* Position is bonus eligible*

Prestigious Financial Institution is currently seeking an Enterprise Monitoring Technical Lead Engineer with strong Splunk experience. Candidate will lead the investigating, planning, and implementing of the enterprise monitoring system, as well as identify areas for improvement, recommend allocation of resources, and work with solution architects to craft an appropriate remediation or enhancement for these systems.

Responsibilities:

Translate middle and senior management strategic directives into workable technical directives

Monitor project status and take remedial action on projects behind schedule and/or over budget

Provide subject matter expertise for ongoing support of third-party tools like Splunk

Provide expert-level technical mentoring to more junior members of the team

Resolve complex support issues in non-production and production environments.

Have an understanding of Cloud Native applications running on Kubernetes within AWS and how exposed APIs may be used to monitor them

Assist production support and development staff in debugging environment defects using logging monitors and/or APM-related profiling data

Create procedural and troubleshooting documentation related to enterprise monitoring systems and the applications they are monitoring

Write complex automation scripts using common automation tools, such as Jenkins, Ansible, and Terraform for the installation, configuration, and/or upgrade of monitoring systems.

Qualifications:

Expert understanding of: Systems administration and change management practices

Enterprise monitoring and reporting tools

Experience Scripting and/or coding against APIs

In-depth knowledge of common used management and monitoring tech

Internet/Web based technologies

ITIL Best Practices

Experience with tech used to support microservices

Network technologies

AWS log collection such as CloudTrail, CloudWatch, VPC Flow Logs

Monitoring and reporting using SNMP

CI/CD tools such as Artifactory, Jenkins, and GIT

Cloud native applications, including Terraform experience

Technologies used to support microservices

Encryption technologies (SSL/TLS, PKI Infrastructure management)

Security controls as applied to software technologies

Bachelor's degree in a related area

10+ years of related experience

10 years experience working in a distributed multi-platform environment.

3 years experience working with cloud native applications

3 years experience managing technical projects

Cloud certification in AWS is a plus