Job Details

Lead Logging and Monitoring Engineer

CHICAGO-60614, IL, US
04/06/2019

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Required Skills

    CISA
Company

Infinity Consulting Solutions, Inc

Experience

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Job Description

Enterprise Logging and Monitoring Lead

Description

Position Purpose: ICS is partnered with a Fortune 500 financial services organization in Chicago seeking a Logging and Monitoring Operations Engineer.

This Engineer will be responsible for leading an offshore team regarding enterprise logging and monitoring efforts. They will improve operational stability, reduce the risk of experimentation, and increase overall function of technology assets by providing robust, comprehensive logging, monitoring, and notification solutions.

In this role, a candidate should possess:

Experience in architecture, design, support maintenance, and expansion of an Enterprise Log Management (ELM infrastructure in a highly resilient configuration

Experience with a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) system is highly desirable as well.

Experience in monitoring an enterprise log management server and agent infrastructure for capacity planning and system optimization

Experience in deployment, configuration, and maintenance of log forwarder agents across a variety of UNIX and Windows platforms

Experience in collaboration with a variety of IT stakeholders in design and maintenance of production-quality log management reports and dashboards to support data analysis and visualization

Experience in creation and maintenance of documentation related to log management infrastructure configuration and operational processes

Experience in incorporating application log files into visualization tools from a centralized Syslog server

Advanced system administration skills with Linux operating systems

Identify critical data elements that must be present to ensure log files can be used for monitoring

Create indexes in clustered environment and advance the dashboarding experience

Ability to interface and engage with the customer • Experience in configuring controls and developing dashboards

Define mapping & exceptions for those log files that cannot be generated in the desired format

Identify the amount of work needed to ingest, interrogate, and map log files correctly

Perform log interrogation to determine elements

Perform mapping/pairing for various log feeds

Knowledge of regular expression, scripting, and application development languages (e.g., Python, Perl, JavaScript, Linus shell scripting, PowerShell)

Design / build / develop GrayLog solution

Design / build / develop dashboard for servers (Linux / Windows) using PRTG (or similar solution)

Automate manual processes



Requirements:


Experiencing in configuring data inputs

Designs, deploys, operates, and maintains enterprise logging & monitoring systems

Leads the day-to-day maintenance and operations of logging & monitoring team

Development of user access (rules, reports, and configuration)

Provide industry standard expertise in the deployment, configuration, and operation of monitoring & logging tools

Perform systems modeling, simulation, and analysis

Develop customized dashboards for operations, security, and management teams

Review implementation of system additions and/or enhancements and make recommendations to management team

Participate in planning and upgrades of systems, design systems enhancements, and monitor capacity to maintain operational capacity in accordance with change management processes Develop documentation (as required) on new or existing systems

Ensures systems meet documented user requirements

Participate in identification, analysis, and resolution of system problems

Periodically patches system during off hours

Ability to work on-call (after-hour) work

Candidate should have experience in infrastructure administration such as Unix, Linux, networking, Windows, and firewalls

Have GrayLog developer experience

Understands Elasticsearch technologies

Understands how to work with (Filebeat / Metricbeats / winlogbeat / logstash)

Have advanced Grafana experience or any equivalent technologies

Advanced knowledge of Python/JavaScript / other languages



Other requirements:


Has exceptional oral and written communication, interpersonal, time management, presentation, and negotiation skills

Has exceptional customer support skills

Has ability to exceptionally manage multiple tasks with varying priorities simultaneously



Preferred:


Bachelor's degree and 5 years of relevant work experience

Experience with ISO 27001

Experience with OpsGenie or PagerDuty

Experience with SolarWinds

CISSP, CISM, or CISA certifications



Physical requirements/Working conditions:


Climate controlled office environment

Minimal physical requirements other than occasional light lifting of boxed materials • Dynamic, time-sensitive, trade room environment

Travel as needed


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Candidate Requirements
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Bachelors

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Recruiter Details
Doug Klares
1350 Broadway, Suite 2205, NEW YORK-10018, NY, US
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