Monitoring Expert / Contract / The Hague

Full-Time 30000 - 50000 £ / year (est.) No home office possible

An international organisation is looking for a Monitoring Expert to join their team. This is the perfect opportunity for somebody who enjoys working in a multi-cultural environment and is looking to take the next step in their career. This is a 1 year contract role and the all-inclusive daily rate for this role is €445.

You will be expected to:

Implement monitoring requests required by the Service Level Manager and the Developer’s Team
Provide support to Incident Management to diagnose and fix issues in the production environment
Design, build, configure and test monitoring probes for a wide range of systems and applications
Carry out research to define systems according to needs
Pinpoint malfunction causes and suggest remedial action and alternative solutions
Act as an acknowledged go-between for experts from other areas
Add probing to new Linux nodes
Maintain monitoring CMDB
Monitor technologies
Put forward solutions to improve systems performance
Establish rules for the proper management of systems
Define systems from a functional and technical standpoint
Check that standards are implemented

Technical Skills Required:

University degree with at least 5 years’ experience
Experience in writing secure and resilient code in Perl and Java
Experience in using Monitoring tools: CA-Nimsoft is desirable and knowledge of AXWAY/Systar product is required
Event management based on the interface between the monitoring tool and the ITSM tool
Event correlation rules design and optimisation experience
Experience in a vast range of enterprise technologies such as databases, Unix, Linux, Windows, Cloud-based applications, storage and virtualisation technologies, switches and firewalls
Good knowledge of MS/SQL
Basic knowledge of ITIL V3 is desirable
Fluent spoken and written English
Ability to create and maintain technical documentation
Consistently meeting deadlines with high quality documentation
Coordination of multiple procedures simultaneously
Working with and communicating to stakeholders at all levels of the organisation

If you wish to be considered or you want to know more about the role then please contact us as soon as possible. These opportunities do not present themselves often.