SolarWinds Engineer

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace.

The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit  to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced Solar Winds Engineer to support a mission-critical government customer by designing, implementing, administering, and optimizing enterprise network and infrastructure monitoring solutions. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with the Solar Winds Observability platform and Solar Winds Orion-based products, including Network Performance Monitor (NPM), Server & Application Monitor (SAM), Network Configuration Manager (NCM), and related modules.

The successful candidate must be able to operate effectively in a security-conscious environment, comply with government security requirements, and maintain accurate technical documentation in support of operational readiness and mission success.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, configure, administer, and maintain Solar Winds monitoring infrastructure across enterprise network, server, application, and systems environments.
• Manage and optimize Solar Winds NPM, SAM, NCM, and other applicable monitoring modules based on program requirements.
• Configure network discovery, device polling, SNMP, WMI, ICMP, syslog, and other monitoring protocols as appropriate.
• Develop and maintain custom dashboards, reports, alerts, thresholds, and performance metrics to proactively identify service degradation and infrastructure issues.
• Monitor network availability, bandwidth utilization, latency, packet loss, server health, application performance, and overall infrastructure capacity.
• Troubleshoot Solar Winds platform issues, polling failures, data collection problems, alerting errors, and integration challenges.
• Integrate Solar Winds with IT service management (ITSM), ticketing, configuration management, log management, and other enterprise monitoring tools as required.
• Support Solar Winds platform upgrades, patching, configuration changes, database maintenance, performance tuning, and disaster recovery activities.
• Maintain accurate network topology, device inventory, monitoring configurations, operational procedures, and system documentation.
• Collaborate with network operations, systems engineering, cybersecurity, and service desk teams to resolve incidents and improve service availability.
• Support incident response, root cause analysis, problem management, and corrective action implementation.
• Ensure monitoring solutions align with applicable government security policies, system authorization requirements, change control processes, and operational procedures.
• Support system audits, compliance assessments, vulnerability remediation, and technical reviews as required.
• Participate in maintenance windows, operational readiness reviews, technical briefings, and on-call support when required by the contract.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Network Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional…