Monitoring Engineer

TEKsystems•Sioux Falls, SD

2d•$95,000 - $110,000•Onsite

About The Position

Our client, a leader in the healthcare industry, is seeking a Senior Monitoring Engineer to support and enhance enterprise monitoring, observability, and alerting solutions across a large and complex technology environment. This role will partner closely with infrastructure, networking, application, and engineering teams to design and implement monitoring strategies that improve system reliability, reduce downtime, and strengthen incident response capabilities. The ideal candidate will bring deep experience with enterprise monitoring platforms, a proactive approach to problem-solving, and a passion for building scalable observability solutions that support mission-critical operations. As a Senior Monitoring Engineer, you will play a key role in improving visibility across critical healthcare systems, applications, infrastructure, databases, and networks. This position will focus on enhancing enterprise monitoring capabilities, implementing modern observability tools, and developing proactive solutions that help identify issues before they impact patient care or business operations. You will help drive monitoring standardization efforts, support platform modernization initiatives, and collaborate with teams across the organization to ensure monitoring and alerting are built into all new technology deployments.

Requirements

Experience designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise monitoring and observability solutions
Strong knowledge of network, infrastructure, application, and systems monitoring
Experience deploying new monitoring tools and improving enterprise-wide observability practices
Experience with log aggregation or SIEM platforms such as Splunk, LogRhythm, Graylog, ELK, or similar solutions
Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills
Experience working with incident management and operational response processes
Ability to communicate effectively with technical teams and leadership stakeholders
Experience creating dashboards, reporting solutions, and performance metrics
Strong documentation and process improvement experience

Nice To Haves

Experience with LogicMonitor, ThousandEyes, BigPanda, ServiceNow AIOps, or similar observability platforms
Experience supporting tools such as Dynatrace, PagerDuty, VictorOps, SolarWinds, Nagios, Zabbix, Datadog, AppDynamics, or New Relic
Scripting and automation experience
Experience developing self-healing capabilities and operational automation
Healthcare industry experience is a plus

Responsibilities

Design, deploy, and support enterprise monitoring and alerting solutions across infrastructure, applications, databases, and networks
Develop monitoring strategies that improve system availability, reliability, and performance
Implement and maintain dashboards that provide operational visibility across multiple platforms and teams
Ensure accurate collection, retention, and reporting of metrics for alerting, analysis, and trend reporting
Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate monitoring requirements into new deployments and technology initiatives
Build and maintain reporting solutions that provide insights into operational health and incident trends
Support incident management processes by ensuring monitoring and alerting systems align with response protocols
Identify recurring issues and develop proactive solutions to improve system stability
Maintain platform health through upgrades, patching, troubleshooting, and vendor engagement when necessary
Assist in developing automation, scripting, and self-healing capabilities within the environment
Mentor and provide technical guidance to fellow engineers and team members