Lead - DISANet Systems Monitoring Center Administrator; DSMC)

Quantum Sky is searching for a Lead Systems Monitoring Center Administrator (DSMC) to support a 4th estate customer at Fort Meade.

Responsibilities:

• Provide continuous monitoring and operational awareness of enterprise network infrastructure, services, systems, and end-user experience using Solar Winds, Science Logic, Aternity, and other approved monitoring platforms.
• Monitor alerts, events, performance indicators, and service health to identify outages, degradation, abnormal conditions, and potential mission impact.
• Perform initial analysis of monitoring alerts to determine scope and potential impact and initiate appropriate escalation to Tier 3 engineering or other responsible technical teams.
• Create incident tickets for identified outages and ensure incidents are escalated to the appropriate teams within established time frames.
• Track network outages, service disruptions, VIP-impacting incidents, and other high-visibility events through resolution, maintaining accurate status and timeline information.
• Develop and distribute twice-daily operational status reports, outage notifications, and other required operational reporting.
• Document significant events, outages, escalations, and actions within the Master Station Log (MSL).
• Correlate information across multiple monitoring platforms to provide a comprehensive view of network, service, and end-user experience.
• Develop and maintain Power BI dashboards and reports to communicate operational health, availability, incident trends, performance, and other key metrics.
• Generate ad hoc, daily, weekly, and monthly reports using Power BI, Service Now, Solar Winds, Science Logic, Aternity, and other approved data sources.
• Support onboarding and offboarding of network devices, services, and other assets within monitoring platforms to maintain accurate and complete monitoring coverage.
• Identify gaps in monitoring coverage, including devices or services that are not reporting or being monitored as expected, and coordinate corrective action.
• Interface with DISA customers, technical teams, and leadership to communicate operational status, significant events, emerging trends, and mission impacts.
• Prepare and deliver operational briefings and status updates for both technical and senior leadership audiences.
• Support configuration and integration of monitoring and reporting platforms as necessary to improve visibility, reporting accuracy, and operational awareness.
• Maintain clear, concise, and accurate documentation in a fast-paced operational environment.

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree and 4+ years of relevant experience; additional years of relevant experience may be substituted in lieu of a degree.
• Experience supporting enterprise IT operations, network operations, a Network Operations Center (NOC), or a similar monitoring environment.
• Experience using one or more enterprise monitoring platforms such as Solar Winds, Science Logic, Aternity, or comparable tools.
• Experience identifying and analyzing infrastructure, network, service, or end-user performance issues using monitoring data.
• Experience creating and tracking incidents using Service Now ITSM or a comparable IT service management platform.
• Experience developing operational reports, metrics, dashboards, and status reports.
• Experience with Power BI or comparable data visualization/reporting tools.
• Strong technical writing skills, including the ability to clearly document outages, impacts, timelines, and technical events.
• Ability to interpret technical information and translate it into concise reporting appropriate for both technical teams and leadership.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office products, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Ability to work onsite Monday through Friday from 3:00 PM–11:00…