IBM Instana Administrator

City: Kochi

State/Province: Kerala

Posting Start Date: 3/6/26

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Job Description:

Job Description

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced IBM Instana Administrator to manage, configure, and support enterprise-scale application performance monitoring (APM) and infrastructure observability platforms. The role involves end-to-end ownership of Instana environments, including agent deployment, dashboard creation, alerting, performance tuning, and integration with middleware, cloud, and container platforms.

The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience with IBM Instana, Linux (RHEL), Kubernetes/OpenShift, and enterprise middleware monitoring, supporting 24×7 mission-critical production environments.

Key Responsibilities

Experience:7 Years

Instana Platform Administration

• Install, configure, and maintain IBM Instana (Self-Hosted or SaaS) environments.
• Manage Instana agents across:

• • Linux (RHEL)
  • RHEL operating system (RHCOS)
  • Virtual Machines
  • Kubernetes / OpenShift clusters

• Perform Instana upgrades, patches, and health checks.
• Monitor Instana backend components (datastore, ingestion, UI, collectors).

Monitoring & Observability

• Configure monitoring for:

• • Applications (Java, JVM, Node.js, .NET, etc.)
  • Infrastructure (CPU, memory, disk, network)
  • Kubernetes / OpenShift workloads
  • Middleware platforms

• Create custom dashboards for:

• • Application health
  • Infrastructure utilization
  • Queue depth, JVM memory, response time
  • Business-critical KPIs

• Implement Smart Alerts, thresholds, and incident triggers.

Alerting & Incident Support

• Integrate Instana with BHC Helix BHOM and BMC Helix ITSM, ServiceNow, email, Teams, PagerDuty, or other alerting tools.
• Support L2/L3 production incidents using Instana traces, events, and metrics.
• Perform root cause analysis (RCA) using Instana's AI-driven insights.
• Participate in on-call and 24×7 support rotations.

Required Skills & Qualifications

Mandatory Skills

• 7 years of experience in monitoring / observability tools.
• Strong hands-on experience with IBM Instana administration.
• Experience deploying and managing Instana agents.
• Strong Linux (RHEL) administration skills.
• Solid understanding of:

• • Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
  • Distributed tracing
  • Metrics and alerting concepts

• Experience in incident management and RCA.

Platform & Technology Skills

• Kubernetes / OpenShift monitoring using Instana.
• JVM and application performance analysis.
• Network, CPU, memory, disk monitoring.
• Integration with ITSM tools (ServiceNow preferred).

Good-to-Have Skills

• Monitoring of IBM middleware:

• • IBM MQ
  • IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE)
  • IBM WebSphere (WAS)
  • IBM DataPower

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS / Azure / GCP).
• Exposure to DevOps / SRE practices.
• Experience with Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace, AppDynamics.

• Scripting knowledge: Shell / Python.

Mandatory Skills: IBM Instana .

Experience: 5-8 Years .

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Client-provided location(s): Cochin, India

Job ID: Wipro-142429

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2026-03-13T18:49:52