Senior Monitoring Engineer

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Spring Technology's client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh, are currently looking to recruit a Senior Monitoring Engineer for an initial 6 month contract on a rate of c.£425-475/day (outside of IR35).

Responsibilities:

* Owner of all things related to platform monitoring - provide deep technical expertise across infrastructure and application spaces

* Determine actions plan around gaps and drive resolution

* Establish standards and working practices so they are both repeatable and optimal

* Define platform roadmap for monitoring & observability

* Stand up dashboards and regular reporting mechanisms

* Provide knowledge and domain expertise to wider IT areas

* Managing platform health, availability, integrity and currency to an acceptable level

* Monitor, manage and where necessary improve performance of monitoring system

* Work with multi-skilled DevOps teams where skills allow and the need arises

* Troubleshoot and resolve any issues relating to the monitoring systems

* Perform planned platform upgrades/patching when the need arises

* Review designs to meet system capacity requirements

* Managing workloads using Kanban techniques and/or other team defined methodologies

* Create and maintain system and network documentation as appropriate (e.g. MS Visio diagrams, system admin docs.

* Attend both team and wider departmental meetings, stand ups, show and tell meetings and town hall meetings

Requirements:

* SME level of knowledge and experience across entire monitoring space

* Past experience delivering transformative improvements across legacy environments, in conjunction with modern container based and cloud hosted environments

* Proven experience defining architectural patterns for monitoring & observability and driving adoption and change

* Experience of working with modern monitoring stacks

* Experience of fine tuning systems to ensure relevant metric capture across environments

* Experience developing centralise filtering and priority based alerting

* Experience of monitoring common Enterprise infrastructure components including DC, Network, OS, Virtual, Application, Middleware, Database spaces

* Expertise with data centre management monitoring

* Expert knowledge of Linux, Solaris, and windows operating systems monitoring

* Good knowledge of Application observability within JAVA / Python stacks

* Expertise knowledge of monitoring approaches across virtualised environments across multi data centre environments

* Knowledge of security monitoring solutions and integrations

* Strong ability to influence and get buy in across different technical domains / teams

* Strong ownership, ability to work undirected to discover gaps and propose and action improvements in an iterative manner

* Creativity - taking new approaches to tackle problems; embracing innovation and sharing knowledge with, a range of sources and stakeholders

* Knowledge and experience of agile working, including such disciplines as Kanban, feedback, retrospectives.

Desirable Skills:

* Ability to code / script to small/ medium complexity across a number of languages using libraries and web api based methods

* Powershell / PowerCli expertise

* Python or other UNIX based language (BASH, Perl, etc) expertise

* Experience of working in a DevOps environment across multiple agile teams

* Strong proponent of monitoring as code, ability to drive this principle in all activities

* Expertise in CI/CD pipelines and integration with code repositories

* Strong knowledge of APM and observability paradigms

* Strong proponent of automation in design, implementation, and operational management

* Knowledge of Postgres, MongoDB monitoring approaches

* Knowledge of AWS based services

If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch with Claire Lorden OR Chris Wallis on 0131 524 9027 or send your CV through to [email protected] OR [email protected]

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