Remote Contract-to-Hire Opportunity Lighthouse Technology Services is partnering with our client to fill their Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Engineer position. This is a 6+ month contract-to-hire opportunity and will be remote in the United States (EST working hours). This role will be a W2 employee of Lighthouse Technology Services.
What You'll Be Doing: - Install, configure, and maintain Zabbix, Dynatrace, Foglight, Splunk, and CloudWatch monitoring tools.
- Work with application teams to define thresholds and configure alerts.
- Perform daily operations such as release management, health checks, log analysis, and alert reviews.
- Conduct trend and prediction analysis and tune system alerts.
- Create custom Splunk dashboards and scripts for application monitoring.
- Support Kubernetes monitoring using Dynatrace and maintain AWS monitoring via CloudWatch.
- Upgrade and patch monitoring infrastructure.
- Support incident response and participate in troubleshooting calls.
- Collaborate across teams for root cause analysis and proactive system improvements.
- Manage service requests within defined SLAs and communicate status updates clearly.
- Leverage Azure DevOps for tracking PBIs and task assignments.
What You'll Need to Have: - 8+ years of experience as a Performance Monitoring Engineer.
- Expertise in Zabbix, Dynatrace, Splunk, Foglight, and AWS CloudWatch.
- Proficient in Shell scripting and PowerShell.
- Experience with backups, restores, and recovery models.
- Solid understanding of Windows and Linux platforms.
- Experience with SQL, DB concepts, and microservices architecture.
- Experience with Azure DevOps.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
- Ability to multitask, think critically, and communicate technical concepts to varied audiences.
Pay Range: $50-$60/hr +
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