Immediate need for a talented Service Now Discovery and Service Mapping Engineer . This is a 06+months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Atlanta, GA(Hybrid). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.
Job ID:24-50840
Pay Range: $60 - $70/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).
Key Responsibilities:
- Manages ServiceNow Discovery and ServiceNow Service Mapping.
- Ensures that horizontal discovery and service mapping products are highly available, reliable, and performant.
- Creates and maintains custom patterns, probes, and sensors to accommodate internal discovery requirements.
- Establishes and maintains discovery schedules.
- Monitors discovery and service mapping results, reconciling, and addressing any anomalies.
- Proactively plans capacity of ServiceNow MID servers and maintains and configures appropriately.
- Works with Service Owners and SMEs to ensure that accurate service maps are discovered and maintained.
- Participates in platform upgrade planning, testing, and validation.
- May participate in projects including preparing project plans, assigning tasks, monitoring statuses, coordinating efforts, validating team recommendations, integrating efforts into a comprehensive strategy and delivering results on time.
- Writes and/or reviews system specifications, including output requirements, flow charts and technical diagrams.
- Creating new service maps/patterns and building/validating that related event management capabilities are working to support an automated service health dashboard.
- Work closely with Technical Business Analyst and Technical Architects to create new service maps/patterns.
- Design and configure the ServiceNow Platform and ITOM applications based on leading practices to deliver solutions aligned to customer business outcomes.
- Code and Develop customized Patterns, Probes and Sensors for Discovery and Service Mapping.
- Sound knowledge in CMDB and ITOM .
- Operational Effectiveness: Responsible for completing ServiceNow Data Incidents, Defects, and Tasks according to established SLA’s. Perform daily health checks on CMDD, Discovery data including monitoring jobs, data loads and mid servers. Resolve data errors by implementing permeant corrective actions.
- Discovery Configuration: Act as an SME and configure/ fine-tune ServiceNow Discovery patterns and schedules to accurately identify and map IT infrastructure and services, minimizing gaps in the CMDB. Create/maintain new schedules and patterns.
- Integration and Development: Lead projects and provide status updates. Develop and integrate ServiceNow with external systems to enrich CMDB data, utilizing REST, SOAP APIs, and other web services. Focus on automating data import, de-customizations, and synchronization processes to ensure up-to-date information. Implement new service graph connectors and upgrade plug ins in a timely manner.
- Data Integrity and Quality: Implement and enforce strict data governance and quality standards within the CMDB, ensuring data integrity and reliability for operational and decision-making processes.
- Data Analysis and Reporting: Utilize ServiceNow reporting and analytics tools to create insightful data reports and dashboards, supporting IT and business stakeholders in making informed decisions.
- Continuous Improvements: Collaborates with Sprint planning, refinements, and execution. Recommend and implement enhancements to improve data quality, process efficiency, and performance.
- Collaboration: Works effectively in a cross-functional team environment, communicating with stakeholders across IT and business units. Act as a mentor to less experienced colleagues.
- Operational responsibilities encompass the day-to-day management and optimization of CMDB and Discovery operations to ensure seamless functionality.
Key Requirements and Technology Experience:
- Key Skills; CMDB, Discovery, Service Mapping, ITOM & ServiceNow MID servers .
- Comprehensive understanding and background in ServiceNow Service Mapping and how it should populate the CMDB
- Design, deploy, and manage ServiceNow Service Mapping solutions for mainframe, on-premise, and cloud resources
- Define, create, and manage the Service Mapping infrastructure, including schedules, credentials, and mid-Servers
- Develop, document, implement, and maintain Service Mapping governance processes, procedures, standards, and policies
- Define, create, and manage Service Mapping infrastructure, including patterns
- Advanced experience with SN service mapping (new/custom patterns) and impact assessment rules on more recent versions of the platform.
- Create and maintain Service Mapping-related documentation
- Comfortable and competent interacting with technical SMEs and stakeholders to acquire credentials, information, validation, and feedback.
- Knowledge and/or experience with Linux, Windows, and SQL commands necessary to build out applicable patterns.
- Familiarity with web application development to help you know how to traverse those layers in service map patterns.
- Define, create, and monitor Service Mapping health reports and dashboards to Identify, investigate and resolve Service Mapping issues in a timely manner
- Expert understanding on import sets and transform maps, working with external data sources, ServiceNow data mapping
- Knowledge of common supplemental CMDB integrations like SCCM
- Knowledge of the IRE, i.e., identification, classification rules in CMDB
- Knowledge over event and alert rule to articulate the ServiceNow CMDB Classes for Asset and Configuration, their relationships and dependencies
- Required Hands on experience with ServiceNow ITOM implementations
- Required Knowledge of ServiceNow CMDB Architecture & CSDM
- Experience with Public and private cloud solutions such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and their corresponding APIs.
- Ability to consult on system credential requirements; troubleshoot permissions and network connectivity.
- Familiarity with industry-standard communication protocols such as HTTP, TCP, SNMP, SOAP, and REST.
- ServiceNow Data (CMDB & Discovery) Administrator/Developer Role: Pivotal role in overseeing the Configuration Management Database (CMDB) and Discovery processes within the ServiceNow platform.
- This position is integral to the Application Development & Maintenance team, with a primary focus on operational tasks alongside data integrity, management practices, and system enhancements.
- 4-8 years of experience with at least 4 years hands on experience in CMDB and Discovery
- BA, BS, or equivalent experience in related field. Advance Degree may be required.
- Proficient in SDLC and Agile methodology with excellent oral and written communication skills and organizational skills.
- Technical Proficiency: Advanced understanding of ServiceNow CMDB and Discovery, data modeling, and ITSM processes, Cloud (GCP, AWS, Azure).Experience with scripting and automation in ServiceNow (JavaScript, Unix shell scripting, Windows scripting, PowerShell, Perl, Python).
- Integration Skills: Proficient with service graph connectors & various data sources. Experience in web technologies and APIs (REST, SOAP).
- Analytical Skills: Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to generate actionable insights from data.
- ServiceNow Fundamentals .
- ServiceNow Discovery Fundamentals .
- ServiceNow Certified Implementation Specialist – Discovery .
- Configuration Management Database (CMDB) Fundamentals .
- ITILv4 Foundations .
- Cloud GCP/AWS certification preferred.
Our client is a leading Railroads Industry, and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.
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