AppDynamics Consultant

Job Description

Job Description:

APP Dynamics:

"Engineer for design and implementation of Application Performance Management (APM) toolsets in large-scale, enterprise environments. Prior implementation and customizations experience with APM tools such as AppDynamics; CA Wily; New Relic; Dynatrace, or similar in Unix environments needed. 

Job Summary: APM Engineer will operate on the team responsible for delivery of Application Performance Management and Monitoring Tools. Among the team’s functions are APM product engineering and customizations so as to meet security requirements and enhance automation; design of a deployment architecture that is scalable; resilient; and cost-effective; provide DevOps personnel with guidelines and best practices for usage; promote usage of APM during the development lifecycle phase; optimize use of APM across platforms and service delivery models. Focus on APM toolsets for proactive monitoring of multi-tier applications and end user experience.  

Key Responsibilities:

• Engineer solutions and establish standards for AppDynamics Controller and agent deployments, including optimizations and tunings per requirements.

• Adopt AppDynamics for usage in Cloud IaaS and PaaS models. 

• Devise an authentication and authorization model for AppDynamics within standard Client security framework. Develop customizations as needed.

• Architect a highly-available and scalable Controller infrastructure with appropriate monitoring and alerting mechanisms. 

• Seek opportunities for automated deployments so as to reduce operational tasks.

• Seek opportunities for integration of AppDynamics with other monitoring tools in the Client portfolio.

• Test and implement AppDynamics Monitoring Extensions appropriate for Client’s technology stack (e.g. Webservers; Messaging Tiers). 

• Test and implement AppDynamics Database Agent.

• Test and implement AppDynamics End User Experience Monitoring.

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Required Skills:

• Strong AppDynamics product knowledge, internals, and product REST API.

• Extensive industry experience in deploying AppDynamics for mission critical applications.   

• Working experience in monitoring and performance tools. 

• Strong technical skill sets in Java and Unix shell scripting. 

• Exposure to full application lifecycle development including coding; testing; deployment; and post-implementation activities.  

• Ability to develop AppDynamics Monitoring Extensions. 

• Excellent Oral and Written Communication Skills

"Additional Skills Preferred:

• Exposure to Cloud environments such as CloudFoundry.

• Exposure to authentication and entitlement management with LDAP or SAML.

• Exposure to Middleware components such as WebServer, AppServer, Messaging, Integration 

Qualifications

"Engineer for design and implementation of Application Performance Management (APM) toolsets in large-scale, enterprise environments. Prior implementation and customizations experience with APM tools such as AppDynamics; CA Wily; New Relic; Dynatrace, or similar in Unix environments needed. 

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