Nagios Automation Engineer w/ Scripting and Linux -Philadelphia, PA - Georgia IT Inc.

Philadelphia, PA

About the Job

Position Title: Nagios Automation Engineer w/ Scripting and Linux
Rate: $ 40/ hour
Job Location: Philadelphia, PA Skype To Hire J

2 – 3 years Experience in automating processes via api's, bash/perl/python scripting in a medium to enterprise business.
• 5 + years of experience with the Nagios monitoring engine (experience with Op5 commercial package a plus)
Ability to understand and tune-up internal settings in linux (centos/redhat) environment is required.
• Strong understanding of linux processes, user management, file system management is essential.

Company Overview:
This fast-paced employer is one of America's largest video, high-speed Internet, and phone providers. It also enjoys an international reputation as a leading media, entertainment, and communications company. The corporate culture presented by the employer provides an innovative and diverse environment for employees, and reflects the individuality of its customer base. Working for this company will guarantee access to innovative technology, and it has also been consistently competitive in "top places to work” lists.
Scope:
In this role you will be responsible for proactive monitoring as well as architecting monitoring builds, automation and new deployments in a Linux environment. This is a new and growing team supporting a state of the art & cutting edge platform

Experience

• 2 – 3 years Experience in automating processes via api's, bash/perl/python scripting in a medium to enterprise business.
• 5 + years of experience with the Nagios monitoring engine (experience with Op5 commercial package a plus)
• 5 + years of experience with Nagios extensions and the Nagios open source community
• 5 + years experience architectural design of monitoring infrastructure on Nagios monitoring solution or similar platform's such as (Netcool, or Zabbix)
• 5 + years experience designing and implementing dynamic monitoring systems for elastic virtual private clouds and bare metal.
Technical Skills

• Scripting background – bash/perl/python
• Ability to work with teams in a dynamic organizational environment
• Worked with plugins
• Sound knowledge of internal and external monitoring best practices
• Ability to understand and tune-up internal settings in linux (centos/redhat) environment is required.
• Strong understanding of linux processes, user management, file system management is essential.
• Ability to implement kernel upgrade/patch upgrade and should have sound knowledge on package management.
• Should have sound knowledge on linux security features (iptables, selinux, ACL etc).
• Sound knowledge on using traceroute, netstat, telnet, and other commands for troubleshooting.
• Strong in Shell scripting. Should be able to automate tasks via shell scripts.
• Strong troubleshooting skills. Would need to analyze and provide break-fix for re-occurring issues.
• Should have sound knowledge on networking with respect operating system.
• Good understanding of SSH, Apache, DNS, DHCP, NFS, Tomcat etc, services is essential.
• Should be aware of up-coming/new technologies.
• Hands-on Openstack is advantage.
Type of Assignment:
Contract
Interview Process:
Phone followed by a F2F. Skype may be possible for the right candidate.

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