ESM Engineer
- Full-time
Company Description
Exponential Interactive is the global provider of advertising intelligence and digital media solutions to brand advertisers.
Our e-X Advertising Intelligence Platform combines proprietary audience data and technology to deliver advertising intelligence that enables smarter, better-informed marketing decisions.
Our audience engagement divisions - AdoTube, Appsnack, Firefly Video and Tribal Fusion - apply advertising intelligence to deliver high-impact, high-engagement campaigns across display, video and mobile media.
Exponential offers solutions in 22 countries and reaches more than 450m unique users worldwide every month.
For more information about Exponential, visit: http://www.exponential.com/
Job Description
As the ESM Engineer, you will implement, configure, and support the overall monitoring and performance management system over the enterprise wide applications.
Responsibilities:
- Define and standardize proactive monitoring approach and success criteria including establishing best practices, operation standards and governance structure.
- Create and support custom scripts in Perl/bash/python/Ruby/GoLang.
- Develop and own the monitoring architecture/platform, alerting mechanisms and escalation process to ensure business continuity and per business demands, application and infrastructure requirements
- Analyzes trends in system utilization to predict future growth for capacity planning purposes
- Create and maintain operational dashboards for both real-time and trended views for multiple levels of users (Operations, Engineering, Development, Business and Executive)
- Collaborate with business partners, engineers, developers, infrastructure team, operations to ensure operational readiness of existing and potential solutions
- Train other operations and IT associates on the monitoring tools usability
- Run and review performance monitoring of complex systems and applications on multiple platforms
Qualifications
- BE/MCA/MSC in Computer Science or equivalent relevant experience
- 5+ years experience in IT
- 2+ years experience with mission critical environments
- 2+ years of experience in installing, configuring, troubleshooting and supporting software applications deployed on Solaris & Linux OS and at least 2 years’ experience in performing Enterprise Systems Monitoring (ESM) and implementing popular monitoring enterprise suites such as Nagios and SolarWind.
- 2+ years of experience in Graphing Tools such as Ganglia, Graphite and Cacti.
- 2+ years of experience in Configuration management tool such as Puppet, chef and saltstack.
- Must have installed, admin, managed and been fully responsible for a cloud infrastructure and application monitoring system or systems including Nagios or SolarWind or Icinga
- Strong technical experience in an application hosting IT environment (including web servers, database, virtualization, storage, load balancers, firewalls)
- Ability to write scripts in Bash, Perl, Ruby, Go Programing Language and Python
- Highly motivated individual with excellent analytical skills dedicated to completing tasks on schedule and interpersonal skills
- Ability to multi-task, prioritize and work independently with minimal supervision in a 24x7 environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills