AppDynamics Consultant

 AppDynamics Consultant

Experience-6Years+

The position is for Platform Engineer in Cloud Development Journey in IT Strategy, Architecture and Tools department

As a Platform Engineer in Cloud Development Journey, you will have an opportunity to implement and maintain smooth operation as well as physical design of a distributed AppDynamics fault, performance and trend analytics system.  An opportunity to work independently with users to collect requirements and engineering monitoring solutions through customer acceptance. You should have an agile mindset, creative problem-solving skills and your ability to self-organize, take initiative and owning responsibility. Moreover, work autonomously with the mandate to move fast and do things differently.

You will be responsible for working with development teams to establish best practices around release processes and building those into release pipelines from laptop to production.

The position requires good communication skills.

Detailed Responsibility & Skills:-

•      Install, Configuration, and Tuning of the following AppDynamics Servers: Controller, Event Service Cluster, End User Monitoring, ADA, ADRUM

•      Reviews system design and works to continuously improve stability and efficiencies

•      Provides system backup recovery methodology and makes recommendations regarding enhancements and/or improvements

•      Formulates policies, procedures, and standards relating to system management, and monitors system resource utilization

•      Responsible for reducing operational downtime for critical, scheduled, and unscheduled maintenance by accelerating deployments of approved changes/fixes/updates

       and solutions and automate manual maintenance, deployment, diagnostic health checks, validation, and reporting

•      Responsible for creating proactive and reactive monitoring methods, generating customer alerts within the Enterprise Event Management and Monitoring capability

•      Skilled at user requirement gathering and can work independently to craft efficient monitoring, alarming solutions, and dashboards

•      Understands the Agile process

•      Ability to operationally support the underlying database as necessary

•      Hands-on Java and/or .Net Development

•      IT Operations and Application Support

•      Application and systems performance management, measurement and analysis.

•      Deployment and configuration of complex enterprise software

•      Solid understanding of Operating Systems (Linux/Windows)

•      Experience with J2EE/LAMP/Microsoft stack

•      Cloud and containerization experience

•      Strong understanding of built-in O/S monitoring and performance tools.

•      Working with a wide variety of platforms and application stacks. Ability to understand new application frameworks in customer environments quickly

•      Works with minimal direction as a seasoned resource

•      Support customer initiatives in their transition towards modernization

•      Tracks own work and backlog, familiar with Agile methodology

•      Prioritize own work in accordance with user priorities and stakeholder expectations

•      Communicates efficiently and effectively both written and verbal

•      Reviews system design and works to continuously improve stability and efficiencies

  Mandatory:

•      Knowledge about APM tools (NewRelic / AppDynamics / DataDog / OpenTracing)

•      Dotnet/Java

•      Linux/Windows

•      SQL

•      Reverse proxy administration (e.g.: IIS)

•      API

•      Elastic knowledge

•      Fault and Performance Monitoring Tools Administration

Good to have: Grafana / Python / GoLang / Bash / PowerShell