Advanced Planning Consultant

First Command Financial Services, Inc.; Madison (WI); On-site; USD 83,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

Flexion Inc., a Madison, WI based IT Consulting and Services firm, is seeking an Automation/Monitoring Engineer for a long-term consulting project. This role focuses on enterprise monitoring across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments with Java, JavaScript, and Python.

You will work with the Observability Team to implement monitoring strategies using AWS, GCP, Datadog, Dynatrace, and ServiceNow, and develop automation, remediation workflows, and tooling documentation for automated processes.

Qualifications

• At least three years of web application development experience.
• At least three years of Service coding / message framework experience (SOAP / REST).
• Experience with Datadog API, Dynatrace API, ServiceNow API, ELK, and other industry standard monitoring platforms.
• Strong experience in Python, Java, JavaScript and other programming languages.
• Strong experience with cloud (AWS, GCP) deployment scripting (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.).
• Working knowledge of application monitoring best practices.
• Experience with multiple operating systems such as Unix, Linux, Windows, and/or VMware, EC2, ECS, Containers, and Lambda functionality.
• Experience with application performance management technologies: server and application (real and synthetic) monitoring components.
• Strong experience integrating Observability tools with ServiceNow, GitLab, Ansible, and other platforms.
• Synthetic monitoring tools including browser-based testing and load generators.
• Infrastructure monitoring tools: client, server, network, logs.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain automation in Java, JavaScript, and Python (including API calls to applications and load balancers).
• Develop and maintain automation within Confluence.
• Develop automated remediation workflows (ServiceNow, API, etc.).
• Support application monitoring for .Net, Java, SaaS, AWS, and other architectures via API calls.
• Understand PaaS, IaaS, and SaaS and best practices for monitoring each.
• Understand log analytics monitoring with ELK and/or Splunk for migration to Datadog.
• Provide deep visibility into on-prem, cloud and hybrid applications performance.
• Support ongoing Datadog configurations and platform implementation via API.
• Implement application monitoring, synthetic and real user monitoring solutions following best practices across the enterprise.
• Collaborate with Business and Technology to design and implement performance benchmarks for each application.

Skills

Java

JavaScript

Python

Datadog API

Dynatrace API

ServiceNow API

ELK

Splunk

AWS

GCP

Terraform

CloudFormation

Observability

Confluence

APIs

VMware

Linux

Windows

Tools

Confluence

Job description

Flexion Inc. a Madison, WI based IT Consulting and Services firm is looking for a Automation/Monitoring Engineer to work on a long-term consulting project. The client for this position is based in Madison, WI but work for this position can be done remotely in the United States. .

This person will be responsible for delivering and supporting enterprise level monitoring for subnets, systems, applications, service, and business activities via the heavy use of development skills in Java, JavaScript, and Python. As part of the Observability Team, this position will be involved in crafting and implemented the monitoring strategy and tools usage documentation for automated processes within the team. This Individual will work with senior members to gather monitoring requirements from stakeholders and deliver solutions utilizing the enterprise monitoring toolset (AWS, GCP, Datadog, Dynatrace, and others.

Job Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain automation create in Java, Java Script, and Python (this includes API calls to applications and load balancers)


• Develop and maintain automation within Confluence


• Develop automated remediation workflows (ServiceNow, API, etc.)


• Support application monitoring for .Net, Java, SaaS, AWS, and other application architectures via the use of API calls


• Understand the differences between PaaS, IaaS, and SaaS and best practices for the monitoring of each


• Understand log analytics monitoring with ELK and/or Splunk for migration to Datadog


• Provide deep visibility into on-prem, cloud and hybrid applications performance


• Support the efforts for ongoing Datadog configurations and platform implementation via the API


• Implement application monitoring, synthetic and real user monitoring solutions following best practices across the enterprise


• Collaborate with Business and Technology to design and implement performance benchmarks for each application, and report results periodically

Required skills

• At least three years of web application development experience


• At least three years of Service coding / message framework experience (SOAP / REST)


• Experience with Datadog API, Dynatrace API, ServiceNow API, ELK, and other industry standard monitoring platforms


• Strong Experience in Python, Java, JavaScript and other programing language


• Strong Experience with cloud (AWS, GCP) deployment scripting (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)


• Working knowledge of application monitoring best practices


• Experience with multiple hardware and operating systems such as Unix, Linux, Windows, and/or VMware, EC2, ECS, Containers, and Lambda functionality


• Experience with application performance management technologies: server and application (realand synthetic) monitoring components


• Strong Experience in integrating Observability tools with ServiceNow, GitLab, Ansible, and other industry standard platforms


• Synthetic monitoring tools including browser-based testing and load generators


• Infrastructure monitoring tools: client, server, network, logs

The salary range for this position is $60-70/hr.

Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer