Monitoring Solutions Engineer, Senior

At Freddie Mac, you will do important work to build a better housing finance system and you'll be part of a team helping to make homeownership and rental housing more accessible and affordable across the nation.

Employees, contingent workers and visitors are no longer required to show proof of vaccination to be on-site. Effective January 2023, Freddie Mac's hybrid work arrangement is 3 days in the office (specifically Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday).

Position Overview:

The Enterprise Logging & Monitoring (ELM) team is looking for a full stack development and automation engineer! The role of the engineer would be to automate use cases for the team providing enterprise-wide monitoring, logging, performance, and analytics solutions using a range of COTS as well as custom and open-source tools and cloud environment. We expect this role to be able to balance their focus on transformation while optimizing our current tool and automation platforms. You would assist with and be responsible for automation of the deployment and configuration of these tools in VMC and Cloud Native platforms. Such automation would include, but not be limited to, using Kubernetes for orchestration, Elasticsearch/Kibana for logging, building self-service tools and devising monitoring solutions to ensure the availability of the platforms.

Our Impact:

Our team provided Enterprise Logging & Monitoring services with the help of various COTS products that we administer, maintain, and operate.

• We engineer automation and orchestration designs to help provide seam-less and highly available solutions.
• We collaborate with server, network, database, storage administrators and cloud teams to understand their requirements and deliver monitoring solutions and advance our technical capabilities within ELK and other monitoring tools.
• We create and maintain a highly resilient, scalable, and automated platform for tools used logging and monitoring.
• We align with the Enterprise Logging & Monitoring strategy and play a crucial role in delivering key achievements.

Your Impact:

• Be an integral part of the ELM Engineering team and own the development, planning and execution of multiple automation and application development projects. The automation team within the ELM develops automation use cases for the engineering and administration of the tools. Some of the use cases include: Reconciliation of the data with CMDB, automated deployment and upgrades, automated password changes, automated configuration changes and deployment, integration within the tools using APIs.
• Automate use cases for customers to make the monitoring services more self-serviced
• Create and maintain a web-app for providing monitoring self-service options for customers and partners of the logging and monitoring services
• Identify and drive service enhancement opportunities through automation and development
• Embrace and foster DevOps and agile best practices for delivering solutions

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Information Systems or equivalent field
• At least 5+ years for experience working in a similar role delivering automation solutions using Java, Python or other languages
• Strong experience on developing and building DevOps workflows for a Tools team
• At least 2 years RESTful API's, Microservices and System to System API development experience
• AWS, CI/CD, Jenkins, DevOps Process (GI, Jenkins, Terraform, Cloud Formation, AWS resources)
• Proven experience in emerging and innovative technologies such as: Spark, Scala/Java/Python, Python, REST, JSON, NoSQL databases, relational databases, Jenkins/Maven, Ansible and AWS/Cloud Infrastructure to name a few
• Strong experience with monitoring on AWS cloud with CloudWatch, cloud trail, Kinesis/Kinesis Firehose and other AWS services such as EC2, S3, ELB, IAM, VPC
• Understanding of container platforms such as Docker, Kubernetes and ways to monitor them on AWS using Prometheus, Grafana and other open-source tools such as ELK
• Strong experience of Linux with Scripting knowledge
• Experience with Dynatrace Monitoring Tool would be a plus
• Migration experience from Legacy tools to ELK would be a plus

Keys to Success in this Role:

• Works under minimal direction to deliver solutions
• Motivated to learn new technologies and identify process improvements and efficiencies
• Good communication and phenomenal teammate; Strong written and oral communications skills
• Sense of urgency and able to apply risk-based approach to prioritize work
• Proactive in nature with delivering optimal solutions a primary goal
• Innovative in providing solutions, likes to take on challenges with calculated risk
• Provide top notch customer service in delivering technical solutions

Current Freddie Mac employees please apply through the internal career site.

Today, Freddie Mac makes home possible for one in four home borrowers and is one of the largest sources of financing for multifamily housing. Join our smart, creative and dedicated team and you'll do important work for the housing finance system and make a difference in the lives of others.