REMOTE - Senior Application / Infrastructure Monitoring Specialist to architect, manage the Monitoring platform critical applications and infrastructure - 4016

S.i. systems public sector client embraces a DevOps culture, fully adheres to scaled agile framework for enterprise (SAFe) processes and is deeply invested in modern Microsoft technologies such as Azure.

They are seeking a Senior Application / Infrastructure Monitoring Specialist to to architect, manage the Monitoring platform critical applications and infrastructure.

JOB DUTIES:

• Evaluating, architecting, deploying, and managing our Monitoring & Observability platform
• Defining, configuring, maintaining, and maximizing the platform that makes critical applications and infrastructure visible and investigable
• Leading define methodically to build an observability-driven development practice
• Working closely with development teams to implement monitoring & observability instrumentation within their platforms.
• Driving adoption of best practices in monitoring, alerting, and performance
• Defining best practices around making our systems and services measurable and working with our various teams to get those best practices applied
• Collaborating with our Engineering & Platform teams to ensure our services, platforms and infrastructure are emitting the right metrics
• Collecting, aggregating, and visualizing the collected metrics to provide actionable insight
• Contributing to our evolving “data-driven” and “cloud first” culture through continuous learning

MUST HAVE SKILLS

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering, SRE, or DevOps
• Experience with one or more monitoring/logging/alerting tools at scale, such as:
  • Zabbix
  • Logstash
  • Kibana
  • Prometheus
• Prior experience with instrumenting mission-critical services on distributed level, using cloud providers like Azure, AWS or GCP
• Containerization experience
• Experience with one or more of:
  • Elastic search
  • Cloud Watch
  • Prometheus
  •  Data Dog
  • Splunk
• some Big Data technology experience such as:
  • Cassandra
  • Elastic search
  • Hadoop
• Solid configuration management skills (Puppet, Salt)
• Experience with scripting and system automation (Python, Perl etc.)
• Able to comply with WorkSafeBC’s Employee and Contractor Mandatory Vaccine Policy

NICE TO HAVE SKILLS

• Prior experience with AIOps is a plus