Description

　　Leidos is currently seeking a Solar Winds Integrator in support of the AFINC II contract for the highly visible 26th Network Operations Squadron (26 NOS) at Montgomery, AL, which provides a world-wide support mission. The 26 NOS is responsible for the intranet support of the entire Air Force network. The mission of the 26 NOS is to operate and defend the Air Force (AF) Enterprise computer network consisting of the AF Wide Area Network (WAN) routers, AF Network Increment 1 (AFNET Inc 1) Gateways, and the 26 NOS Local Area Network (LAN) assets.

　　Primary Responsibilities

　　Implement/create report dashboard designs, automated custom email report notifications, report data repositories for each environment that are specific to the following audiences: Leadership & Executives; Cybersecurity Staff; and System Administrators

　　Strong expertise in SolarWinds, enterprise network monitoring tools and/or NetFlow analysis for either commercial and DoD (preferred) environments.

　　Ability to maintain valid system certificates, application certificates, F5 load balancing local traffic management (LTM) and two-factor authentication (2FA) within a PKI smart card environment

　　Monitor, troubleshoot, and analyze overall health and effectiveness of four separate SolarWinds instances while utilizing SQL, SWQL, SNMP, WMI and SSH to manage the USAF global WAN

　　Oversee Orion Platform Suite for Federal Government; Server & Application Monitor (SAM); Virtualization Manager (VMAN); IP Address Manager (IPAM); Network Configuration Manager (NCM); Network Performance Monitor (NPM); VoIP & Network Quality Manager (VNQM)

　　Assesses current SolarWinds implementations for each network and recommend changes to distributed deployments to include SQL databases, web pollers, data sources, users, custom apps/dashboards/views

　　Perform root cause analysis, recommend, and implement tactical and strategic solutions to problems

　　Support internal and external websites, fault isolation, performance, quality controls, AF Enterprise Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)/Transport Layer Security (TLS) inspection and analysis

　　Manage the addition, deletion, and editing of all 26th Network Operation Squadron's devices and views

　　Monitor all servers running ENAT applications by utilizing MIBS and performance counters

　　Patch and manage the efficiency and performance of these servers with regards to hardware and OS

　　Create PowerShell scripts that run queries on the SolarWinds database providing efficient performance and network checks for multiple 26 NOS teams

　　Provide technical web & database administrator expertise, guide technical support, create, maintain, secure, and monitor all applicable instances; design, deploy, and optimize SQL databases & web sites

　　Document steps required to design/engineer SolarWinds systems for each network to include virtual/real IP address, Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN), DNS entries, Role Based Access Controls (RBAC), TCP/IP, service accounts, web certificates, licenses and physical/virtual location of each component

　　Oversee the baseline configuration, ensure operational data integrity, and use vendor best practices for Web application systems and secure management across multiple unclassified and classified network locations supporting the interaction with Tenable products within Assured Compliance Assessment Solution (ACAS) including .SC (SecurityCenter™) and Nessus® Scanner™

　　Ability or experience in evaluating scan report data from Tenable Nessus; participate in the review and response phases of the Vulnerability Management (VM) life cycle

　　Install and patch operating systems, applications, network security and document Department Information Systems Agency (DISA) Security Technical Implementation Guidelines (STIGs) checklists applicable to each Non-classified or Secret Internet Protocol (IP) Router Network (NIPRNet, SIPRNet) network environment systems for all SolarWinds, NetQoS, database or web application implementations

　　Manage or assist the processes related to on-boardingusers/projects, configuration audits, building data models, summary data reports, or advanced search analytics

　　Ability to create network designs diagrams with Microsoft Visio (include specialty requirements)

　　Guide customers in the use of strategic products through education and guidance, first-use and tuning assistance problem solving and critical situation resolution

　　Ensure optimal server performance for daily operations and generation of network analysis data from CA NetQoS for customers within and outside of the 26 NOS organization.

　　Basic Qualifications

　　Candidate must have a minimum of 3-5 years of SolarWinds Orion products experience and/or other enterprise monitoring tools experience interacting with 3rdparty systems preferably in role(s) such as a system administrator, engineer, developer or SME capacity

　　Active Secret government security clearance required.

　　Candidate should have hands-on experience in:

　　System Integrator and/or administrator for SolarWinds nodes, users, , systems, custom views reports, dashboards, Network Atlas maps, simple/complex alerts and 3rdparty onboarding

　　Windows OS systems support, patch/update management, best practices, advanced commands and admin skills with experience in mid-to-large data center environments

　　Demonstrated advanced diagnostics, analytical, troubleshooting skills

　　Add additional servers to cluster; Install/upgrade/patch new software to servers

　　Help the support team solving support tickets (BMC Remedy) on an adhoc basis

　　Perform systems analysis, design review, integration of system applications

　　Experience with disaster recovery (DR) - expertise in risk reduction, hot/warm site DR architecture

　　Scripting/programming experience in HTML, Perl , PowerShell , Python or similar

　　Knowledge of data communications, local-area networking (LAN), wide-area networking (WAN), servers, appliances, routers, switches, and firewalls

　　Network (Layer 2, 3) LAN/WAN knowledge

　　Thorough understanding of Internet Protocol (IP) routing, switching, and OSI model

　　Ability to lift, rack and provision government furnished equipment (GFE) servers

　　CompTIA Security+ ce (continuing education) or higher

　　Minimum one Operating System Certification: CompTIA Linux+;a current Microsoft technical certification: Microsoft 365 Certified: Security Administrator Associate, Microsoft Certified: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate or Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate

　　Minimum one Application Certification : Arcsight, Elastic Stack, RedSeal, SolarWinds, or ESS.

　　Preferred Qualifications

　　SolarWinds Certified Professional: SAM or NCM or NPM or SEM

　　Splunk Core Certified User, Splunk Core Certified Power User

　　SolarWinds Sr/Engineer/SME Positions:

　　SolarWinds Certified Professional: SAM or NCM or NPM or SEM or NTA or DPA or OAD

　　Splunk Core Certified User, Splunk Core Certified Power User or Splunk Core Certified Advanced Power User; Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin or Splunk Enterprise Security Certified Admin

　　Pay Range:

　　Pay Range $55,250.00 - $99,875.00

　　The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

　　Original Posting Date:

　　01/11/2024

　　While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

　　REQNUMBER: R-00126423

　　All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. Leidos will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment in accordance with relevant Laws. Leidos is an equal opportunity employer/disability/vet.