IT Lead Specialist - Enterprise Infrastructure Intelligence / ThousandEyes

Parkland Corporation

$100K — $120K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years experience with Cisco ThousandEyes or similar platforms.
  • Deep understanding of TCP/IP protocols, DNS, BGP, WAN, and SaaS.
  • Hands-on experience deploying and managing agents across various environments.
  • Proven skills in designing and analyzing synthetic tests for service paths.
  • Strong communication skills for technical reporting to all levels.

Responsibilities

  • Deploy and manage various agents for end-to-end monitoring.
  • Design and implement tests for SaaS applications and connectivity.
  • Map and document critical business-service paths and dependencies.
  • Establish and maintain standards for test frequency and coverage.
  • Identify and analyze risks from various service providers and last-mile technology.
  • Cross-reference monitoring findings with infrastructure events to diagnose issues.
  • Create detailed dashboards and reports on digital service performance.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with cutting-edge digital experience monitoring technology.
  • Collaborative and innovative work environment.
  • Engagement in strategic projects that impact the organization.
  • Exposure to a mix of network technologies and cloud services.
  • Professional development supported by cross-team collaboration.
Full Job Description
Description

The Opportunity:

Serve as the ThousandEyes specialist responsible for governing end-to-end visibility across user, branch, data center, WAN, internet, cloud, and SaaS service paths.

Responsibilities:
  • Deploy and manage enterprise, endpoint, cloud, and other applicable agents.
  • Design tests for SaaS applications, internet paths, DNS, routing, HTTP, network connectivity, and digital experience.
  • Map critical business-service paths and external dependencies.
  • Establish test frequency, retention, alerting, coverage, and naming standards.
  • Identify ISP, internet, cloud-provider, SaaS, DNS, BGP, WAN, and last-mile risks.
  • Correlate ThousandEyes findings with SolarWinds infrastructure events.
  • Distinguish internal failures from external-provider and internet-service degradation.
  • Build executive and operational views of digital-service availability and user experience.
  • Integrate ThousandEyes with ServiceNow, collaboration platforms, SolarWinds, and the EII analytical plane.
  • Support incident investigations with evidence of when, where, and how a service path degraded.
  • Baseline critical applications, business locations, cloud services, and acquired-company environments.
  • Optimize agent placement, test coverage, licensing, and data quality.

Principal outputs:

  • Digital-experience dashboards
  • Internet and SaaS dependency views
  • End-to-end service-path analysis
  • Location and user-experience baselines
  • External-provider performance evidence
  • Coverage and data-quality scorecards
  • M&A connectivity and digital-experience assessments

Requirements:
  • Demonstrated experience administering Cisco ThousandEyes or a comparable digital experience monitoring platform.
  • Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, BGP, routing, WAN, SD-WAN, HTTP, SaaS, cloud, and internet service delivery.
  • Experience deploying and managing enterprise, endpoint, and cloud agents and designing synthetic tests.
  • Ability to analyze end-to-end service paths, distinguish internal from external degradation, and support incident investigations.
  • Ability to communicate technical findings through operational and executive-level reporting.

Preferred Skills:

  • Cisco ThousandEyes Enterprise Agents, Endpoint Agents, Cloud Agents, Internet Insights, and alerting.
  • Cisco networking, SD-WAN, network path analysis, synthetic monitoring, and digital experience monitoring.
  • ServiceNow, CMDB, SolarWinds, APIs, collaboration-platform integrations, and automation.
  • Azure, AWS, SaaS dependency mapping, AIOps concepts, and M&A environment baselining.

Humble. Hungry. Smart. Does this sound like you?

Do others describe you as being a down-to-earth achiever? Someone who thinks outside the box and always strives to do more than what is required? Someone who sees the bigger picture? You sound brilliant to work with!

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