Job Description

If you are talented and experienced as a site reliability specialist, Aplin has the right opportunity for you! Our Ottawa-based client is seeking a site reliability specialist. This is a 2-year contract with high potential for extension. This is a hybrid opportunity available to candidates in the Ottawa area.

Advantages and advantages:

• Competitive Salary
• high-energy, team-focused environment

Responsibilities:

• Monitor log feeds, flows, and alerts for data interruptions and server health.
• Perform the administration of monitoring platforms and related infrastructure, working with IT specialists in cyber, network, storage, security, virtual infrastructure, platform, and database to deliver their logging requirements.
• Work with employees to refine monitoring dashboards.
• Monitor the performance of systems and service agreements to ensure that ongoing service delivery standards, service levels, and IT policies are met.
• Examine and improve current logs, and when possible, look into opportunities for automation or fine tuning.
• Make and maintain management packs and scripts.
• Support the migration of data sources and log traffic.
• other related activities and deliverables as required.

Qualifications:

• A university degree or college diploma in computer science, networking, engineering, or a related field
• A minimum of five (5) years of relevant work experience with log management and monitoring
• must be able to attain a secret security clearance.
• Splunk and Syslog-NG experience is required.
• knowledge of SCOM (2012 R2, 2016, and 1807) and vendor management packs.
• demonstrated experience with SCOM report customization and SQL Report Server administration.
• experience with SolarWinds.
• Experience with basic admin-level Windows or Linux basic operations around file systems
• experience with PowerShell scripting.
• Knowledge of load testing, monitoring, and performance management tools for every layer of the environment
• demonstrated experience using scripting languages such as Bash or Python, specifically for system automation.
• Demonstrated experience in log management, service, network, and application monitoring is an asset.
• Experience with testing high availability environments and performing disaster recovery tests is a plus.
• Demonstrated knowledge and expertise in site reliability engineering, creating SLOs and SLAs, enhancing observability, and incident management work is an asset.
• Demonstrated experience with infrastructure scripting and automation or familiarity with infrastructure as code is an asset.

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