Nuventure Connect is looking for an experienced Zabbix Architect / Subject Matter Expert (SME) with strong hands-on expertise in enterprise-scale Zabbix environments.

About the Role
We are looking for a Zabbix SME to lead a major monitoring modernization initiative involving two enterprise Zabbix environments currently running on versions 4.x and 7.x. The project includes upgrading both environments to Zabbix 7.4, optimizing approximately 150 Zabbix templates, and consolidating the environments into a unified deployment. The existing production environment has 10,000+ active monitoring configurations, so this role requires strong hands-on technical expertise in Zabbix architecture, troubleshooting, optimization, migration and enterprise-scale monitoring.

Key Responsibilities
• Assess existing Zabbix architecture, configuration, infrastructure, database and monitoring design.
• Evaluate scalability, performance, availability and operational efficiency.
• Identify architectural bottlenecks and configuration gaps and recommend improvements.
• Plan and execute the upgrade of Zabbix environments to Zabbix 7.4, including compatibility validation, testing, backups, rollback planning and production deployment.
• Review and optimize approximately 150 Zabbix templates, including items, discovery rules, triggers, macros, preprocessing, dependencies and update intervals.
• Identify redundant monitoring items, inefficient polling, duplicate checks and unnecessary data collection.
• Reduce false positives, alert noise and unnecessary notifications.
• Design and execute the consolidation of two Zabbix environments into a single deployment.




• Handle configuration differences, host identity conflicts, duplicate monitoring entities, dependencies and migration requirements.
• Review history/trend retention, housekeeping, database performance and storage utilization.
• Optimize triggers, thresholds, dependencies, severity levels, event-generation logic and escalation workflows.
• Conduct gap analysis and align the monitoring environment with Zabbix and enterprise monitoring best practices.
• Identify opportunities for automation using Zabbix APIs, automated host registration, LLD, template linkage and configuration management.
• Develop or improve scripts and integrations where required.
• Prepare architecture documents, migration plans, technical documentation and operational runbooks.
• Provide knowledge transfer to internal infrastructure and monitoring teams. Required Technical Expertise
• Extensive hands-on experience with Zabbix architecture, administration, troubleshooting and performance optimization
• Strong experience with Zabbix 4.x and 7.x
• Hands-on experience with Zabbix upgrades, migrations and consolidation projects
• Strong understanding of Zabbix Server, Proxy, Agent, Templates, Items, Triggers, Actions, Events and Discovery




• Experience developing, reviewing, debugging and optimizing complex Zabbix templates
• Strong knowledge of trigger expressions, event correlation, alert dependencies, escalation workflows and notification configuration
• Experience with history/trend storage, retention policies, housekeeping and database optimization
• Experience managing large-scale Zabbix environments
• Knowledge of SNMP, agent-based monitoring, APIs and infrastructure telemetry
• Experience with PostgreSQL or MySQL/MariaDB and database performance troubleshooting
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills
• Working knowledge of Python, Bash or similar scripting/automation
• Experience with REST APIs, integrations and automated configuration management
• Understanding of production change management, backup/recovery, rollback planning and implementation validation. Preferred Experience
• MSP or multi-tenant monitoring workplace experience
• Experience managing multiple customer environments and tenant-specific monitoring requirements
• Experience designing highly available and scalable Zabbix architectures
• Large-scale infrastructure monitoring across data centers, virtualization, network devices and storage
• Experience with historical monitoring data migration and retention/archival strategies
• Familiarity with Ansible, Terraform or similar automation tools
• Experience integrating Zabbix with ITSM, ticketing or incident management platforms
• Zabbix certification/training is an added advantage.

📌 Senior Zabbix Engineer (Kochi)
🏢 Nuventure Connect
📍 Kochi