System Center Monitoring (SCOM) Systems Engineer, Senior

Boarhog LLC has immediate openings for a System Center Monitoring (SCOM) Systems Engineer, Senior in San Diego, CA.

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in an IT system engineering role, including developing architecture and design of complex distributed IT systems environments.
• 5+ years of experience with the installation, configuration, and administration of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM).
• 3+ years of experience with mid- to enterprise-scale networks. Experience working in large enterprise operations environment, including the identification, development, analysis, scheduling, and managing of enterprise IT activities, solutions and risk mitigations, artifacts, and migrations.
• Experience with architecting, designing, securing, installing, troubleshooting, and documenting integrated server or network solutions. Ability to communicate with senior management and customers.
• Ability to support onsite delivery at least 1 day a week (with likelihood for growing onsite requirement as stipulated by govt client).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with applying systems engineering fundamental concepts, processes, practices, and procedures on technical assignments.
• Experience with enterprise server, storage, networking, software, and application services depth in a single solution platform.
• Experience in collaborating with other enterprise technologists, both internally and externally, to resolve complex technical issues.
• Experience in supporting and coordinating across senior-level organizations.
• Experience with mentoring junior team members.
• Experience with cloud-based technology.
• Experience with Python or PowerShell scripting.

Duties & Responsibilities

Your customer will trust you to not only design and develop these systems but also evolve them with advanced technology solutions. Your role will involve performing administrative, design, engineering, and operational tasks for a global enterprise SCOM system supporting the Navy. You will be proactive in security posture review, updates to the SCOM console, patch installation, custom SCOM role and Management Packs deployment, building SCOM views, custom reports, use of SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) technologies, and building Executive Dashboards will all be crucial aspects of ensuring the system's optimal functionality. In this role, you will identify application and infrastructure performance and scalability trends, implement new solutions and processes that fix issues, and continually strive toward moving from a reactive stance to a proactive stance. You will work closely with the application and infrastructure teams to set up performance monitoring for applications, databases, and network devices to ensure applications deployed will properly scale and meet expected SLAs for Performance, Availability, Scalability, and Stability. This will create an effective monitoring solution and assist in establishing the appropriate response to those events through processes and procedures, enabling level 1 and 2 teams to resolve as many issues as possible.

Education & Certifications

• HS diploma or GED DoD 8570 (minimum).
• 11- IAT Level II Certification, (e.g. Security+ CE, CCNA-Security, GSEC, or SSCP) in addition to Operating Environment (OE) certification for Microsoft Platforms/Solutions.
• Bachelor's Degree in CS, Information Technology, or Engineering (preferred).
• CASP or CISSP Certification (preferred).

Additional Selection Criteria

Active DoD Secret clearance at time of hiring or brought back into currency within a few weeks after hiring.

Boarhog Benefits

• Very competitive salary and opportunities for additional compensation.
• Medical/dental/vision health benefits.
• Self-Determination.
• Company 401K contribution.
• Health savings account.
• Vacation.
• Stipend for residing in a HUBZone location.
• Relocation or small signing bonus and earned performance bonus.

We thrive in a welcoming, family-like culture within a completely flat organization, with a vested interest in associates' personal and professional goals and aspirations. As a successful and respected Service-Disabled Veteran Owned (SDVO) and certified Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) small business of professionals, there is no fat on the Boarhog. Nobody has ever and will never make a living watching other associates do work. Boarhog associates therefore enjoy a culture of self-determination, encouraged and supported to exercise greater control and make choices and manage their own lives. The result is an exceedingly low associate turnover rate. Once a Boarhog, always a Boarhog. The company co-founders, both Navy veterans with decades of public sector acquisition experience, actively engage in day-to-day operations and also periodically perform direct on government and commercial contracts. Come join us!