Monitoring Engineer

At Gap Inc. IT, we value innovation and thrive on the opportunity to fundamentally change the shopping experience for our customers through leading technology.  We look for fresh perspectives and experienced professionals who then have the opportunity to work with thought leaders across the business and IT.

Our team members are not just innovators in the technology space; our success is measured by our ability to drive operational and top-line improvement for our brands.  If you thrive in a solutions oriented environment, then consider joining our team!

The purpose of this role is to implement and maintain an end-to-end application and infrastructure monitoring framework.

• Support and enhance existing monitoring infrastructure (Nagios, Cacti)


• Evaluate new tools and technology to provide application and infrastructure monitoring.


• Build log mining tools


• Responsible for building and maintaining support tools integrations (monitoring, ticketing, dashboard)


• Develop components of enterprise monitoring


• Develop cross-platform monitoring architecture for virtualized compute and storage infrastructure and develop rules, alerts, and notifications


• Develop components of application monitoring and develop rules, alerts, and notifications.

Collaborate with engineering teams on monitoring requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
• 3+ years of experience in enterprise environment is required with several Unix platforms (RHEL, AIX, Solaris) and Wintel.
• 3+ years of experience with working with monitoring solutions (Nagios, Zenoss, Cacti)
• 3+ years experience developing tools and scripts in Shell scripts, Python, or Perl.
• Strong understanding of monitoring interfaces SNMP, SSH
• Strong TCP/IP and SNMP skills are required
• Experience with configuration management systems – Chef, Puppet, CFEngine
• Knowledge of Virtualization, Cisco platform and VMware is a plus
• Experience with MySql or equivalent is a plus
• Great verbal and written communication skills