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Compass Pointe Consulting · 3 months ago

Network Observability Engineer

Owings Mills, Maryland, United States

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

$54/hr - $59/hr

4+ years exp

Compass Pointe Consulting is a company in the Financial Services industry seeking a Network Observability Engineer. The role involves evaluating, recommending, and implementing proactive management tools for a converged data, voice, and video network environment, while also maintaining and customizing management tools to enhance productivity and visibility into infrastructure health.

ConsultingInformation TechnologyStaffing Agency

Responsibilities

Evaluate, recommend, and implement a suite of proactive management tools needed to maintain a stable and efficient converged data, voice, and video network environment

Configure and maintain off-the-shelf management tools for real-time and historical visibility into network faults and performance

Keep tool versions up to date while following change control procedures and work with management tool vendors as needed to deal with software deficiencies

Leverage software development skills to maintain, modify, and create customized programs, tools and scripts providing enhanced productivity through automation and increasing visibility into infrastructure health and performance

Research and provide timely resolution to any management tool issues that may compromise Network Operations’ proactive visibility into network infrastructure

Qualification

UNIX/RedHat LinuxSNMP MIBsNetwork management toolsAutomation (Ansible)PythonCisco configurationMySQLPostgresVerticaServiceNow integrationsGitlabJSONPerlThousandEyesScienceLogicSolarWindsInfoblox IPAM

Required

Proficiency with UNIX/RedHat Linux including some systems administration experience

Strong understanding of SNMP MIBs, Syslog, NetFlow, TACACS, SNMP Traps and alerting

Familiar with databases such as MySQL, Postgres, and Vertica

Proficient in Microsoft Office products

Self-motivated with ability to work independently once up to speed on the environment

Preferred

3+ years of proven experience managing and creating network management tools and scripts

ServiceNow integrations

xMatters alerting through ServiceNow

Automation such as Ansible

Gitlab

Cisco router & switch configuration

JSON

Perl

Python

ThousandEyes

ScienceLogic

SolarWinds

Infoblox IP Address Management (IPAM) experience including NIOS, DDI, DNS, DHCP

Installation, Configuration, Integrations (API/REST), SSL, and certificates

Network Insight discovery, ‘vDiscovery' for VMware (NSX), and ‘Cloud' (AWS, Route53, Azure, etc.)

Knowledge of the Broadcom/CA DX NetOps suite that includes Spectrum, Performance Center with components (Vertica repository, Data Collector, Data Aggregator), Network Flow Analyzer, Virtual Network Assurance and Business Intelligence