Monitoring Engineer

Job Title:

Monitoring Engineer
Duration: 12+ Months

Location:

Plano, Texas
Rate: $70-$73/hour W2

Monitoring Tools Engineer Overview We are seeking an experienced Monitoring Tools Engineer to support and enhance enterprise monitoring platforms across a large banking environment. This engineer will be responsible for implementing, optimizing, and maintaining proactive monitoring solutions that improve operational visibility, reduce Mean Time to Repair (MTTR), and prevent production incidents. The ideal candidate has deep hands-on experience with Dynatrace and Splunk, understands infrastructure and application monitoring, and can partner closely with application, production support, and infrastructure teams to drive monitoring best practices.

• 5+ years of enterprise monitoring/observability engineering experience
• 3+ years of hands-on Dynatrace administration and implementation
• 3+ years of hands-on Splunk administration and monitoring
• Experience implementing Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring
• Strong experience designing monitoring strategies for enterprise applications
• Experience configuring:
  • Dashboards
  • Alerts
  • Events
  • Thresholds
  • Notifications
• Proven success reducing Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) through proactive monitoring
• Scripting experience (Power Shell, Python, Bash, Shell, or similar)
• Strong Unix/Linux administration experience
• Windows Server administration experience
• Basic networking knowledge (TCP/IP, DNS, Load Balancing, HTTP/S, firewalls)

• Financial services or large enterprise experience
• Experience supporting hundreds or thousands of applications
• Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
• Infrastructure monitoring
• Cloud monitoring (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• ITIL / Production Support experience
• Service Now
• Automation of monitoring deployments
• Log analytics and event correlation
• Root Cause Analysis (RCA)

• Deploy and administer Dynatrace across a large application portfolio
• Implement and maintain Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring
• Configure and optimize Splunk monitoring solutions
• Design monitoring standards for applications and infrastructure
• Build dashboards, alerts, events, and thresholds
• Tune alerting to minimize false positives while improving issue detection
• Work with application teams to onboard monitoring for new applications
• Collaborate with Production Support during incident response and troubleshooting
• Develop scripts to automate monitoring administration and reporting
• Analyze monitoring data to identify trends and performance bottlenecks
• Drive continuous improvements that reduce MTTR and increase application reliability
• Document monitoring standards and best practices

• Dynatrace
• Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring
• Splunk
• Linux
• Unix
• Windows Server
• Power Shell
• Bash
• Python
• Networking (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/S)
• Enterprise Production Support
• Large-scale Banking Environment

Experience Matters. Let your experience be driven by our experience. For more than 40 years, Matlen Silver has delivered solutions for complex talent and technology needs to Fortune 500 companies and industry leaders. Led by hard work, honesty, and a trusted team of experts, we can say that Matlen Silver technology has created a solutions experience and legacy of success that is the difference in the way the world works.

Matlen Silver is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers all applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, the presence of a non-job-related medical condition or disability, or any other legally protected status.

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At The Matlen Silver Group, Inc., W2 employees are eligible for the following benefits:

• Health, vision, and dental insurance (single and family coverage)
• 401(k) plan (employee contributions only)