Solar Winds Engineer with a Top Secret Clearance
Peraton · Golden, CO, US
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## SolarWinds Engineer (Top Secret Clearance) ### Company Overview Peraton is a next-generation national security company that delivers trusted solutions and enterprise IT capabilities to protect our nation and allies. ### 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. - Configure network discovery and monitoring protocols (e.g., **SNMP, WMI, ICMP, syslog**). - Build and maintain custom **dashboards, reports, alerts, thresholds**, and performance metrics. - Monitor network availability, bandwidth, latency, packet loss, server health, application performance, and infrastructure capacity. - Troubleshoot SolarWinds issues (polling failures, data collection problems, alerting errors, integrations). - Integrate SolarWinds with **ITSM/ticketing, configuration management, log management**, and other monitoring tools. - Support upgrades, patching, configuration changes, database maintenance, performance tuning, and disaster recovery. - Maintain accurate network topology, device inventory, monitoring configurations, operational procedures, and documentation. - Collaborate with network operations, systems engineering, cybersecurity, and service desk teams to resolve incidents and improve availability. - Support incident response, root cause analysis, problem management, and corrective actions. - Ensure monitoring solutions align with government security policies, authorization requirements, change control, and operational procedures. - Support audits, compliance assessments, vulnerability remediation, and technical reviews. - Participate in maintenance windows, readiness reviews, technical briefings, and on-call support as required. ### Qualifications **Required** - Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience): - **8+ years** with relevant experience (IT/CS/Network Engineering or related) - **HS diploma + 12 years** - **Master’s + 6 years** - **PhD + 3 years** - Hands-on experience administering **SolarWinds Orion** and/or **SolarWinds Observability** in an enterprise environment. - Experience configuring/troubleshooting **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 with alert configuration, dashboard/reporting, performance analysis, and troubleshooting. - Experience working within **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 **Top Secret clearance** and ability to obtain a **Dept. of Energy clearance**. **Preferred** - 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 in **classified/restricted environments**. -
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