Application Performance Monitoring Lead

Location : Noida, Pune, Hyderabad. We are seeking an experienced and highly skilled Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Lead to spearhead the strategy, implementation, and maintenance of our APM solutions. You will be instrumental in establishing standards, engineering robust monitoring infrastructure, and driving proactive performance management across our diverse application landscape, including cloud environments. Job Responsibilities : - Engineer comprehensive APM solutions and establish clear standards for APM and agent deployments across all environments. - Define best practices for APM configuration, optimizations, and tunings based on specific application and business requirements. - Drive the adoption and effective usage of APM tools within Cloud IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) and PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) models. - Devise a robust authentication and authorization model for our APM platform, aligning with the client's standard security framework. - Develop necessary customizations and automation scripts to enforce security policies and streamline user access management within the APM environment. - Architect a universally available and highly scalable APM infrastructure with appropriate built-in monitoring and alerting mechanisms to ensure the health and performance of the APM platform itself. - Proactively seek and deploy opportunities for automated deployments of APM agents and configurations to significantly reduce manual operational tasks and improve consistency. - Identify and implement opportunities for seamless integration of the APM platform with other existing monitoring tools within the client's portfolio, creating a unified observability landscape. - Thoroughly test and implement APM Monitoring Extensions that are appropriate for the clients diverse technology stack, including web servers (e.g., Apache, Tomcat) and messaging tiers (Kafka, RabbitMQ). - Expertly create, rigorously test, and implement APM Agents for comprehensive application monitoring of both Java and DotNet-based applications. - Provide leadership and guidance in performance troubleshooting efforts, leveraging APM data to identify root causes and recommend effective remediation strategies. - Implement and optimize End User Experience Monitoring solutions within the APM framework to gain critical insights into application responsiveness and user satisfaction. - Proficiently write and execute Ansible playbooks (Run/Code Ansible) for infrastructure automation and configuration management. - Develop and maintain Azure DevOps (AZDO) pipelines for automated deployment and management of APM components. - Possess strong working knowledge of various operating systems, including Linux, Windows, and AIX, and their impact on application performance and monitoring. - Utilize Git for effective version control of configurations, scripts, and other APM-related artifacts. - Leverage advanced Python coding skills for developing custom monitoring scripts, automation tasks, and data analysis. - Demonstrate strong communication skills to effectively articulate technical concepts and collaborate with cross-functional teams. - Understand and apply SAFe DevOps Scaled Agile Methodology principles within the context of APM implementation and management. - Possess knowledge and practical usage of containerization platforms like OpenShift (Kubernetes) and their impact on application monitoring. - Demonstrate strong knowledge and practical usage of various observability tools beyond traditional APM, such as Elastic (ELK Stack), Grafana, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry (OTEL). Education & Experience : - 7 years of total experience in IT. - At least 4 years of dedicated experience in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools, agent deployments, and implementation of APM Agents specifically for Java and DotNet-based applications. - Proven experience with Elastic Monitoring (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, Logstash). - Demonstrated experience in performance troubleshooting and root cause analysis using APM data. - Hands-on experience with End User Experience Monitoring (EUEM) tools and techniques. - Practical experience with Apache and Tomcat web server monitoring. - Proficient in writing and executing Ansible playbooks for automation. - Experience in developing and maintaining Azure DevOps (AZDO) pipelines. - Strong operating system knowledge (Linux, Windows, AIX). - Proficient in using Git for version control. - Advanced Python coding skills for automation and scripting. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills. - Familiarity with SAFe DevOps Scaled Agile Methodology. - Experience with OpenShift (Kubernetes) and containerized application monitoring. - Solid understanding and practical usage of Observability tools (Elastic, Grafana, Prometheus, OTEL). (ref:hirist.tech)

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Posted Date: 6/3/2025