Monitoring Engineer – ScienceLogic & Virtualization (Supporting Migration Program)

Monitoring Engineer – ScienceLogic
Contract Role (some travel - approx. 1 week every other month)
Remote

Own and advance ScienceLogic-based monitoring environment primarily focused on a large scale VMware → Red Hat OpenShift migration.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary owner for ScienceLogic within the team.
• Configure, maintain, and optimize ScienceLogic to monitor:
  • Virtualized services
  • Underlying infrastructure
• Implement and tune:
  • Metrics, thresholds, and alerting
  • Dashboards and reports for operations teams
• Continuously update and refresh monitoring configurations as platforms and services evolve (continuous update/refresh model).
• Collaborate with the migration engineer to ensure:
  • New OpenShift-based services are properly monitored.
  • Legacy VMware services remain visible during transition.
• Create documentation for monitoring standards, configurations, and operational use.
• Participate in knowledge sharing and training of operations teams on monitoring practices and tools.
• Support operational readiness by ensuring robust visibility into performance, availability, and incidents.

Required Technical Skills:

• ScienceLogic (primary for this role)
• Hands-on experience implementing or managing ScienceLogic for enterprise environments.
• Virtualization awareness: Understanding of virtualized infrastructure concepts and components (hypervisors, VMs, services).
• Ability to translate infrastructure and applications into sensible monitoring constructs.
• General Linux/Infrastructure knowledge: Comfort working around Linux-based systems and infrastructure used in large enterprises.
• Monitoring & observability
  • Strong background with monitoring concepts: KPIs, SLAs, alert design, noise reduction, dashboards.
• Documentation & process
  • Ability to write clear operational documentation and monitoring standards.

Preferred Skills:

• Exposure to Red Hat OpenShift and/or VMware environments (even if not the primary specialty).
• Prior experience supporting platform migrations from a monitoring perspective.
• Familiarity with other monitoring or APM tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, etc.).