Monitoring and Control Solution Design Lead - 1 year Full time

For our key client in Zurich, Switzerland, we are looking for a Design Lead to lead the solution design work for a sustainable monitoring and control solution.

Customer background

The customer has an IT environment consisting of a diverse set of IT applications including communication systems used for operational purposes. The customer has an IT application in place, which monitors the IT environment and also offers limited control function allowing to react in case of certain events. In future new infrastructure services (virtualization technology and an integration platform or ESB) will increasingly be used; the infrastructure is operated by an external service provider who will therefore also have monitor and control capabilities covering the infrastructure. The customer intends to introduce business activity monitoring capabilities based on the nJAMS product. IT applications will take advantage of the new infrastructure services now available and be progressively migrated according to the schedule of Strategic programme delivery roadmap or their application life cycle plan. The changed situation (with a new infrastructure and an external service provider) makes a comprehensive assessment of the future needs and design of a suitable solution necessary.

Required key skills:

- Good knowledge of monitoring concepts on all layers from infrastructure to business activity
- Good knowledge of maintenance and operations of IT infrastructure
- Experience with relevant TIBCO products: HAWK, SNMP Plugin, TEA
- Experience with HP OM and vCenter
- Nice to have: Knowledge of MS Office and MS Visio, virtualization platforms such as VMware, Business Activity Monitoring tools such as nJAMS, other TIBCO products such as EMS and BusinessWorks
- Fluent English is a must; German or French are nice to have

Tasks:

- Define the detailed approach to conduct the work in collaboration with the project manager

Identify any additional experts needed

- Discuss with various stakeholders to collect and understand the monitoring & control requirements
- Review the proposed solution (from the supplier) regarding his scope of monitoring & control
- Define and assess the solution options based on the requirements and the best usage of the existing toolchain: vCenter, HP Operations Manager, TIBCO HAWK, etc. when considering the plan to introduce nJAMS
- Perform a technical SWOT analysis on the proposed alternatives mentioned above
- Make a recommendation and prepare the decision-making process together with the project manager
- Provide the detailed solution design to realize the recommendation

Project overview:

- Start: ASAP
- Duration: 12 months
- Workload: 5 days a week on-site
- Location: Zurich, Switzerland (plus travelling to Geneva, Switzerland)
- Languages: English (plus German and French)

Interview slots with our client can be arranged on short notice.

If you are interested in finding out more or can recommend a colleague please don't hesitate to get in touch.