ROLE DESCRIPTION:

Seeking a Systems Engineer to support federal client with enterprise monitoring of distributed systems. The candidate will have 5 years of experience demonstrating comprehensive knowledge of key tasks in one or more system monitoring software packages to include App Dynamics, IBM Omnibus, IBM NOI (Netcool Operations Insight), HP APM (App Performance Manager), Operations Center (MicroFocus), Topaz (MicroFocus), or Operations Center MVS. The installation, configuration, and management of these tools to include working with the application teams to gather requirements and tune the systems for alert thresholds. Part of the Enterprise Monitoring team supporting after hours incidents as needed. This position requires the following experience:

Network Operation Centers

Disaster Planning & Recovery

Backups & Data Transfers

Power Management; Reporting

Systems Monitoring; Automation

Security Monitoring & Processes

Must be able to support infrequent after hours and weekend escalations as needed (aside from on-call rotation)

Support the collection of requirements for enterprise monitoring systems

Works with application and functional engineers to tune enterprise monitoring thresholds and triggers

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

+ US Citizenship

+ 3-10 years of experience and a B.S. degree. Bachelor of Science (BS) can be substituted with an additional 4 years of related experience.

+ 5 years of experience in IT enterprise monitoring system design, implementation and Level 3 support activities

+ 5 years of experience as an administrator of IBM AIX and or Red Hat Linux servers

+ 3 years of experience collecting requirements from application owners and implementing those requirements