Systems Engineer c2c contract jobs Washington, DC

Job Title: Systems Engineer

Job Location: Washington, DC (Remote)

Job Type: Contract

Notes:

Only for DC/MD/VA/WV/NC/PA/DE
Only for H1B & H4-EAD
Must have 7 Years of Experience in USA Market
Must have 3 years of Experience with DataDog
 

Key Notes:

100% Remote
If there is a need to come onsite, they should be close enough to come to office when required
5 to 8 years of experience with 3+ years of experience with Datadog
Datadog monitoring tool for application performance monitoring
200 applications
Configured APM (Application Performance Monitoring), log management, network monitoring, cloud monitoring, infrastructure monitoring consolidating all monitoring tool
Familiar with datadog tool
Administration, troubleshooting, expertise in instrumenting applications, telemetry into datadog. – MUST HAVE
All updates to Datadog environment – MUST HAVE
Log management, network monitoring and synthetic monitoring as well
Most applications are Java on Linux, Tomcat – Familiar with Java applications using datadog monitoring platform, Linux will be needed for Java applications
Agile background – MUST HAVE
Prefer to have Ansible scripting as it is used to deploy Datadog. – NICE TO HAVE
Integrating CloudWatch with datadog to capture logs whatever AWS sends to CloudWatch – NICE TO HAVE
 

Job Description:

DataDog Administration experience on Linux platform to instrument Java based applications running on Tomcat Application Server.
Configuration experience in Infrastructure Monitoring, Network Monitoring and Centralized Logging.
Or similar Administration experience with ELK Stack – Elasticsearch (search and analytics engine), Logstash (ingest pipeline) and Kibana (visualization and creating dashboards).
Strong Linux platform (Red Hat) background.
Automation experience with scripting (Python, Shell, ANSIBLE) preferred.
Understanding of SSL setup on Linux servers. Installing CA certs etc.
Experience with Network Monitoring and knowledge on Network components like Switches, Routers, Palo Alto Network utilization SNMP, F5 Load Balancers, WebSeal, Info Blocks, Gigamon, Network Mapping is a plus.
Working knowledge of other monitoring tools like Big Panda, CloudBeat (Synthetic Monitoring) is desired. These tools are used to monitor applications and business transactions that impact the business and customers, currently.
Responsibilities include script writing, installing, managing, and maintaining the monitoring tools, as needed, as well as integration with other tools and collaboration with other groups and their tools.