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Position Purpose
The monitoring-subteam is responsible for the whole monitoring infrastructure, based on icinga for on-premise and for the cloud-related assets based on Dynatrace, including supporting systems like Grafana, Jenkins, Influxdb and the corresponding maintenance. The team takes care on the overall application livecycle of the monitoring systems of PI Germany, which means they are responsible for installing, upgrading, maintaining all kinds of updates, patches, hotfixes, In addition to that, they are direct contact for all kind of requests related to the monitoring infrastructure, i.e. service requests for adding/modifying systems, or modifying checks. They also take care of the used monitoring plugins, and also the used custom plugins.The Application Engineering Subteam is responsible for setting up and integrating new business applications, and finally bringing them into production. We are dealing with e.g. apache tomcat, apache httpd, nginx, jboss eap (all based on linux) and many other legacy applications. Currently we are integrating our ansible scripts and roles into our rundeck solution, to provide a proper frontend for triggering application deployments. As part of that team, it is necessary to troubleshoot, develop and enhance our application automation infrastructure, based on ansible and rundeck, to provide a stable and error-freesolution.Responsibilities
Direct Responsibilities- Installing, upgrading, maintaining of all related software products and applications (icinga, Grafana, Jenkins, influxdb, )- Maintaining the usage of Dynatrace, its interfaces and related automations- Maintaining of the overall monitoring configuration based on ServiceNow Tickets- Maintaining the current installation in view of obsolescence, hotfixes, updates, patches, - Enhancing the current installation in view of future needs or business needsAnd/or- Installing, upgrading, maintaining our ansible based application automation environment, into our rundeck solution- Implementation of new roles based on the needs and requirements from either ourself, or from other IT- or Business-teams- Troubleshooting in case of errors due to the regular patching and lifecycle process- Focusing on security related topics, like product-hardening, patching-cycles, vulnerability-avoidance-Developing of additionally needed ansible plugins for our infrastructure (based on python)-Integrating and maintaining ansible-based roles for other kinds of infrastructure, like F5 Loadbalancer, Monitoring, Contributing Responsibilities-Providing support for the corresponding teams, which work with the monitoring infrastructure, i.e. ITO Pilotage (L1/L2) for Monitoring issues, alerts, notifications; Application Engineering for developing new plugins or enhancing existing ones, or also application development for providing background information regarding application monitoring or in case of troubles with their pipelines and workflows- Contacting the group responsibles of the cloud monitoring infrastructure for alignment on their and our prerequisites and/or the team(s) which are responsible for providing and running the application automation infrastructure and their componentsTechnical & Behavioral Competencies
- Good it-knowledge in general, mainly Linux-Knowlegde is needed- Advanced Linux Operating Systems (esp. RedHat Linux) Administration knowledge- Good experience in scripting / Automation based on bash, python, perl, ansible, rundeck Jenkins- Good troubleshooting skills and logical way of thinking- Good knowledge and experience in different types of monitoring applications / environments, like Xymon, Icinga, Grafana, Influxdb, Dynatrace- Good knowledge and experience in designing and developing ansible roles and corresponding python modules- Good knowledge in other, infrastructure based components, like f5 loadbalancers, Firewalls, networs, ..- Base knowledge in cloud-architecture and principles (in order to support the move 2 cloud project)Specific Qualifications (if required)
- Successfully completed studies in computer science or business informatics or comparable knowledge and experience acquired through practical and IT training- Good knowledge and experience in Jenkins automation- Good knowledge and experience in Ansible and Rundeck and Gitlab automation- Several years of professional experience in the IT application management or in the support of complex IT applications- Advanved skills in Demand management and Software-Engineering- Working with gitlab as source code versioning system- Advanced linguistic proficiency in English - Expert knowledge in cloud-architecture (Private-, Public- and Hybrid Cloud)- Analytical skills- Fundamental database technology knowledge (Oracle, Postresql, )- Very good German and English language skills in word and writingSkills Referential
Behavioural Skills(Please select up to 4 skills)Ability to collaborate / TeamworkOrganizational skillsClient focusedCreativity & Innovation / Problem solvingTransversal Skills:
(Please select up to 5 skills)Analytical AbilityAbility to anticipate business / strategic evolutionChoose an item.Choose an item.Choose an item.Education Level:Master Degree or equivalentExperience LevelAt least 5 yearsOther/Specific Qualifications (if required)CompetenceLinux administrationScripting skillsGitlabAnsibleJenkinsRundeckPythonIcingaDynatraceCloud-Technologies
