Managed Services Engineer - Monitoringat CDW Careers

CDW’s vision is to be THE national provider of Managed Services. We’ll achieve this reputation by continuing to delight our customers and being the employer of choice for Managed Services. Engineers at CDW are responsible for the development and delivery of our Managed Services offerings. Engineers apply the necessary technical breadth to providing top level technical support services and operational leadership, including problem resolution, and technical change implementation for Managed Services clients. Engineers at CDW are smart, hardworking individuals with top level experience and enjoy working on highly visible, technically challenging projects and service offerings. They are high caliber, well rounded professionals who are passionate about emerging technology, with exceptional customer service and communication skills.

The Monitoring and Automation Engineer provides support for the 3rd party applications leveraged by CDW Managed Services to support our service catalog and operations. The 3rd party applications involved consist of enterprise monitoring/diagnostic, orchestration and ITSM tools.  This role is a member of the team responsible for the availability, improvements to, and expansion of this toolset.

Key Areas of Responsibility

• Work with technology owners and stakeholders to formalize requirements and business needs.
• Collaborate with Senior Engineers to determine optimal solution architecture, efficiency, maintainability, and scalability.
• Translate requirements and business needs into application solutions, and implement those solutions.
• Develop and execute test plans to ensure service continuity as new solutions are implemented.
• Develop and maintain applications to CDW standards and quality
• Participate in Scrum activities, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups and sprint reviews.
• Perform operational activities required to maintain system availability and meet the needs of stakeholders.
• Perform client consulting in a specialized area of technology (Network, OS, Converged, UC, etc).
• Design ,plan, and implement solutions using the latest technology.
• Provide innovative technical solutions to complex hardware/software problems.
• Provide design, implementation, technical support services and consulting to Managed Services clients to meet their business needs.
• Understand and Deliver Managed Services offerings as outlined in the CDW Service Descriptions and Service Catalog.
• Understand and follow the processes and procedures defined in the CDW ManS Standard Operating Procedures manual (SOP).
• Provide detailed and effective communication to internal and external customers.
• Clearly and concisely articulate problems and solutions for issues to clients both over the phone, via e-mail and in person.
• Member of on-call rotation to provide 24 X 7 support to critical systems and ensure availability objectives are met.
• Conduct throughput analysis, problem solving, and infrastructure planning.
• Participate in various client projects intended to continually improve/upgrade technology infrastructures.
• Create and execute test plans to meet project requirements for assigned components.
• Identify and communicate potential opportunities for cross-selling to the sales team.
• Manage time and expense to meet or exceed expectations defined in the Statement of Work.
• Provide high quality content deliverables using the appropriate document templates.
• Ensure solution is implemented as designed to the customer’s satisfaction and approval.
• As an Engineer provide technical services with some supervision from Supervisors, Team Leads, and Technology Owners.
• Ability to follow through with tasks, projects, troubleshooting with some supervision.
• Complete projects/tasks on a timely basis, according to commitments made to stakeholders and management.
• Performs scopes of work as detailed in implementation plans assigned (system builds, test plans, documentation, training, etc).

Education and/or Experience Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years of engineering experience
• BA/BS degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, or related discipline; equivalent experience acceptable.

Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated understanding of object-oriented design and programming techniques.
• Demonstrated understanding of an agile software development process
• Ability to work effectively with and support the needs of project team members and stakeholders
• Possess an understanding of the stages of the software development life cycle - Requirements gathering, Design, Development, Testing, and Implementation.
• Demonstrate solid interpersonal skills and be resourceful in order to participate in the development process
• Capable of resolving critical issues in a time sensitive manner, cognizant of requisite service levels.
• Ability to establish customer trust and confidence in the CDW Managed Services
• Knowledge of and concern for customers’ business needs.
• History of balancing multiple priorities simultaneously with the ability to adapt to the changing needs of the customers while meeting deadlines. 
• Critical attention to detail and solid creative problem solving skills.
• Ability to perform intermediate root cause analysis.
• Strong organizational, analytical, and problem solving skills.
• Customer Service focused and a high level of professionalism.
• Ability to consistently follow policies and procedures.
• Strong communication and documentation skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively interact with all coworkers and stakeholders, including senior leadership.
• Ability to prioritize work and handle multiple tasks simultaneously in a fast paced, diverse and growth-oriented environment.
• Must know when to ask for assistance. Must be approachable, teachable, a team player with a strong desire to continue learning and expanding their experience in a highly evolving technical environment.
• Must have good time management skills and be able to meet rigid and urgent assignment schedules.
• Ability to understand, remember, and apply oral and/or written instructions or other information. Ability to organize thoughts and ideas into understandable terminology. Ability to multi-task, organize and prioritize. Ability to apply common sense in performing job. Ability to understand and follow basic instructions and guidelines. Ability to travel as needed.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with monitoring applications including but not limited to ScienceLogic, Dynatrace, Prognosis.
• Experience with IT Operations/Service Management applications including but not limited to ServiceNow.
• Working knowledge of scripting/programming languages (Python, PHP, Javascript)
• Experience developing and using web services (REST or SOAP).
• Experience with relational databases (MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL).
• Experience with non-relational databases (Cassandra).
• Experience with Test Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior Driven Development (BDD) tools (JUnit, Cucumber, Jasmine).
• Experience with version control software (Git, Gerrit, Subversion).
• Experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Ajax. - Working knowledge of Configuration Management, Continuous Integration and DevOps tools (Ansible, Jenkins, Docker).
• Experience with Unix command line.
• Masters assigned discipline within technical offering (ie: Route/Switch, Content Networking, Wireless, Security)
• Hands-on experience in a large Data Center environment
• ITIL Foundations Certification