Specialist, IT Platform Monitoring Development at NCBA Group

Job Purpose Statement

• The IT Platform Monitoring Specialist is responsible for the creation/development, deployment, and support of the monitoring systems that Loop DFS uses to monitor its core business applications, infrastructure & processes.
• The role holder will develop custom IT monitoring solutions where standard tools are not available, collaborating with the IT Platform Operations, Infrastructure & Business teams to define metrics that should be monitoring and reported.
• The IT Platform Monitoring Specialist also has responsibility for the creation

Ideal Job Specifications

•  A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field.
•  4 years’ experience with at least 3 years in planning, implementing, and evaluating processes, systems and/or initiatives
•  Experience in deployment, scripting & configuration of Observability & Monitoring tools – Zabbix ,Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace, Solar Winds, Logic Monitor, Nagios, Sentry etc.
•  Certification and experience implementing best practice frameworks e.g. ITIL v4 (preferred)  Cloud certified e.g., Azure, AWS or Huawei cloud.
•  Knowledge & experience working with tools such as Jenkins, ELK Stack, PostMan, SOAPUI, Git etc. will be an added advantage.
•  Hands on and practical knowledge in use of databases e.g. Oracle, MySQL, PostgresSQL
•  Broad technical acumen across multiple disciplines applications with a solid understanding of current technologies especially within the Fintech and Financial space.