Sr Engineer, IT Infrastructure Observability

Company: Emonics, LLC
Location: Newark
Posted on: November 25, 2022

Job Description:

We are currently seeking a Sr. Systems Observability Engineer for our Newark location. This position requires an experienced technical expert in observability in network, physical systems, virtual systems, backup and storage systems.

Our ideal candidate exhibits a can-do attitude and approaches his or her work with vigor and determination. Candidates will be expected to demonstrate excellence in their respective fields, to possess the ability to learn quickly and to strive for perfection within a fast-paced environment.

The Role:

• Highly skilled in operational efficiency, optimal utilization, and system resiliency for a real-time streaming analytics platform
  
• Utilizing knowledge and experience in monitoring systems and applications, conduct initial troubleshooting and root cause analysis
  
• Supporting the integration of new technologies with monitoring systems to include deployment and decommissioning of monitoring agents
  
• Implement service level metrics and service level objectives that act as service-level health indicators
  
• Producing metrics and capacity planning reports as needed to support the monitored environments
  
• Expert in collecting metrics for performance related monitoring
  
• Design processes that help improve observability and system resiliency
  
• Work with other system administrators, engineers, and vendors to resolve hardware and software issues
  
• Maintain monitoring documentation, diagrams and standard operating procedures as required
  
• Coordinate and participate in key process improvements as they relate to operations monitoring
  
• Experience defining, creating, and supporting monitoring dashboards
  
• Identify potential trends in performance gaps and recommend modifications to the standardized work documents by using process improvement principles
  
• Triage site availability incidents and proactively work towards reducing MTTR for customer-impacting incidents
  
• Coordinate with Project Management as a subject matter expert (SME) on various projects, for infrastructure and IT operations. Automate as required
  
• Capable of working and collaborating on multiple projects or tasks with high attention to detail
  
• Keep abreast of emerging technologies to identify, research, evaluate and present concepts and solutions to management for implementation considerations
  
• Advocate standards, best practices, policies, and procedures
  
  
  
  
  Qualifications:
  
  
  
• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field
  
• 6+ years of Site Reliability Engineer or production Engineer
  
• 5+ years of Windows, Linux server environment
  
• 2+ years of experience working with network
  
• Excellent Systems Observability & Monitoring experience
  
  
  
  
• Strong coding experience in Python, Perl, Bash
  
• Knowledge of orchestration engines and package management including Kubernetes and Helm
  
• Good understanding of modern application, version control and development flow
  
• Customer service oriented with strong interpersonal and leadership skills
  
• Experience with Influx DB Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, SolarWinds ELK and APM
  
• Knowledge of containers and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure and/or GCP)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Note - All profiles rejected because of profiles were not having much skillsets (Splunk and other Monitoring tools, ITIL process, Coding exp) as per the Observability role.
  
  
  
  
  
• Excellent Systems Observability & Monitoring experience
  
• Look for Splunk, Grafana, SolarWinds ELK and APM
  
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