As a Senior Observability Engineer, you will manage and optimize AHEAD’s Managed Services platforms, document processes, provide support, and automate tasks to enhance efficiencies.
AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.
At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived.
We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD.
As an Observability Engineer, you will utilize your extensive Information Technology knowledge and experience to support/streamline AHEAD’s Managed Services platforms and services. You will work with a collaborative team ensuring development efforts are well documented and delivered with quality along with maintaining the tooling architecture at the platform level. You will work with customer service owners, process owners and various service delivery groups and participate in meetings in a professional and courteous manner. The Observability Engineer is highly skilled on various platforms with strong experience supporting and maintaining integrations with external third-party tools.
The Observability Engineer is a key role in the Managed Services team. The ideal candidate will have the knowledge and experience to work with a variety of technologies in diverse environments. This position will be focused on automating operational tasks, as well as maintaining and expanding our existing operational tool set, with a goal of driving efficiencies across the Managed Services team.
Responsibilities
- Configure and tune monitoring tools to allow Managed Services to proactively manage customer environments
- Document processes and standard operating procedures across the managed services team
- Support P1 Platform outages, as needed
- Provide third-level support and troubleshooting assistance
- Automate processes and standard operating procedures across the managed services team. These processes could involve working with a variety of technology stacks.
- Engage effectively with customers, vendors, and other team members
- Obtain and/or maintain technical skills required to meet the obligations of our customers
- Document operational processes / procedures to optimize support and management of systems
- Be proactive in spotting and fixing potential problems
- Provide emergency after-hours support as part of a scheduled on-call rotation
- Provide periodic after-hours support for scheduled maintenance activities
Expectations
- Recognized subject matter expert in professional discipline
- Contribute to development of innovative and high impact solutions for complex challenges
- Provide measurable input into new products, processes, standards, and / or plans
- Demonstrate deep expertise across multiple automation/tooling technologies
- Able to support the deployment of moderately complex solutions
- Communicate with internal customers and relevant stakeholders
- Provide measurable input into new products, processes, standards, and / or plans
Required Skills & Expertise
- BS/BA Degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience
- Recognized subject matter expert in professional discipline
- 3+ years administrating an enterprise environment with 24x7x365 uptime requirements
- Demonstrated experience with monitoring and event management technologies
- Scripting and automation skills with PowerShell Perl or Python
- Experience interacting with SOAP and Rest APIs
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Experience with LogicMonitor Platform
- Experience with Elastic Observability Platform
Desired Skills & Experience
- Experience with ServiceNow
- Industry technical certifications such as MCSA, MCSE, ITIL, CCNA, NPP etc.
- Experience working in a Managed Services organization
- Experience working for a SaaS provider or MSP
- Multiple certifications in LogicMonitor: LMCA, LMCP, LMCI, & LMCD
- Elastic certified Engineer, Observability Engineer, or Analyst
Work Schedule
- M-F Standard Business Hours
- Periodic after-hours scheduled maintenance activities
- Rotating 24x7 Weekly On-Call Schedule for P1 Incident support
Why AHEAD:
Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between.
We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning.
USA Employment Benefits include:
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- 401(k)
- Paid company holidays
- Paid time off
- Paid parental and caregiver leave
- Plus more! See benefits https://www.aheadbenefits.com/ for additional details.
The compensation range indicated in this posting reflects the On-Target Earnings (“OTE”) for this role, which includes a base salary and any applicable target bonus amount. This OTE range may vary based on the candidate’s relevant experience, qualifications, and geographic location.
Top Skills
Elastic Observability
Logicmonitor
Perl
Powershell
Python
Rest Apis
Soap
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