Systems Engineer III – (Splunk, Extrahop) - Atlanta / Seattle - Full-time / Part-time

Combine two of the fastest-growing fields on the planet with a culture of performance, collaboration and opportunity and this is what you get. Leading edge technology in an industry that's improving the lives of millions. Here, innovation isn't about another gadget, it's about making health care data available wherever and whenever people need it, safely and reliably. There's no room for error. Join us and start doing your life's best work.(sm)

Supports the operations, development and implementation teams. Promotes improved infrastructure architectures and best practices. Provides an interface to the customer development teams. Provides a systems focus when working with design application architectures. Tune/optimize deployed applications from a systems perspective. This requires an individual with proven experience with:

• Virtualization


• Database and application server optimization


• Interacting with Development teams focusing on maximizing effectiveness without compromising production environments


• Work as a final escalation point for Internal and Customer deployed application environments

Primary Responsibilities:

• Design, scale, and automate Monitoring and Alerting infrastructure


• Build resilient and self-scaling systems


• Monitor site stability and performance


• Willing to participate in on-call production support rotation


• Able to quickly understand complex applications and come up with performance test strategies and scenarios


• Individual chosen will be the SME for Splunk design and expansion. Administration, configuration and troubleshooting for Extrahop


• Consolidates and normalizes log data looking for anomalies and running reports


• Created customized and ad hoc reporting using regular expressions


• Creating standardized reports and threshold alerting mechanisms


• Driving and managing the technology evaluation and integration of add-ons for Splunk


• Analyze results of monitoring and make recommendations on performance
  

Required Qualifications:

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  Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience in Engineering, Mathematics, or Computer Science


• Expert knowledge Monitoring and Alerting landscape, tools, best practices


• Building and Managing Monitoring and Alerting infrastructure in a Highly-Available, 24x7 production environment


• Experience with System Management tools (Splunk, Extrahop preferred)


• Advanced and proven experience achieving and maintaining 99.999% availability of networks and network services


• Experienced with environments having 40+ servers


• Well organized with a healthy sense of urgency, and able to set, communicate, and meet aggressive deadlines and milestones


• Able and comfortable presenting to customers


• Self-Managed and Organized, able to schedule own work flow


• Excellent Trouble Shooting Skills. Comfortable making recommendations at the Enterprise level, looking at systems holistically as well as individual components experience with Linux in a server environment 

Preferred Qualifications:

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  Experience with networking, server, application and web technologies


• Experience in Linux


• Sniffer products (protocols)


• Experienced with hosting and scaling Java application servers (Tomcat, JBoss, etc.) in a highly available and high throughput environment


• Experience with MSSQL


• Working knowledge of maintaining databases, optimizing developer queries, index creation, replication, backup, Network and server technologies. Experience maintaining systems in a load balancer hardware and software (F5 BigIP)


• Script development experience using Perl, PHP, TCL, windows Batch, Bash Shell, Python, etc.


• Experience with VMware


• Experience with Windows 2003 a2008R, 2012


• Understanding of Network Spans, SNMP


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  Experience with at least either SQL or Oracle



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  Understanding of IIS, connection pooling preferred -  WMI, JMX



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  Experience using tools like Syslog-ng, Cacti, and rrdtool, Solarwinds, SevOne, Network Instruments, and Keynote/Gomez



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  Proficient with at least scripting language on Unix (Perl, PHP, Python)



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  Experience with at least SAN vendor's technology

Are you ready for an opportunity that can transform your career? Get on the Alere Health team as we continue to transform health care every day. Now part of Optum, Alere Health is building a future of opportunities. We provide leading edge products and services including condition and case management, wellbeing, and women's and children's health services for more than 200 health plans, 89 Fortune 500 employers, 29 states and 22 million people. Now, with our integration into Optum and the UnitedHealth Group organization, our growth and impact is multiplying every day.

If you bring a lot of passion and aspiration to your work, you'll fit in here and discover the opportunity to do your life's best work.SM

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

Job Keywords: Systems Engineer, Virtualization, Splunk, Monitoring, Alerting, Windows Server, Extrahop, MSSQL, Linux, Network, VMWare, Oracle, SAN, Atlanta, GA, Georgia, Seattle, WA, Washington