Cybersecurity Asset Management and Observability Manager

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• Own and modernize the enterprise monitoring and observability program shifting from traditional up/down alerting to predictive detection automation and intelligent event correlation across our toolchain (Datadog BigPanda SolarWinds Zabbix Grafana and others).
• Manages specific IT systems or sets of systems for availability and performance; reports anomalies through predefined process. Participates in evaluation/recommendation of patches point releases major upgrades and new systems purchases.
• Manages execution of support services to internal customers for monitoring/observability tooling. Adheres to service management processes to meet SLAs and customer satisfaction. Completes root cause analysis of outages and incident trends (often working with managed services partners); recommends and implements preventative and predictive actions.
• Builds automated remediation and self-healing workflows for well-understood failure patterns; integrates monitoring data with ITSM/orchestration platforms to automate ticketing escalation and response.
• Partners with the cybersecurity/SOC team to surface observability data as contextual signal for security investigations helping correlate operational anomalies with security events.
• Negotiates with internal/external stakeholders to design solutions addressing complex cross-functional monitoring needs. Identifies best-known-methods for integrated solution design and standards; keeps abreast of market technologies and performs technology evaluations as required. Works with multiple vendors for quality and competitiveness.
• Manages personnel and/or contract developers performing configuration coding testing (unit integration performance acceptance) and QA related to monitoring tooling and automation following established processes and guidelines.
• Plans and manages projects to ensure effective efficient execution within established scope timeline budget and quality guardrails.
• Defines and implements team goals and objectives in line with organizational strategy. Attracts develops and retains personnel; continuously improves team capabilities.
• Works with business leaders to develop IT enablement strategy for the monitoring/observability portfolio and establishes metrics to measure and actively manage its value.

• 610 years in IT operations infrastructure engineering or SRE with hands-on experience across several of: Datadog BigPanda SolarWinds Zabbix Grafana (or equivalents such as Prometheus Splunk AppDynamics).
• Demonstrated experience maturing an observability program end-to-end architecture predictive/anomaly-based alerting noise reduction not just operating existing dashboards.
• Strong scripting/automation ability (Python PowerShell or similar) and experience integrating monitoring platforms via APIs.
• Experience supporting a large-scale global hybrid (cloud on-prem) enterprise environment.
• People management experience or strong readiness for a first-line management role with technical credibility to lead senior engineers.

Demonstrates in-depth understanding of concepts theories and principles in own job family and basic knowledge of related job families.

Applies understanding of the industry and how own area contributes to achievement of objectives.

Manages a generally homogeneous team; adapts plans and priorities to meet service and/or operational challenges.

Identifies and resolves technical operational and organizational problems.

Impacts the level of service and the teams ability to meet quality volume and timeliness objectives. Guided by policies and resource requirements within business unit department or sub-function.

Guides influences and persuades others internally in related areas or externally.

Position requires understanding of Applied Materials global Standards of Business Conduct and compliance with these standards at all times. This includes demonstrating the highest level of ethical conduct reflecting Applied Materials core values.

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Applied Materials is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color national origin citizenship ancestry religion creed sex sexual orientation gender identity age disability veteran or military status or any other basis prohibited by law.