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.