Advanced Planning Consultant

Flexion Inc. a Madison, WI based IT Consulting and Services firm is looking for a Automation/Monitoring Engineer to work on a long-term consulting project. The client for this position is based in Madison, WI but work for this position can be done remotely in the United States. .

This person will be responsible for delivering and supporting enterprise level monitoring for subnets, systems, applications, service, and business activities via the heavy use of development skills in Java, JavaScript, and Python. As part of the Observability Team, this position will be involved in crafting and implemented the monitoring strategy and tools usage documentation for automated processes within the team. This Individual will work with senior members to gather monitoring requirements from stakeholders and deliver solutions utilizing the enterprise monitoring toolset (AWS, GCP, Datadog, Dynatrace, and others.

• Develop and maintain automation create in Java, Java Script, and Python (this includes API calls to applications and load balancers)
• Develop and maintain automation within Confluence
• Develop automated remediation workflows (Service Now, API, etc.)
• Support application monitoring for .Net, Java, SaaS, AWS, and other application architectures via the use of API calls
• Understand the differences between PaaS, IaaS, and SaaS and best practices for the monitoring of each
• Understand log analytics monitoring with ELK and/or Splunk for migration to Datadog
• Provide deep visibility into on-prem, cloud and hybrid applications performance
• Support the efforts for ongoing Datadog configurations and platform implementation via the API
• Implement application monitoring, synthetic and real user monitoring solutions following best practices across the enterprise
• Collaborate with Business and Technology to design and implement performance benchmarks for each application, and report results periodically

• At least three years of web application development experience
• At least three years of Service coding / message framework experience (SOAP / REST)
• Experience with Datadog API, Dynatrace API, Service Now API, ELK, and other industry standard monitoring platforms
• Strong Experience in Python, Java, JavaScript and other programing language
• Strong Experience with cloud (AWS, GCP) deployment scripting (Terraform, Cloud Formation, etc.)
• Working knowledge of application monitoring best practices
• Experience with multiple hardware and operating systems such as Unix, Linux, Windows, and/or VMware, EC2, ECS, Containers, and Lambda functionality
• Experience with application performance management technologies: server and application (realand synthetic) monitoring components
• Strong Experience in integrating Observability tools with Service Now, Git Lab, Ansible, and other industry standard platforms
• Synthetic monitoring tools including browser-based testing and load generators
• Infrastructure monitoring tools: client, server, network, logs

The salary range for this position is $60-70/hr.

Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer