Senior Systems Engineer- Enterprise Monitoring

Location: 100% remote
Years' Experience: 7+ years of experience
Education: Bachelor's degree in an IT related field
Work Authorization: Must show that applicant is legally permitted to work in the United States
Clearance: Applicants must be able to meet the requirements to obtain and maintain a Secret level security clearance. NOTE: United States Citizenship is required to be eligible to obtain a Secret security clearance.
Key Skills:

• Experience with tools like AppDynamics and Dynatrace or other performance monitoring tools.
• Experience managing a team of other members of an Enterprise Monitoring team.
• Experience integrating Enterprise Monitoring tools with an Enterprise Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) implementation.
• Experience interacting with operations support (both NOC & SOC)
• Experience supporting agent and agentless based monitor plug-ins across multiple OS and Network systems.
• Desired experience with scripting languages such as Bash, Python, and/or Perl.

Responsibilities

• Reporting to the Operations Lead, you will implement and maintain the overall framework to support systems, network, application and business logic real-time monitoring, longer-term trending and event management and alerting.
• You will create and maintain operational dashboards for both real-time and trended views for multiple levels of users (External Stakeholders, Operations, and Engineering).
• You will create event correlation rules matched to enterprise service monitoring requirements, e.g. system status and health.
• You will create event correlation rules matched to Cyber Security monitoring requirements.
• You will provide day-to-day support, maintenance and troubleshooting of Enterprise Monitoring tools and ensure the availability, performance, and security of the overall system.
• You will collaborate with business, engineering, operations and other key partners to ensure operational readiness of new solutions and ongoing optimization/improvement of existing solutions.
• You will integrate disparate monitoring/management platforms into a central monitoring view for central monitoring.
• You will develop new tools and methodologies for the use by System Administration and Helpdesk teams to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
• You will constantly expand and improve the integration of applications, tools and dashboards.
• You will collaborate in creating business monitoring requirements to translate into technical specifications for monitoring capabilities.
• You will document all systems, tools, and applications created in the support of Enterprise Monitoring efforts.

Qualifications

• Requires at least 7 years of experience in the monitoring and tools field with additional experience in systems, network or application administration preferred.
• Bachelor degree is required
• Must be able to obtain a Secret security clearance.
• Experience with tools like AppDynamics and Dynatrace or other performance monitoring tools.
• Experience with Agile based delivery of system components
• Experience with Agile project tools such as Confluence and JIRA.
• Working knowledge of security architectures, application servers and various scripting languages.
• Working knowledge of networking: TCP/IP, and familiarity with firewalls, hubs, routers, switches, DNS, gateways, load balancing and basic network analysis/troubleshooting and how to monitor their health and efficiency.
• Familiarity with key servers/encryption, PKI/certificates, JAVA, APIs and browsers.
• Experience with AWS. AWS certification(s) are a plus.
• Experience in designing and creating custom tools, scripts, and interfaces to build monitoring and alerting capabilities custom fit to the systems in use.
• Experience in multiple scripting languages is preferred like Bash, Python, Perl, etc.
• Experience working with DevOps and/or DevSecOps teams to embed monitoring plugins/agents with the intent that newly deployed systems require minimal effort to register with Enterprise Monitoring systems.
• Previous experience defining, creating, and supporting monitoring dashboards for various levels of users and providing reporting and status information clearly and at actionable levels.
• Experience supporting systems that follow an SDLC model. This includes assisting environment/platform leads with the design/implementation of alerts/notifications.
• Experience interacting and presenting inputs towards solutions with senior leadership within IBR and at times, represent IBR professionally when interacting with customers or customers representative staff.
• Excellent analytical skills, organizational, time management and problem-solving skills are essential.
• Good understanding of and experience in Agile methodologies within a fast-paced software development environment.
• Excellent verbal and written skills.

About Sparibis
Sparibis LLC is a professional solution firm that Clients rely on to access the best talent to drive their business success.
Sparibis is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity at all levels. All individuals, regardless of personal characteristics, are encouraged to apply.