Monitoring Engineer Job Description
Monitoring engineer
provides operational and maintenance recommendations based on: oil and coolant analysis, equipment analyst performance and vibration test results, enterprise analytics notifications (remote condition monitoring system), borescope inspections and vibration testing.
Monitoring Engineer Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Aggressive in learning new technologies and developing best practices for monitoring and management
Acquisition, configuration, testing, implementation and troubleshooting of secure network management systems to support all aspects of the day to day operations
Documentation, process, and procedures, system configuration, revision and patch management of the NMS software and hardware
Architect infrastructure, application monitoring and log analysis frameworks to provide deep operational visibility of our production systems
Devise new and innovative ways to analyze huge amounts of security data to nefarious activity
Application of strong analytical skills to solve large-scale problems
Research in existing data corpus to detect new patterns
Assist in supporting JVM and component level monitoring in non-prod environments, playing an important part in the testing activities cross-train other teams in how to best utilize the CA APM tools suite, enabling a self-service environment
Collaborating with IT Architecture to understand future system state
Working with application and system owners to clarify monitoring requirements and business needs
Monitoring Engineer Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Monitoring Engineer
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: ITIL, CCNA, AWS, CISSP, DOD, HP, RHCE, ITOM, ITSM, MCTS
Education for Monitoring Engineer
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the monitoring engineer job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Collage Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Education, Technical, Information Systems, Information Technology, Science, Electrical Engineering, Technology, Computer Engineering
Skills for Monitoring Engineer
Desired skills for monitoring engineer include:
Internet development technologies
Splunk
DNS
Monitoring industry standards and the use of analytics in an operational setting
Perl
Vibration Analysis Softwares
Vibration Data Acquisition systems
Vibration sensors and various Condition Monitoring techniques
Computing
PowerShell
Desired experience for monitoring engineer includes:
Must be client focused and collaborate with engineers, developers and infrastructure teams to provide a reliable and dynamic set of services through an enterprise monitoring solution
Be responsible for the design, support and maintenance of a large enterprise monitoring platform
Be required to do a mix of engineering, consultative collaboration, and hands-on customer/tool support
Participate in daily stand-ups on site
Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or Information Systems or equivalent applicable experience
Demonstrated ability using and administering APM tools such as AppDynamics, AppInternals, (SCOM and River bed)
Monitoring Engineer Examples
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Monitoring Engineer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of monitoring engineer. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for monitoring engineer
- Tracking vendor roadmaps and leading efforts to implement new features, enhancements, and upgrades
- Identifying methods of providing audience appropriate views of monitoring data
- Collaborating with teams throughout IT to ensure that the proper use of the monitoring system is understood
- Identifying and creating methods of solving complex monitoring issues
- Providing technical troubleshooting skills during triage activities
- Providing clear and complete documentation of monitoring activities for all audiences
- Providing continuous suggestions for improved alert configuration and operational processes in relation to monitoring
- Serves as an escalation point or resource to system administrators for monitoring issues
- Performs quick analysis of attacks and threat based on real time monitoring and follow the predefined process(es) to address the associated risks
- Works with the Security Incident Management engineers to respond and resolve security incidents effectively
Qualifications for monitoring engineer
- BS in CS or 2+ years equivalent industry experience is required
- Software development domain and principles, including design patterns, code structure, programming languages, continuous integration (Git/SVN), continuous deployment (Travis/Jenkins), and deployment orchestration (Chef, puppet, or equivalent)
- Experience with C, C++, Java, Ruby or Python
- Experience with Intrusion Detection software, both open-source and commercial preferred (SourceFire, Bro IDS, Suricata, Snort, etc)
- Experience with network protocols and deep packet inspection
- Experience with Web Technologies (Apache, AJAX, HTML, JavaScript, HTTP, SOAP, XML)
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Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking to fill the role of monitoring engineer. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for monitoring engineer
- Deliver the monitoring platform as a service (set-up, troubleshoot, maintain) to the various other infrastructure and application teams across the enterprise
- Establish clear, well-defined monitoring standards across all service delivery teams in the enterprise
- Establish guidelines around system alerting and alert routing to ensure efficient and timely response to infrastructure\system issues which impact production environments
- Implement automation for monitoring implementation and an audit process to ensure that systems are being monitored as prescribed
- Enforce best practices around data collection and storage of collected metrics to ensure that we have the appropriate data required for real-time problem detection, rapid problem resolution, and effective post-mortem analysis
- Create a “Single Pane of Glass” monitoring hub which correlates multiple streams of monitored data into a centralized location for more efficient and effective drill down of monitored data
- Maximize our knowledge as industry leading experts on monitoring systems so that we can understand and implement advanced monitoring scenarios, address monitoring gaps, and to ensure that our corporate resources are monitored as effectively as possible
- Create a culture and process of continuous refinement in the monitoring space by establishing an iterative cycle of feedback, implementation, and improvement between the monitoring teams and various service delivery teams
- 24x7 Management of the monitoring environment using tools including Wily, Aternity, Tivoli, Topaz
- Oversight of the enterprise relationships with teams responsible for support and management of GTI-supported services services provided to other LOBs
Qualifications for monitoring engineer
- Implementing and supporting enterprise monitoring tools for networks, server and storage infrastructures application monitoring and performance
- Web services IIS, File and Print management, including File cluster
- Two or more years in DB2 administration
- 1 to 4 years of work experience in IT/Telecom/Security or connex fields
- Intermediate understanding of the IT & Network infrastructure
- Intermediate troubleshooting knowledge
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Monitoring Engineer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is hiring for a monitoring engineer. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for monitoring engineer
- Provide knowledge transfer to team members and IT teams on Monitoring Systems
- Communicate (via email, telephone, and escalation software tools) with external customers and CPM's to ensure operational concerns are fully understood by all parties
- Provide technical recommendations to customers from known information and procedures
- Collaborate with M&D Lead Engineers to develop new solutions that meet customer needs
- Build loyalty and commitment
- To promote Patient SafetyNet sales in China
- Performs wireless site surveys, and WLAN and LAN performance evaluations based on company methodology
- Provides entire supplied system technical expertise and participates in technical training
- Excellent troubleshooting skills requiring the ability to solve multifaceted problems
- Assists with product sales and proposals as requested
Qualifications for monitoring engineer
- Working knowledge of writing/understanding SQL queries
- Knowledge of at least one IT / Network operational area
- Intermediate level of understanding of security tools
- Hands-on past exposure in a Security Operations Center (SOC) environment is an advantage
- COMPTIA Security+ or CCNA Security certifications are an advantage
- Ability to plan own work to meet assigned schedules and targets direct Junior Security Monitoring engineers
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Monitoring Engineer Job Description
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Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of monitoring engineer. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for monitoring engineer
- Solid understanding of HPE monitoring suite, Zabbix and Splunk
- Trains the MCH technical support staff to increase customer support abilities
- Functions as a primary resource to the Tech Support team for systems needs
- Contribute to overall project and implementation process improvement
- Maintain and support all information store databases
- Create and maintain information reports for all business units
- Implement automation of information reports and alerts
- Monitor database program performance to detect errors
- Responsible for the system data models for MSSQL
- Responsible for client data conversions
Qualifications for monitoring engineer
- BSM Topaz
- Frontline Aternity
- Technology proficiency on other monitoring products like vCenter Operations Management Suite(vCOps), and HPSIM will be advantageous
- Basic level of understanding of security tools
- In the case of Monitoring Engineer experience, then extensive hands-on experience with at least one large-scale monitoring and/or log-parsing system
- Design and Development of Architecture, Application Configurations , agents
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Monitoring Engineer Job Description
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Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of monitoring engineer. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for monitoring engineer
- Maintain in-house databases, including backup and restore
- Deliver service plans through operational plans
- Maintain and upgrade our current monitoring products
- Analyze and suggest new solutions to provide better redundancy and accuracy in our alerting
- Ensure an accurate history of metrics is retained and available
- Establish performance baselines for infrastructure and services
- Create meaningful dashboards based on performance metrics and alerts
- Audit monitors and alerts with owners to ensure accuracy and completeness
- Code “utility” and “tool” class solutions to aid in the management of software monitoring functions
- Contribute to requirements definition and selection process of software platforms and solutions
Qualifications for monitoring engineer
- Ability and willingness to work 8 hour shifts on Day, Evening, or Night Shift with non-standard weekends (typically either Friday & Saturday or Sunday & Monday off-days)
- You have at least 4 years of experience in the monitoring and tools field
- AppDynamics Expert, Understand how Web Services / applications are built
- Knowledge of Big Data tools including Hadoop ecosystem, blur
- Working knowledge of Operating Systems concept (Multithreading, scheduling, memory management)
- Experience with Java programming language is a plus