Enterprise Monitoring Systems Administrator - TS/SCI w/Poly

About the role

Your impact: Support national defense by ensuring continuous visibility, stability, and security of mission-critical systems across multiple enterprise networks.

Responsibilities

• Administer, maintain, and optimize enterprise monitoring systems, including log aggregation, event management, telemetry collection, and performance dashboards.
• Monitor health, availability, and utilization of monitoring platforms and data pipelines, proactively identifying opportunities to enhance accuracy, resilience, and efficiency.
• Implement secure configuration baselines, system hardening standards, and STIG-aligned controls across monitoring servers, agents, collectors, and integration components.
• Execute timely patching and security updates for monitoring platforms, integrated tools, and host systems using automated deployment and compliance technologies.
• Review weekly compliance and vulnerability scan results, identify non-compliant assets, determine root causes, and coordinate remediation actions with system owners.
• Track and apply approved security directives, task orders, and vulnerability notifications to ensure monitoring systems remain aligned with enterprise cybersecurity requirements.
• Configure and maintain alerting policies, performance thresholds, dashboards, and data collection profiles to support infrastructure, network, and application monitoring.
• Provide Tier 3 troubleshooting and escalation support for complex monitoring issues including ingestion failures, alert anomalies, agent performance issues, and data latency.
• Collaborate with engineering, cybersecurity, networking, and operations teams to onboard new data sources, validate secure monitoring configurations, and support accreditation activities.
• Maintain documentation of system configurations, patch schedules, alert logic, dashboards, and procedures to support audit readiness and change control.

Qualifications

• Enterprise Monitoring Systems Administrator Senior: Requires a Bachelor’s degree in an IT-related field or 8 years of relevant IT experience in lieu of a degree.
• Enterprise Monitoring Systems Administrator Principal: Requires a Bachelor’s degree in an IT-related field or 10 years of relevant IT experience in lieu of a degree.
• Meet DoD 8140 Information Assurance Workforce certification requirements (e.g., Security+ CE, etc.).
• Active TS/SCI clearance with a favorable polygraph.
• Hands-on experience administering enterprise monitoring platforms (e.g., SolarWinds, Splunk, Elastic/ELK, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Nagios, Zabbix, or comparable tools).
• Working knowledge of Windows and Linux systems administration, performance tuning, log management, and secure configuration practices.
• Experience performing patch management, vulnerability remediation, system hardening, and compliance reporting across enterprise systems.
• Strong analytical, documentation, and cross-team communication skills.
• US citizenship required.