Infrastructure Engineer Staff - Netcool (NOI) SME
American Electric Power · Austin, TX, US
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About the Role
The Senior Enterprise Monitoring & Event Management Engineer is responsible for the design, administration, integration, automation, and support of AEP's enterprise monitoring and event management platforms. This role serves as a technical subject matter expert for IBM Netcool Operations Insight (NOI), event correlation, alert automation, monitoring integrations, ServiceNow event management, and enterprise observability solutions. The engineer will design and maintain monitoring solutions across infrastructure, applications, databases, cloud environments, and business-critical systems while driving automation, event reduction, incident response improvements, and platform modernization initiatives. The position requires deep technical expertise across Linux administration, monitoring platforms, scripting, event management, system integrations, and production support in a large enterprise environment.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain enterprise event management and correlation solutions.
- Build, maintain, and optimize Netcool probes, gateways, automation policies, rules, and event processing workflows.
- Develop alarm correlation, suppression, enrichment, normalization, deduplication, and root cause analytics.
- Design enterprise event reduction and noise suppression strategies.
- Identify opportunities to automate operational monitoring processes.
- Administer and support IBM Netcool Operations Insight (NOI) production and non-production environments.
- Maintain platform health, availability, performance, and resiliency.
- Perform platform upgrades, patching, capacity planning, and lifecycle management.
- Troubleshoot platform issues involving event processing, integrations, databases, and infrastructure components.
- Provide Level 3 support for enterprise monitoring and event management solutions.
- Design monitoring solutions across servers, databases, network devices, cloud platforms, applications, middleware, and infrastructure services.
- Develop monitoring standards, onboarding processes, and alerting strategies for business-critical systems.
- Partner with application teams to create meaningful actionable alerts and reduce alert fatigue.
- Improve service visibility and operational readiness across enterprise environments.
- Design and support integrations between monitoring platforms and ServiceNow.
- Implement automated incident creation, event enrichment, routing, escalation, and ticket lifecycle management.
- Support Event Management and AIOps initiatives within ServiceNow.
- Integrate monitoring tools with CMDB and service mapping solutions.
- Develop and support integrations using REST, SOAP, SNMP, Syslog, webhooks, messaging technologies, and custom APIs.
- Integrate monitoring platforms with infrastructure, application, database, and cloud environments.
- Support enterprise onboarding activities for new monitoring sources and technologies.
- Develop event-driven automation and remediation workflows.
- Create self-healing and closed-loop operational automation capabilities.
- Implement monitoring automation using scripts, workflows, runbooks, and orchestration platforms.
- Drive monitoring modernization initiatives and platform improvements.
- Participate in on-call rotation and critical incident response activities.
- Support enterprise monitoring platforms that provide critical operational visibility to IT and business stakeholders.
- Analyze monitoring failures and implement corrective actions.
- Serve as a technical escalation point for monitoring and integration-related incidents.
- Support monitoring solutions that are subject to SOX, audit, and compliance requirements.
- Maintain documentation, runbooks, operational procedures, and technical standards.
- Participate in audit activities and evidence collection when required.
- Ensure monitoring solutions align with cybersecurity and operational standards.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- 5+ years administering enterprise monitoring, event management, observability, or infrastructure management platforms.
- Experience with IBM Netcool/NOI, ServiceNow Event Management, Dynatrace, Splunk, or equivalent enterprise monitoring solutions.
- Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.
- Strong experience with scripting and automation.
- Experience with enterprise incident management processes.
- Experience integrating enterprise applications using APIs, SNMP, Syslog, or messaging technologies.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related technical field is required.
- 10 years of relevant work experience is required.
- An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
Skills
- IBM Netcool Operations Insight (NOI)
- IBM Netcool OMNIbus
- ServiceNow Event Management (EM)
- Dynatrace
- Splunk
- SolarWinds
- OpenNMS
- Enterprise monitoring and observability solutions
- Linux Administration (RHEL preferred)
- Unix/Linux troubleshooting
- Process and service management
- Performance tuning and diagnostics
- Linux interprocess communication (IPC)
- Python
- Shell Scripting
- Perl
- JavaScript
- SQL
- JSON
- XML/XSLT
- REST APIs
- SOAP APIs
- Webhooks
- SNMP
- Syslog
- SMTP
- Kafka
- Message bus technologies
- Oracle
- SQL Server
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- MongoDB
- AWS monitoring integrations
- Azure monitoring integrations
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Virtualization technologies (VMware)
- Ansible
- NOI Runbooks
- ServiceNow Flows
- Event-driven automation
- Custom workflow development
- AIOps platforms
- Event correlation
- Root cause analysis
- Anomaly detection
- Log analytics
- Predictive alerting
- Machine learning-enabled monitoring
- Utility industry monitoring experience
- SOX-regulated application support
- ITIL framework knowledge
- ServiceNow ITOM
- CMDB integrations
- Event Management architecture
- Infrastructure monitoring design
- Enterprise observability practices
- Network monitoring and management systems
- Strong customer service and stakeholder management skills
- Exceptional troubleshooting and analytical abilities
- Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences
- Ability to prioritize multiple projects and operational demands
- Self-directed and highly accountable
- Strong collaboration skills across infrastructure, security, cloud, and application teams
- Ability to lead technical initiatives and mentor junior engineers
- Strategic mindset with the ability to align monitoring capabilities with business outcomes
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related technical field
Salary/Compensations
- $116,255.00 - $151,132.50
About the Company
- At AEP, we’re more than just an energy company — we’re a team of dedicated professionals committed to delivering safe, reliable, and innovative energy solutions. Guided by our mission to put the customer first, we strive to exceed expectations by listening, responding, and continuously improving the way we serve our communities. If you're passionate about making a meaningful impact and being part of a forward-thinking organization, this is the company for you!
Equal Opportunity
- It is hereby reaffirmed that it is the policy of American Electric Power (AEP) to provide Equal Employment Opportunity in all respects of the employer-employee relationship including recruiting, hiring, upgrading and promotion, conditions and privileges of employment, company sponsored training programs, educational assistance, social and recreational programs, compensation, benefits, transfers, discipline, layoffs and termination of employment to all employees and applicants without discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age, veteran or military status, disability, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. When required by law, we might record certain information or applicants for employment may be invited to voluntarily disclose protected characteristics.