Monitoring Engineer.( Need to be on-site once a month )

Monitoring Engineer.( Need to be on-site once a month )

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Job Title:

Monitoring Engineer.
Duration:

Long Term Contract. (Need to be on-site once a month )
Location:

NYC

Monitoring Engineer good with Splunk and Dynatrace to set up Alerts dashboards and tune Splunk queries

Job Description:

• We are looking for a Monitoring Engineer Sr or Lead. This position is responsible for ensuring continuous production improvement within the IT department at Top Financial Client in alignment with the business objectives. The Monitoring Engineer shall increase production stability, bring automation, adherence to change, quality, and efficiency in all functional units, especially in the performance and delivery of business projects. Recognized technical authority for an area within the business. Requires basic commercial awareness.

There are typically multiple people within the business that provide the same level of subject matter expertise. Developed communication and diplomacy skills are required in order to guide, influence, and convince others, in particular colleagues in other areas and occasional external customers. Significant impact on the area through complex deliverables. Provides advice and counsel related to the technology or operations of the business. Work impacts an entire area, which eventually affects the overall performance and effectiveness of the sub-function/job family.
Summary Essential Job Functions

• The role will be a monitoring and observability expert.
• Drive the best-in-class monitoring using a range of tools across
• Drive POCs and incubate new features and capabilities.
• Be forward looking and ensure long term strategic success.
• Work closely with the monitoring operations teams, production support, performance test teams, operations, application owners and application owners to deliver best-in-class monitoring.
• Explain complicated performance bottlenecks to stakeholders.
• Understand complicated application architecture, including Java app servers, Web Servers, Cloud AWS, Kubernetes.
• Build advanced dashboards and queries.
• Be a subject matter expert for the Bank, including conducting brown bags and office hours.
• Recommend product customization for system integration
• Identify problem causality, business impact and root causes
• Advise or mentor junior team members
• Impact the engineering function by influencing decisions through advice, counsel or facilitating services
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Credit Card Unit, its clients, and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules, and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing, and reporting control issues with transparency.

Position Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
• Master’s degree preferred
• 3-7 years of relevant experience in an Engineering & IT role

• 3+ years working Splunk/Elk (or alternative log analytics tool)

• 3+ Years of Dynatrace
• 2+ years working with APM (ideally AppDynamics).
• 2+ years of Application Development Experience (Java) at an enterprise level is a strong plus
• 2+ years of Experience with a range of architecture tech stacks including Java app servers, Web Servers, Cloud -AWS, Kubernetes.
• Experience with synthetic monitoring tools (ideally Micro focus BSM / APM)
• Ability to converse with application owners, architects, performance testers to pinpoint application performance bottlenecks via the monitoring & observability tools.
• Big Data / AIOPS experience is a strong plus. Including experience with the Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit.
• Knowledge of R or Python and Machine Learning algorithms is a plus
• Splunk administration experience is a plus.
• Experience working in Financial Services or a large complex and/or global environment.
• Experience working with diverse stakeholders, including operations, application developers and performance testing.
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication
• Comprehensive knowledge of design metrics, analytics tools, benchmarking activities, and related reporting to identify best practices.
• Demonstrated analytic/diagnostic skills
• Ability to work in a matrix environment and partner with virtual teams
• Ability to work independently, multi-task, and take ownership of various parts of a project or initiative.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage to tight deadlines or unexpected changes in expectations or requirements.
• Proven track record of operational process changes and improvement.