Sr Maximo Administrator

Solar Winds Engineer

Alexandria, VA

• Experienced Solar Winds Engineer
• 7+ years' experience working in a large complex environment (> 4K infrastructure components and applications).
• Must have an understanding in the administration, support, configuration, and operation of the following:
• Routers, switches
• Wireless (Cisco WLC)
• Firewalls (VPN, remote access)
• Cisco Call manager (CUCM)
• Cisco Netflow configuration
• Storage (Brocade, Netapp, Commvault ,DXI)
• Server (Windows, Nix)
• Applications (AD, DHCP, DNS, SaaS, PaaS)
• Databases (SQL, DB2, Oracle)
• Web (IIS, Web Sphere)
• Email (Exchange, OWA)
• VMware, Hyper-V
• Pingdom Web monitoring (CSS, HTML, synthetic transactions)
• Competent understanding of mixed-technology solutions
• Act as part of a structured operations team in support of resolving technical issues
• Availability to troubleshoot and resolve issues during off-work hours and/or extended hours when outages or projects required
• Mentoring
  
  Skills:
  
  Proven ability to provide technical leadership and mentoring
• Organizational Skills (ability to organize large amounts of data in a logical manner)
• Excellent Troubleshooting Skills
• Strong communication skills are required
• Excellent documentation skills are required
• Ability to convey technical concepts to non-technical executives and managers
• Work is performed in a fast-paced Information Technology environment
• Bachelor's required or an additional 4 years of work experience

Seeking a highly skilled Solar Winds Engineer to support the installation, configuration, and operational monitoring of Solar Winds across a large-scale enterprise environment. The ideal candidate will work closely with system administrators and network teams to ensure optimal performance, security, and reliability of network and server infrastructure.

• Support Solar Winds installations, upgrades, and testing of multiple tier, multiple server Solar Winds platform
• At least twice-yearly platform upgrades
• Apply critical security vulnerability patches as needed
• Provide Solar Winds expertise at all levels of installations, upgrades, and testing
• Support Installation and testing at all remote sites to include
• Troubleshoot any installation or upgrade problems
• Configuration as needed
• Document and provide Lessons Learned if applicable

• Create custom dashboard for remote and domestic users and groups including
• Groupings based on custom properties
• Dynamic custom property-based dashboards that can display based on AD group membership
• Adding components as needed including the following
• Additional web front end servers
• Additional polling engines

• Track and monitor all Solar Winds installations using web console including the following panels, Windows, Virtualization, Network, Agents, SNMP, ICMP, and polling
• Address and resolve submitted support tickets for Solar Winds
• Provide the help desk initial troubleshooting steps to determine type of ticket needed
• Handle day to day checks and monitoring

• Detect, report, diagnose, and resolve performance issues.

• ESXi and ESX Server version 6.7 or later
• VMware vSphere version 6.7 or later

• Monitor servers and applications

Quadrant is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, status as a protected veteran, or status as an individual with a disability. "Healthcare benefits are offered to all eligible employees according to compliance mandated by the Affordable Care Act".