Manager of Monitoring Operations

Job Description: Manager Monitoring Operations

Role Summary

The Manager Monitoring Operations will lead and manage the enterprise monitoring operations team responsible for the availability performance and reliability of IT infrastructure and applications. This role will oversee the day-to-day operations of BMC Helix On-Premises Monitoring tool deployed on RedHat OCP (OpenShift Container Platform) Network and Device monitoring using ParkPlace Entuity along with OS Monitoring using Prometheus-Grafana ensuring a high service quality operational excellence and continuous improvement.

The role requires strong people management skills deep technical expertise in systems monitoring platforms and experience operating monitoring solutions in containerized environments.

Key Responsibilities

Lead mentor and manage a team of monitoring engineers/analysts defining goals KPIs shift coverage and on-call rotations.

Drive skill development through performance reviews training initiatives and continuous learning plans.

Act as escalation point for major monitoring incidents and outages guiding quick workarounds to prevent monitoring gaps and loss of metrics.

Ensure operational excellence aligned with ITIL practices (Incident Problem Change) and adherence to security compliance and operational standards.

Manage upgrades patches capacity planning and health checks across the monitoring estate to maintain high availability and performance.

Oversee the Server (Windows/Linux/AIX) Network Database & Synthetic URL Monitoring for the Enterprise and for the Global clients private cloud.

Collaborate with Container Platform Core Infrastructure and Network teams on platform stability scaling resilience and resource allocation.

Optimize alert quality reduce alert fatigue standardize dashboards/alerting frameworks and deliver actionable insights.

Maintain SOPs runbooks and operational documentation; provide regular reports on platform health incidents and SLA compliance.

Serve as the primary stakeholder contact for all monitoring services.

Conduct annual disaster-recovery (DR) tests for the monitoring estate to validate resilience recovery procedures and business continuity readiness.

Required Experience & Qualifications

Experience

10 years of overall IT industry experience including 5 years in monitoring operations in medium-to-large organizations.

Hands-on operational expertise with at least two of the following monitoring platforms/tools:

o BMC Helix Monitoring (SaaS or On-Prem)

o RedHat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) or Kubernetes Cluster Management

o Prometheus Exporters OTEL Collectors and Grafana

o ParkPlace Entuity Network and Hardware Monitoring

Proven experience in monitoring architecture design capacity planning performance tuning and integration with ITSM tools for automated ticketing workflows.

Strong knowledge of ITIL processes and operational best practices.

Leadership & Soft Skills

Strong people-management and leadership capabilities

Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills

Ability to handle high-pressure situations and lead incident response

Strategic mindset with a focus on operational maturity and optimization

Education & Certifications

Bachelors degree in computer science Information Technology or equivalent

Relevant certifications (preferred not mandatory):

o RedHat OpenShift / Kubernetes

o BMC Helix

o Foundation certifications in ITIL and/or AI

Nice-to-Have

Exposure to hybrid or multi-cloud environments

Experience in Automation Scripting APIs and AI-driven service improvements

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) experience

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