Monitoring Engineer

Monitoring Engineer
Are you passionate about service excellence? Would you love to work for a global organization that is doing more good for people and planet?
IFF is a global leader in food, beverage, health, biosciences and sensorial experiences. We are now seeking a highly motivated and results driven individual to join our Global Linux Engineering team as Monitoring Engineer.
Your Focus
As Monitoring Engineer, based out of Chennai , India, you will be responsible you will be responsible for working to enhance our current monitoring platform, by developing new metrics and triggers while also helping to support the daily routines of the company Data Centre and remote sites on a 24x7x365 basis. You will work with both on and off-site resources including team members from Engineering, Application, Development and Local IT and outside vendor/Contractors.
The role reports to Global Linux Engineering Manager.

How You Will Contribute

• Build out new monitoring abilities within the environment spanning over all business units.

• Build rich dashboards to visualize performance metrics for end users.

• Enhance existing monitors to provide richer data and where applicable enhance triggers to provide better alerting.

• Familiarity with interacting with RESTful API(s).

• Provide work guidance and training to less experienced personnel.

• Monitor all production systems to include servers, storage, network, and applications.

• Monitoring of facilities and data center infrastructure.

• Manage all incidents to include initial troubleshooting, escalation, notification, and remediation Create, Update and Manage tickets and escalations via e-mail, phone call or “Service Now” trouble ticketing system.

• Participate in incident and problem support activities including RCA (Root Cause Analysis) when requested.

• Investigate, diagnose, and take prescribed actions on all operational events, alarms, and incidents.

• Maintain operational logs and journals on all events, warnings, alerts, and alarms, recording and classifying all messages; maintain all operational data collection procedures, mechanisms, and tools.

• Work with manager and team leads to maintain all operational documentation and processes.

• Responsible for updating the Shift Lead System Support Engineer, Manager, or other key stakeholders with any updates on outstanding issues. Ensure that all routine maintenance tasks are completed.

What you will need to be successful

• Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Science, Electronics and Communication Engineering or any other relevant discipline.

• Minimum 7 years of experience in Information Technology focusing within the monitoring space.

• Strong knowledge of Operating systems spanning over multiple flavours, Windows, Linux, AIX, UNIX, etc.

• Strong scripting ability in Shell/Python/PowerShell/JavaScript.

• Familiarity with version control systems (e.g., Git).

• Strong knowledge of system provisioning tools preferably Ansible.

• Excellent knowledge of monitoring and monitoring solutions preferably in some or all the below.

• Zabbix, Dynatrace, Grafana, Loki

• Good understanding of containers, Hypervisors.

• Excellent understanding of networking (DNS/DHCP/TFTP/Routing)

• Keen interest in the Open-Source community and Open-Source technology.

• Self-driven individual who has the personal drive to enhance and fix issues they see during the day. While ensuring process/procedures are being performed.

• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal in English.

IFF is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

At IFF, we believe that your uniqueness unleashes our potential.  We value the diverse mosaic of the ethnicity, national origin, race, age, sex or veteran status. We strive for inclusive workplace that allows each of our colleagues to bring their authentic self to work regardless of their religion, gender identity & expression, sexual orientation, or disability. Visit IFF.com/careers/workplace-diversity-and-inclusion to learn more

We are a global leader in taste, scent, and nutrition, offering our customers a broader range of natural solutions and accelerating our growth strategy. At IFF, we believe that your uniqueness unleashes our potential. We value the diverse mosaic of the ethnicity, national origin, race, age, sex, or veteran status. We strive for an inclusive workplace that allows each of our colleagues to bring their authentic self to work regardless of their religion, gender identity & expression, sexual orientation, or disability.

Visit IFF.com/careers/workplace-diversity-and-inclusion to learn more