IT Monitoring Engineer

COUNTRY Financial is seeking an IT Monitoring Engineer to join the Technology Monitoring Services team in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment who engineers and maintains monitoring/alerting tools. The ideal candidate benefits from experience with Splunk, Dynatrace, Zenoss, HP SiteScope, HP BSM and modern coding languages along with knowledge about Service Management, CMDB, DevOps, Agile, ITIL and GitLab. Having a passion for keeping our systems up and running is an absolute must!

The person in this role ensures the planning, selection, build, and maintenance of high-quality technology solutions that meet defined and emerging business capability needs in a cost-effective way. Partners with IT Security Analysts and Enterprise Architects to establish, understand, and adhere to technical and IT security standards. Involved in all aspects of the technology lifecycle to ensure that non-functional and functional requirements are adhered to in design and build so solutions are stable, secure, resilient, and perform well. Ensures that systems are maintained and supported to run effectively in production.

This position offers a hybrid work schedule and can be based out of our corporate offices in Bloomington, IL, Alpharetta, GA, or Minneapolis, MN.

How does an IT Monitoring Engineer make an impact?

• Design, build, implement, and support COUNTRY's IT solutions.
• Ensure IT solutions meet requirements for security, availability, capacity, resiliency, and performance in a way that is efficient and supportable, reducing overall support costs.
• Understand industry leading solutions and trends for assigned technologies and applying those as appropriate for COUNTRY.
• Understand business needs and partnering with appropriate IT counterparts to recommend technology solutions.
• Establish and maintain an IT multi-year strategy with a focus on continuous improvement. Create and maintain solutions architecture artifacts and other strategy and system documentation.