IT Infrastructure - Data Centre Operations - West

Role overview

IT Infrastructure - Data Centre Operations - West at Kotak Securities

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain infrastructure monitoring solutions using various tools (e.g., Datadog, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix, Solarwinds, Motadata etc.)
• Conduct regular server capacity planning and utilisation reviews , ensuring scalability and performance.

Required qualifications

• Proven experience in infrastructure monitoring within a large-scale IT environment.
• Proficiency in various monitoring, observability & log analytics tools (e.g., Datadog, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, Solarwinds, Motadata, Kibana, Elastic Search etc.).
• Experience with infrastructure components (servers, networks, databases, applications).
• Familiarity with NSE LAMA framework.
• Strong understanding of server architecture, virtualisation, and cloud infrastructure.
• Experience in capacity planning , performance tuning, and availability management.
• Familiarity with ITIL practices, especially around incident and availability management.
• Excellent analytical, documentation, and communication skills.
• Experience with automation and scripting for monitoring tasks

Employment details

• Location: Kotak Infiniti [Mumbai] [Maharashtra] [India]

Application details

• Collaborate with IT operations and application teams to define and refine monitoring thresholds and escalation protocols.
• Understand and apply observability principles (logs, metrics, traces) to gain insights into system behaviour.

Additional role details

• Infrastructure Monitoring:
• Collect, analyse, and visualize data from infrastructure components (servers, networks, databases, applications, etc.).
• Develop and maintain monitoring dashboards and alerts for proactive identification of issues.
• Analyse trends and historical data to forecast infrastructure needs and prevent potential outages.
• Document monitoring configurations, SOPs, and incident response procedures.
• Support audit and compliance requirements by maintaining accurate monitoring logs and reports.
• Observability:
• Implement and maintain observability tools and pipelines.
• Use observability data to improve system reliability, performance, and scalability.
• Expertise in Log analytics tools like Kibana & Elastic search etc.