Monitoring Platform Integrator

Job Description

The Key responsibilities include:

· Help design, build, deploy and configure the new monitoring infrastructure that will enable us to work faster and smarter.

· Work with tech-leads of system migrations to ensure they correctly monitor their new platform and help in the creation of alerting rules and escalation paths

· Ensure that the monitoring system itself if ‘monitored’ and there are redundant escalation paths to detect if parts have failed.

· Develop and maintain any code-base required to solve solutions and customer specific config

· Ensure the platform is configured as automatically as possible using technologies like service discovery, ansible, git to reduce manual configuration where possible

· Help tech-leads and system owners build Grafana and other dashboarding tools

· Work with our NOC teams and system owners to gather requirements for monitoring and alerting and ensure these critical functions are maintained during system transitions.

· Help transition custom monitoring scripts from Nagios to either Prometheus or icinga2 platforms.

· Integrate existing monitoring systems into the new design and help transition away systems as require



Qualification:

Basic degree or diploma in IT. Certifications from Microsoft and on Enterprise Linux, Cloud Foundations, AWS Cloud Practitioner or similar, Dev Ops centered training and quals

Experience

>5 years of experience in a systems admin role implementing, developing and maintaining enterprise level platforms preferably in the media industry

In-depth knowledge in the design and implementation of the following areas is crucial

· Management of Docker and/or Kubernetes Platforms

· Docker container build processes

· Redhat/Oracle Linux/CentOS System Administration

· AWS Cloud toolsets

· Monitoring technologies: Prometheus, influx dB, icinga2, Nagios, SNMP, Grafana

· Logging technologies: Kibana, Elasticsearch, Cloud Watch

· Orchestration management with a focus on one of the following: Ansible, Cloud Formation, Terraform, Puppet, Chef

· Python development

· JSON and API integration

· NetBox

Knowledge in the following may be advantageous:

· GO

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