System Monitoring Engineer

Our global Enterprise and IT Solutions business is focused on delivering excellence in IT solutions to our customers. Primarily located in London, Luxembourg and Manila, we are a diverse team of highly trained team members who pride ourselves in delighting the customer.

The System Engineer Monitoring is responsible for managing the CHAMP monitoring and alerting systems, with both roles of support / BAU / rollout of standard monitoring solutions and implement ad-hoc or new ones. He/she will mainly work on the key solutions in use at CHAMP: SolarWinds (system monitoring), Nagios (system monitoring), Dynatrace (application monitoring) and Resolve (to achieve automation and alerting integration with ServiceNow).

He/she will be responsible for providing monthly availability reports for CHAMP products from the data available on the monitoring. He/she will participate in any project at CHAMP linked to new business requests or to new solutions to be monitored. He/she will apply the correct monitoring templates based on the solution as defined by the Technical Architects. He/she will have self-initiative to propose new and / or improve current solutions in place in the optic of a continuous improvement process, reviewing and checking the systems in place.

He/she will have to coordinate the monthly maintenance window interventions: make sure that the tasks are executed as defined, within the specified timeframe and that the systems are available before and after the intervention by checking that monitoring dashboard is green and no critical alert is pending.

Responsibilities

• Become part of the Technical Architecture & Monitoring Team to provide the service to the entire CHAMP users.
• Configure standard monitoring using SNMP, WMI or specific protocols like WinRM.
• Support our Monitoring shared infrastructure based on SolarWinds products. The monitoring infra comprises 30 polling servers to support 2000 monitored nodes (mainly servers, firewalls, network devices located in our Luxembourg based datacenters, in AWS or in Azure cloud).
• Execute daily/weekly/monthly Monitoring tasks to make the monitoring more accurate.
• Process user requests assigned to the Monitoring team into our ITSM tool
• Design monitoring processes using standard methods and checks (SNMP and WMI checks, HTTP, SMTP, POP3, TCP port checks)
• Design and support ad-hoc monitoring solution using scripting languages, mainly Linux shell scripts and PowerShell scripts.
• Design and support ad-hoc monitoring solution for databases (SQL Query)
• Execute regular SOC certification controls
• Characterize existing applications and create related monitoring checks
• Quality control and continuous review of system in place
• Management / support / troubleshooting of Application Performance Monitoring, based on the Dynatrace SaaS service. It is mainly used by our developers for Application performance investigations.
• Management / support / troubleshooting of our automation infrastructure based on solution provided by Resolve
• Review of logs to highlight mismatches / errors / problems
• Plan regular application upgrades of monitoring software and regular OS updates of monitoring servers
• Write documentation, procedures and create reports
• Analyze and investigate for false-positive alerts that are reported: make sure that thresholds for alerts are adjusted so that the teams are only alerted when issue is critical.
• Coordinate CHAMP monthly planned interventions and make sure that monitoring of the services behaves as expected.
• Provide automated monthly SLA reports to our Service Managers from our monitoring events.
• Execute regular disaster testing on our Monitoring infra components.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Teamwork and collaboration with other technical and non-technical teams
• Knowledge and experience in system monitoring tools and principles
• Knowledge and experience in application monitoring tools and principles
• Administration of Windows Server and Red Hat Linux
• Advanced networking skills (IP addressing, routing, switching)
• Scripting experience with common programming languages (Linux shell, Perl, PowerShell)
• Understanding of common protocols like SNMP, WMI, HTTP, SMTP, POP3, TCP handshake
• Understanding of SQL query language to create ad-hoc monitoring or reports based on queries
• Understanding of web technologies like Apache, tomcat and IIS
• Understanding common network protocols (TCP/IP, Routing OSPF, BGP)
• Knowledge of HTML Basics
• Knowledge of ITIL and ITSM tool like ServiceNow
• Service and customer oriented
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Autonomous, flexible with working hours

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Equivalent
• At least 3 years working experience as system, monitoring or network engineer
• Excellent English and written communications skills

Security: the successful candidate will have to comply with CHAMP Security Requirements (including but not limited to CHAMP's IT Security Policies, especially the ISMS Policy and the Acceptable Use Policy, mandatory courses, confidentiality and data protection, use of company assets, and incident reporting).

CHAMP Cargosystems is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. We are committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, ethnic background, religion or belief, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.

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