SolarWinds Engineer

Peraton Overview

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Responsibilities

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced SolarWinds Engineer to support a mission-critical government customer by designing, implementing, administering, and optimizing enterprise network and infrastructure monitoring solutions. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with the SolarWinds Observability platform and SolarWinds Orion-based products, including Network Performance Monitor (NPM), Server & Application Monitor (SAM), Network Configuration Manager (NCM), and related modules.

The successful candidate must be able to operate effectively in a security-conscious environment, comply with government security requirements, and maintain accurate technical documentation in support of operational readiness and mission success.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, configure, administer, and maintain SolarWinds monitoring infrastructure across enterprise network, server, application, and systems environments.
• Manage and optimize SolarWinds NPM, SAM, NCM, and other applicable monitoring modules based on program requirements.
• Configure network discovery, device polling, SNMP, WMI, ICMP, syslog, and other monitoring protocols as appropriate.
• Develop and maintain custom dashboards, reports, alerts, thresholds, and performance metrics to proactively identify service degradation and infrastructure issues.
• Monitor network availability, bandwidth utilization, latency, packet loss, server health, application performance, and overall infrastructure capacity.
• Troubleshoot SolarWinds platform issues, polling failures, data collection problems, alerting errors, and integration challenges.
• Integrate SolarWinds with IT service management (ITSM), ticketing, configuration management, log management, and other enterprise monitoring tools as required.
• Support SolarWinds platform upgrades, patching, configuration changes, database maintenance, performance tuning, and disaster recovery activities.
• Maintain accurate network topology, device inventory, monitoring configurations, operational procedures, and system documentation.
• Collaborate with network operations, systems engineering, cybersecurity, and service desk teams to resolve incidents and improve service availability.
• Support incident response, root cause analysis, problem management, and corrective action implementation.
• Ensure monitoring solutions align with applicable government security policies, system authorization requirements, change control processes, and operational procedures.
• Support system audits, compliance assessments, vulnerability remediation, and technical reviews as required.
• Participate in maintenance windows, operational readiness reviews, technical briefings, and on-call support when required by the contract.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Network Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience with 8 years experience, HS diploma with 12 years, Master's with 6 years and PhD with 3 years
• Experience in network monitoring, infrastructure engineering, systems administration, or a related IT operations role.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience administering SolarWinds Orion or SolarWinds Observability products in an enterprise environment.
• Experience configuring and troubleshooting network monitoring protocols, including SNMP, ICMP, and WMI.
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, routing, switching, VLANs, firewalls, and network performance fundamentals.
• Experience monitoring Windows and/or Linux servers and enterprise applications.
• Proficiency in alert configuration, dashboard development, reporting, performance analysis, and troubleshooting.
• Experience working within formal change management, incident management, and configuration management processes.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a mission-focused government IT environment.
• US Citizen with a Top Secret clearance with the ability to obtain a Dept of Energy clearance

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting Department of Energy (DOE), federal civilian, intelligence community, or other government IT programs.
• Experience with SolarWinds NPM, SAM, NCM, NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA), Virtualization Manager, or related modules.
• Familiarity with SolarWinds High Availability (HA), scalability, distributed deployments, and database performance optimization.
• Experience supporting systems operating in classified or otherwise restricted government environments.
• Relevant certifications such as SolarWinds Certified Professional (SCP), CompTIA Security+, Network+, CCNA, or equivalent credentials.

Target Salary Range

$112,000 - $179,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.
Benefits Statement

Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at https://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.

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EEO

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