting of various technologies, using a wide range of monitoring solutions such as dashboarding, alerting, creating custom solutions to ensure operations teams can monitor the health of the applications across the organization. Additionally, responsible to create dashboards / reports to help technology and business leadership to understand the customer impact during an outage.

As a technical expert, leverage evolving machine learning technologies and improve customer experience by implementing solutions to reduce time to detect, investigate and resolution. Work closely with Leadership team, Enterprise Architects, Technical leads, Developers, Product owners, Account Executives, Operation teams to build and implement end to end Monitoring Solutions.

Mentor own team and other teams on monitoring tools, to effectively use and interpret the data from tools.

Key Responsibilities:

?? Identify and Coordinate instrumentation efforts for all applications with monitoring tools.

?? Develop end to end monitoring dashboards, alerts and reports in Splunk, AppDynamics, Thousand eyes etc as applicable.

?? Develop predictive analytic approach using advanced Machine Learning techniques.

?? Develop monitoring both on-premise and cloud applications.

?? Provide subject matter expertise and serve as main point of contact for monitoring/reporting/alerting solutions developed.

?? Create custom monitoring solutions where direct monitoring is not possible.

?? Work on optimizing complex Splunk Dashboards and Alerts by tuning queries.

?? Experience in Parsing, Indexing, Searching concepts Hot, Warm, Cold, Frozen bucketing.

?? Good knowledge about Splunk architecture and various components (indexer, forwarder, search heads, deployment server), Heavy and Universal forwarder, License model.

?? Working Experience in large datasets to generate insights by using Splunk.

?? Provide assistance to App and Support teams in identifying the tuning opportunities using APM tools especially AppDynamics.

?? Collaborate with various teams to initiate new ideas for simplifying the application logging which will help in effective monitoring.

?? Educate internal customers on the tools and available dashboards, so that they can effectively use to reduce downtime and root cause analysis.

Key Skill and Experience:

?? Excellent experience implementing monitoring and performance engineering experience.

?? Excellent experience in scripting or software development experience.

?? Excellent experience with large-scale financial systems architectures.

?? Good experience in using Splunk, AppDyanamics, Thousand Eyes, AppPulse or equivalent monitoring tools.

?? Demonstrated ability to work successfully in a fast paced, cross-functional team environment.

Desirable Certifications

Splunk 7.x Power User Certification.

Splunk Admin and Architect certification is optional...... click apply for full job details

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