Sr. Monitoring Engineer
Reports to the Sr. IT Operations Manager
Our Team:
The Monitoring team is an integral part of the Technology Operations department. This team is responsible for architecture, design, deployment, and maintenance of the Enova enterprise monitoring solutions. The Monitoring team ensures that all business and system KPIs are captured by our various monitoring tools, and that all actionable alerts are funneled through the appropriate teams.
Sr. Monitoring Engineer Overview:
In this role, you will be responsible for the tools that monitor and manage Enova’s critical applications and infrastructure. You will own the tools and structure, alerting mechanisms and escalation, dashboards, and overall framework to support the management of the Enova systems and applications running across multiple data centers. You will be expected to create event correlation rules matched to service monitoring requirements. Collaborating with business, engineering, development and other key partners to ensure operational readiness of new solutions and ongoing optimization/improvement of existing solutions is required to be successful in this role. You will also Use Chef to scale out monitoring across our AWS and on premises infrastructure.
Qualifications:
- You have at least 4 years of experience in the monitoring and tools field. Additional experience in systems, network or application administration is preferred.
- You have deep technical knowledge and operational experience in implementing the following applications and services, or functionally equivalent tool sets: DataDog, Splunk, Graphite, New Relic, Gomez, Zenoss, NetQoS and Keynote
- You have strong hands-on experience in systems management and administration in various Linux distributions (Debian and CentOS preferred), Windows, networking and working directly with Ruby based applications
- You are experienced in designing and creating custom tools, scripts, and interfaces to build monitoring and alerting capabilities custom fit to the systems in use
- You have experience in multiple scripting languages such as Python (preferred), Perl, Ruby, and various Linux shells
- You have experience defining, creating, and supporting monitoring dashboards for various levels of users, and providing reporting and status information clearly and at actionable levels
- You have obtained your Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in a tech field such a Computer Science or IT