Senior Site Reliability Engineer

***Only qualified Senior Site Reliability Engineer candidates located near the O'Fallon, MO area to be considered due to the position requiring an onsite presence***

Our client is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) who will work closely with technology support teams and application teams to build monitoring and automation solutions to improve the application and infrastructure availability.

Role

•  Represent Enterprise Monitoring team in project meetings and provide advice, status, training and technical support
•  Work with our customers to understand the monitoring and automation requirements and implement solution using available tool sets and scripting languages
•  Administer, support and maintain enterprise Monitoring tools in a multi-tier environment
•  Build Automation solutions using available tool sets and scripting languages.
•  Maintain design and support documents for all built solutions and processes
•  Troubleshoots networking, Unix/Linux systems, and applications to identify and correct malfunctions and other operational problems utilizing associated Linux and UNIX command line and management tools.
•  On-call administration and tools support.
•  As new technologies emerge and impact our environment, learn these technologies very quickly and resolve any problems involved in integrating new technologies.
•  Maintains a broad knowledge of state-of-the-art technology, equipment, and/or systems.
•  Self-Driven and flexible willing to learn in adjacent areas with the initiative to learn more.
•  Thorough, adhering to critical processes even under stress
•  Support business disaster recovery procedures for assigned areas of responsibility.
•  Accurately document duties and procedures to aid the department in cross-training and absentee coverage
•  Work with technical engineering teams to manage and improve processes
•  Ability to solve problems quickly and completely.
•  Ability to identify tasks that should be automated and then develop and implement automation
  
  

All About You

•  Advanced user level expertise in UNIX and/or Red Hat Linux
•  Networking experience from basics to advanced, along with security knowledge.
•  Proficient with scripting or programming languages such as SQL, Perl and shell scripting
•  Experience with enterprise systems management/monitoring tools such as IBM Tivoli products, Microsoft System Center Operations Manager, Zabbix, Nagios, etc. is highly desirable.
•  Experience developing web applications on a Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP stack is a strong plus.
•  Strong analytical, troubleshooting and problem solving skills
•  Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously under pressure without direct supervision
•  Ability to manage multiple activities and work with a strong sense of urgency
•  Ability and motivation to learn new technologies quickly and with minimal support and guidance.
•  Evening, weekend and shift on-call required to meet deadlines and correct system failures or for patch upgrades.
•  Strong people skills and the ability to understand business needs and translate them into technical solutions
•  Excellent verbal and written skills, organization, project prioritization, and time management skills.
  
  

Required technical skills

•  Knowledge of any 2 Monitoring tools like Splunk, Dynatrace
•  Experience with a variety of enterprise storage and networking systems, and especially with Cisco equipment
•  Familiarity with IBM Tivoli Network Manager, including configuration of device discovery, SNMP traps and probes
  
  

Desired/nice to have technical skills

•  Ability to drive from customer monitoring requirements to a technical solution with minimal supervision.
•  Experienced in NcKL (Netcool Knowledge Library).
•  Experience writing probe rules for IBM Netcool Omnibus 
• Talteam Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.**