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Job Description - Key Responsibilities: - Monitoring and Alerting: - Set up, configure, and maintain monitoring systems (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios, Datadog) for infrastructure, applications, and services. - Implement real-time monitoring and alerting systems to proactively identify and respond to issues related to performance, availability, and security. - Define and implement alerting thresholds for system and application performance to minimize downtime and service disruptions. - Continuously monitor the health and availability of key services and infrastructure components to ensure optimal performance. - Incident and Issue Management: - Work closely with engineering teams to investigate and resolve production incidents, performance bottlenecks, and security vulnerabilities. - Provide timely and accurate incident response for issues that arise, including conducting root cause analysis (RCA) and providing post-mortem reports. - Lead the effort to ensure the uptime and reliability of applications, managing incidents and ensuring they are resolved within established SLAs. - Automation and Optimization: - Automate monitoring, alerting, and reporting tasks to reduce manual intervention and improve operational efficiency. - Work closely with DevOps and Engineering teams to automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and deployment pipelines using tools like Ansible, Terraform, Chef, or Puppet. - Implement performance tuning and optimization strategies for infrastructure and applications in production environments. - Cloud Infrastructure Management: - Manage and monitor cloud-based infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform), including compute, storage, and network services. - Integrate cloud monitoring tools to track resource utilization, cost management, and security compliance. - Manage cloud-based logging and metrics collection to gain insights into cloud system performance and optimize cloud resources. - Collaboration with Development and Operations Teams: - Work closely with development and operations teams to integrate monitoring and alerting systems with the overall CI/CD pipeline. - Assist developers in troubleshooting application performance issues and identifying bottlenecks or failures in the deployment pipeline. - Ensure seamless collaboration between DevOps, development, and IT operations teams for continuous improvement and effective issue resolution. - Reporting and Documentation: - Produce detailed operational reports and dashboards to provide visibility into system health, performance trends, and incident resolution metrics. - Develop and maintain runbooks and documentation for monitoring processes, incident management, and response strategies. - Provide actionable insights into the system and application performance to help leadership make informed decisions. - Security and Compliance: - Monitor system compliance with security policies, ensuring data protection and secure access controls across cloud environments and applications. - Collaborate with security teams to detect and mitigate security threats using integrated security monitoring tools. - Ensure audit logs are maintained, accessible, and compliant with relevant standards and regulations. - Continuous Improvement: - Stay up-to-date with emerging DevOps practices and monitoring technologies, continuously enhancing the capabilities of the monitoring environment. - Identify areas for continuous improvement in monitoring systems, processes, and tools to enhance operational efficiency and reduce downtime. - Propose and implement new tools and technologies to further improve the effectiveness and scalability of the monitoring infrastructure. - Required Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field. - 3-5 years of hands-on experience in DevOps, Monitoring, and Infrastructure Management. - Strong expertise in monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Nagios, Zabbix, or similar. - Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform. - Proficiency in automation tools like Ansible, Chef, Terraform, Puppet, or SaltStack. - Familiarity with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI, or Travis CI. - Experience with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes. - Strong experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) practices and tools. - Familiarity with logging tools such as ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Splunk, or Fluentd. - Strong knowledge of Linux and Windows systems administration. - Solid understanding of networking concepts, firewalls, and load balancing