Dynatrace/Datalog/ELK APM Engineer - REMOTE

Job Description

Flexion Inc. a Madison, WI based IT Consulting and Services firm is looking for a Java Deployment Engineer to work on a long-term consulting project. The client for this position is based in Madison, WI.

Observability Engineer: APM (Dynatrace / Datadog) and Log aggregation and alerting (with ELK).

Job Responsibilities:

• Support application monitoring for .Net, Java, SaaS, AWS, and other application architectures based in the cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) using Dynatrace

• Understand log analytics monitoring within Datadog and ELK

• Monitor the responsiveness and availability of critical websites and web applications from the end-user perspective

• Monitor infrastructure component for CPU, memory, disk space, and I/O

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

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

Additional requirements for the position:

• Understanding of log ingestion and alerting concepts
• 3-4 years Elastic Stack (ELK) experience (including configuration, query creation, alerting configuration)
• Understanding of Filebeat and Cribl deployments and configuration
• Develop and implement Python3 and BASH scripts to configure Elasticsearch indices, manipulate data, and perform complex search queries
• Create advanced KQL queries for visualizations and reports
• Design dynamic Kibana visualizations for analytics
• Set up cross-cluster search and streaming data pipelines
• Develop YAML configuration files for Elastic search and containerized platforms
• Design and implement ELK stack solutions and support Big Data platforms
• Develop rules and algorithms for data processing and correlations

• 4 or more years of experience in Information Systems performing application and infrastructure analysis

• Strong Experience with Datadog, ELK, and other industry standard log analytics platforms

• Working knowledge of application monitoring best practices

• Strong experience with multiple hardware and operating systems such as Unix, Linux, Windows, and/or VMware, EC2, ECS, Docker/Fargate Containers, and serverless functionality

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