Customer Engineer – Infrastructure – Azure Monitor (m/f/d)

Customer Engineer – Infrastructure – Azure Monitor (m/f/d)

We’re looking for a seasoned Azure Monitor specialist to work directly with customers as a consultant and technical advisor.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, review and assess the health of the infrastructure
• Upgrade and maintain deployments
• Troubleshoot issues with infrastructure and agents
• Tune and optimize for performance
• Assist with reporting and visualizations
• Implement new management packs
• Assist in the development of custom management packs
• Provide training in all areas of Azure Monitor to ensure customer goals are met

Ideal Candidate Experience

• 15+ years working as a depth expert and technology owner or consultant for Azure Monitor
• Ability to present to multiple levels of customer leadership
• Ability to act as a consultant and architect for multiple customers

Broad Knowledge Across Multiple Monitoring Scenarios

• Windows and Linux Operating Systems
• Azure Monitor
• KQL (Kusto Query Language) advanced level
• URL, Network monitoring
• Connecting to ITSM systems
• Dashboards, Reporting, and Visualizations
• PowerShell scripting

Deep level knowledge in at least 3 of the above categories.

Technical Skills Requirements: Azure Monitor

• Broad knowledge of all the below areas, with deep understanding of at least four:

• Azure Monitor architecture (metrics vs logs, data flow, ingestion, retention)
• Log Analytics workspaces
• Azure Monitor Metrics
• Diagnostic settings
• Resource‑level versus platform‑level telemetry

Ability to explain when to use Azure Monitor versus Azure Data Explorer, Grafana or third‑party tools.

Advanced KQL & Query Development

• Write complex KQL queries across multiple tables
• Use operators such as parse, extend, mv-expand, joins, time series, summarise patterns, performance‑optimized queries
• Build reusable queries, functions, summary rules for cost & performance optimisation
• Debug slow or expensive queries

Tools

• Visual Studio, Silect, MPViewer, Alert Update Connector, PowerShell

Related Skills

• System Center Orchestrator
• System Center Data Protection Manager
• System Center Virtual Machine Manager
• System Center Service Manager