Monitoring Architect

Main activities

• Design and review monitoring architecture
• Responsible for the evolution of the products, and the implementation of future versions
• Participate in the definition of procedures to be used by technical teams
• Impact assessment
• Provides technical lead for the SCOM and Nagios Monitoring technologies
• Capacity management for the monitoring tools
• Participate in the integration with collaborative tools and components
• Promote and follow prescribed project management guidelines for projects
• Maintain documentation for all operational / support processes for the systems supported; automate repetitive processes where appropriate
• Stay current with new technologies and techniques as appropriate

Qualifications

• BS/BA in Computer Science or related field or the equivalent work experience
• Minimum 6 to 10 years of related work experience including solid exposure to enterprise architecture
• Proven experience in SCOM and/or Nagios (any other monitoring tool is considered as an asset);
• Ability to understand and design complex architecture for monitoring;
• Understanding of the monitored technologies like windows, Unix, Linux, storage bays, ...
• Knowledge of OS (Windows/Unix) based infrastructure services, processing, monitoring, scripting languages (powershell, shell, python etc) .… is considered as an asset;
• Proven experience programming languages is considered as an asset;
• Experience in application/network performance and availability monitoring
• Knowledge of ITIL functions and processes;
• Experience with administration methods, CMD, Console, WLST is considered as an asset;
• Ability to work and communicate in a multi-cultural environment;
• Service-oriented mind-set;
• Ability to communicate in writing and verbally in a clear and concise manner;
• Initiative, accuracy and attention to detail;
• Fluent in English (written and spoken) is essential;
• Any other European language is a plus