Offer summary

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree with a minimum of 8 years of experience, or a Master's degree with 6 years, or a PhD with 3 years., Active Security+ certification is required., Experience with IBM ITM, Netcool, or Instana is essential., U.S. Citizenship and an active Public Trust are mandatory..

Key responsibilities:

Identify configuration items requiring monitoring in collaboration with customers.

Configure and manage monitoring infrastructure and develop workflows for system monitoring requests.

Install and configure IBM ITM Agentless/Agent on systems and applications, and manage alert notifications.

Develop reporting requirements and maintain the monitoring infrastructure, including security compliance and application performance evaluations.

Job description

About Peraton

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 peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Program Overview

About The Role

We are looking to add an IBM System Administrator to our team of talented professionals.

What you'll do:

Work with customer to identify all configuration items that will require monitoring.
Configure and manage the existing monitoring infrastructure to facilitate and implement additional monitoring.
Create workflow and processes to handle to system monitoring requests.
Work with system administrators to install and configure the IBM ITM Agentless / Agent on systems and for applications.
Work with system owners to define additional/special monitoring requirements.
Work with system owners and network team to monitor network availability and capacity for all systems in the environment.
Develop and maintain reporting requirements for alerts (live dashboards and historical reporting).
Work with the system owners to define and maintain alert notification methods for key personnel.
Responsible for adding new managed systems into the monitoring infrastructure along with their monitoring services.
Define/create process for temporary configuration changes (i.e. stopping alerts during system maintenance if applicable).
Define/create process for requesting configuration changes to the environment as needs change.
Develop NetCool interface with BMC Remedy for auto-generated incident tickets.
Install, configure and manage servers, storage, operating system, and updates for monitoring system infrastructure.
Address any security queries from IA and IAVA's, apply security patches, and RMF activities.
Create scripts and tools to achieve tasks in support of monitoring and reporting activities.
Install and configure IBM ITM/Instana/netcool application upgrades and patches.
Monitor IBM ITM/Instana/netcool applications and databases.
Evaluate application performance due to interaction with various security and point products, advise solutions and best practices.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

Minimum of 8 years with BS/BA; Minimum of 6 years with MS/MA; Minimum of 3 years with PhD
Must have active Security+ certification
Experience with IBM ITM, Netcool or Instana
Must have active Public Trust
U.S. Citizenship is required

SCA / Union / Intern Rate or Range

Details

Target Salary Range: $104,000 - $166,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

EEO:Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.

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