APM Engineer

Location: Remote
Duration: 6 months, contract-to-hire
Pay: $50+/hr

Job Description

Join a global Fortune 500 food service provider with a strong commitment to diversity, innovation, and employee satisfaction. As part of the Application Performance team, you will support Tier 0 and Tier 1 applications using monitoring tools like Dynatrace, Zabbix, CloudWatch, and Splunk. Collaborate closely with application and middleware teams to enhance performance monitoring, focusing on health checks, logs, and alerts.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with application teams to establish thresholds and alerts.
• Install and maintain monitoring tools (Zabbix, Dynatrace, Foglight).
• Oversee daily operations, including release management and log analysis.
• Configure trend analysis and tune system alerts.
• Develop Splunk dashboards and custom monitoring solutions.
• Support incident calls and troubleshoot performance issues.
• Monitor AWS resources and assist with Kubernetes using Dynatrace.
• Upgrade monitoring tools and apply necessary security patches.
• Utilize Azure DevOps for managing PBIs and share insights in team meetings.
• Complete service requests and communicate progress to stakeholders.
• Engage in cross-team collaborations and root cause analysis.
• Manage tasks effectively and automate manual processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years as a Performance Monitoring Engineer.
• Expertise in Zabbix, Dynatrace, Splunk, and Foglight.
• Experience with AWS CloudWatch and AWS tools.
• Proficient in Shell Scripting and PowerShell.
• Familiarity with backup, restore, and recovery models.
• Strong multitasking and context-switching abilities.

Category Code: JN008