Director, Enterprise Monitoring

*Hybrid, 3 days onsite, 2 days remote*

*We are unable to sponsor as this is a permanent Full time role*

A prestigious company is looking for a Director, Enterprise Monitoring. This director will lead a team focused on enterprise monitoring, observability, and strategy of cloud native applications running on Kubernetes within AWS. This role must have financial industry experience, and experience with tools such as Splunk, Elk, Appdynamics, AWS, Kubernetes, APIs, Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform.

Responsibilities:

• Translate middle and senior management strategic directives into workable technical directives
• Monitor project status and take remedial action on projects behind schedule and/or over budget
• Ensure systems designs are reflective of our regulatory and compliance goals and support them in an efficient manner
• Allocate resources to resolve complex support issues in non-production and production environments.
• Understand Cloud Native applications running on Kubernetes within AWS and how exposed APIs may be used to monitor them
• Assist production support and development staff in debugging environment defects using logging monitors and/or APM-related profiling data
• Create procedural and troubleshooting documentation related to enterprise monitoring systems and the applications they are monitoring
• Ensure consistent and robust tool installations using common automation tools, such as Jenkins, Ansible, and Terraform for the installation, configuration, and/or upgrade of monitoring systems
• Supervise all direct reports and provide overall direction to the team

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a related area
• 7-10 years of related experience
• Minimum 7 years experience working in a distributed multi-platform environment.
• Minimum 3 years experience working with cloud native applications
• Minimum 3 years experience managing technical projects
• Demonstrated experience and expertise in Enterprise cloud monitoring solutions, preferably in financial markets. Experience in Splunk, ELK, AppDynamics, ITRS, OTEL or similar is a requirement.
• Systems administration and change management practices
• Enterprise monitoring and reporting tools
• Experience Scripting and/or coding against APIs
• In-depth knowledge of common used management and monitoring tech
• ITLT Best Practices
• Experience with tech used to support microservices
• Network technologies
• AWS log collection such as CloudTrail, CloudWatch, VPC Flow Logs
• Monitoring and reporting using SNMP
• CI/CD tools such as Artifactory, Jenkins, and GIT
• Cloud native applications, including Terraform experience
• Technologies used to support microservices
• Encryption technologies (SSL/TLS, PKI Infrastructure management
• Security controls as applied to software technologies