Enterprise Monitoring Engineer - TS​/SCI Polygraph

Enterprise Monitoring Engineer

Own your opportunity to support national defense and help keep critical operations secure and connected across the global enterprise. Your work enhances system reliability, cybersecurity posture, and rapid response to events across diverse networks and platforms.

• Administer, maintain, and optimize enterprise monitoring platforms, including event management, performance monitoring, log aggregation, and alerting systems.
• Develop and enhance dashboards, alerting rules, data collection policies, telemetry baselines, and automation workflows to increase accuracy and operational visibility.
• Monitor and analyze system performance trends across servers, applications, network devices, and cloud/on‑prem infrastructure to proactively identify degradation or risk.
• Implement secure configuration baselines, system hardening standards, and STIG‑aligned controls for monitoring infrastructure, agents, and data collection components.
• Execute timely patching, firmware updates, and security fixes for monitoring platforms using approved deployment and compliance technologies.
• Review vulnerability and compliance scan results, identify noncompliant monitoring systems, determine root causes, and coordinate remediation actions with stakeholders.
• Track and apply approved security directives, task orders, and vulnerability notifications that affect monitoring servers, collectors, and log/data ingestion paths.
• Provide Tier3 troubleshooting and escalation support for complex monitoring issues including ingestion failures, alert anomalies, data latency, and performance discrepancies.
• Collaborate with engineering, network, cybersecurity, and operations teams to onboard new systems, validate secure architectures, and support accreditation requirements.
• Maintain detailed documentation of monitoring configurations, patch schedules, alerting policies, workflows, and procedures to support audit readiness and change control.

• Bachelor’s degree in an IT‑related field OR 10+ years of relevant IT experience in lieu of a degree.
• DoD
  8140 Information Assurance Workforce certification (e.g., Security+ CE).
• Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) v4 or IT Service Management (ITSM) certification.
• Active TS/SCI clearance with a favorable polygraph.
• Hands‑on experience with enterprise monitoring platforms (Solar Winds, ELK/Elastic, Splunk, Dynatrace, App Dynamics, Nagios, Zabbix, or comparable tools).
• Strong understanding of system performance metrics, log ingestion, event correlation, and infrastructure monitoring best practices.
• Experience with patch management, system hardening, vulnerability remediation, and compliance reporting for enterprise software or monitoring systems.
• Strong analytical, communication, and documentation skills with the ability to interpret complex data trends and work across teams.
• U.S. citizenship required.

Location:

Onsite (GDIT). Benefits include comprehensive wellness packages, 401(k) with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off.