Sumo Monitoring Engineer

Title: Sumo Monitoring Engineer
Duration: 12 Months contract
Location: Eagan, MN

Responsibilities
Create and maintain Sumo dashboards
Build log search queries
Configure monitors and alerts
Perform log analysis and troubleshooting
Identify trends, failures, bottlenecks, and root causes
Understand source categories, log ingestion, and monitoring coverage gaps
Ability to digest application and integration architecture
Read solution diagrams and understand data flows
Understand APIs, microservices, integrations, batch jobs, file transfers, and messaging systems
Translate business monitoring needs into technical monitoring solutions

Qualifications
Strong understanding of: Metrics, Logs, Traces, Monitoring strategies and health checks, Alerting and threshold design
Experience with tools such as: Sumo Logic (preferred), Splunk, Datadog, Dynatrace, etc.
Strong query language skills (SQL-like experience acceptable)
Ability to investigate logs and data sources
Research available data and determine what can be monitored
Strong communication skills
Ability to work with application teams, architects, developers, and support teams
Ability to explain technical concepts to business users
Ability to develop monitoring strategies rather than simply build dashboards