IBM Netcool Omnibus Expert

IBM Netcool Omnibus Expert

Major responsibilities of the position are listed below. To perform the job successfully, an individual must be able to execute each essential duty satisfactorily. Other duties, assignments and specific projects may be assigned at the discretion of management.

- Responsible for managing the IBM Tivoli Netcool OMNIbus environment enterprise-wide.
- Day to day management of the IBM Tivoli Netcool OMNIbus product to ensure it is function as designed. This includes working with various group designated champions to ensure we maintain 100% visibility of our production environment at all times.
- Stay current with all industry trends/best practices, as well as new product releases so that we can maintain a proactive 3-year systems management roadmap
- Ensure proper documentation is maintained for all aspects of the Tivoli product suite.
- Ensure all third-party monitoring solutions that are integrated into Tivoli are properly documented and function as designed.
- Continually work towards optimizing our automated event correlation capabilities.
- Ensure ITIL compliant framework is maintained with every aspect of our system management platform.
- Other Job duties as assigned.

PROFILE:

At least 3 years of hands-on experience in managing for high availability of System Management Tools including:

- IBM Tivoli Netcool OMNIbus (must have)
- IBM Tivoli Netcool Impact (nice to have)
- IBM Tivoli Monitoring (nice to have)

Candidate needs to have:

- Fair UNIX Shell and/or PERL Scripting skills.
- Experience building custom automations with OMNIBUS
- Experience building custom probe rules
- Experience building custom Dashboards and Tools using OMNBUS and working with rules
- Nice to have experience building custom policies with Impact
- Ability to translate user requirements to technical solutions
- Comfortable in various platforms like Linux, and Windows
- Experience in building custom reports with TCR (Tivoli common reporting based on Cognos reporting)
- Ability to apply knowledge of tools to create solutions which are maintainable, follow enterprise standards.
- Ability to utilize advanced systems, Scripting and developer skills to develop methodologies to implement, integrate, and maintain new and emerging enterprise-wide systems software technology components.
- ITIL framework certification or experience is a plus