Solar Winds Engineer with a Top Secret Clearance

Peraton•Golden, CO

About The Position

Peraton is 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 role uses 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 engineer will work in a security-conscious government environment, comply with applicable security requirements, and maintain technical documentation supporting operational readiness and mission success.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Network Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience. Experience alternatives listed: 8 years with a high school diploma, 6 years with a master’s degree, or 3 years with a PhD.
Experience in network monitoring, infrastructure engineering, systems administration, or a related IT operations role.
Hands-on experience administering SolarWinds Orion or SolarWinds Observability products in an enterprise environment.
Experience configuring and troubleshooting SNMP, ICMP, and WMI monitoring protocols.
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.
U.S. citizenship and a Top Secret clearance, with the ability to obtain a Department of Energy clearance.

Nice To Haves

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

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, device polling, SNMP, WMI, ICMP, syslog, and other monitoring protocols.
Develop and maintain dashboards, reports, alerts, thresholds, and performance metrics to identify service degradation and infrastructure issues.
Monitor network availability, bandwidth utilization, latency, packet loss, server health, application performance, and infrastructure capacity.
Troubleshoot SolarWinds platform issues, polling failures, data collection problems, alerting errors, and integration challenges.
Integrate SolarWinds with IT service management, ticketing, configuration management, log management, and other enterprise monitoring tools.
Support platform upgrades, patching, configuration changes, database maintenance, performance tuning, and disaster recovery activities.
Maintain 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 government security policies, system authorization requirements, change control processes, and operational procedures.
Support system audits, compliance assessments, vulnerability remediation, and technical reviews.
Participate in maintenance windows, operational readiness reviews, technical briefings, and on-call support when required by the contract.