SCOM Engineer

Description

The Defense Group at Leidos currently has a career opportunity for a SCOM Engineer to work at Joint Andrews.

Job Summary:
The AFNCR IT Services program provides support services for information systems for Headquarters Air Force (HAF), Air Force District of Washington (AFDW), Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), Joint Chiefs of Staff, and other Air Force activities within the AFNCR, missions to include the Pentagon, Joint Base Andrews (JBA), Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling (JBAB), and other locations, leased spaces, and alternate sites. The major support areas required are: IT Operations and Maintenance; Plans, Projects, and Engineering (PP&E); and National Military Command Center (NMCC). The senior leaders and national defense missions that are supported require that the AFNCR operations never fail, resulting in a fast-paced, challenging, but also rewarding environment.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Support all aspects of Air Force Nation Capital Region (AFNCR) enterprise operations, to include technical planning, design, development, integration, assessment, and requirements analysis, as well as future capability needs (near and long-term) to drive the design and maintain an IT Enterprise.
  
• Supports customer requirements in a 24/7/365 IT enterprise operations environment.
  
• This position is part of a team that tracks system performance using in-place monitoring tools such as SCOM, SolarWinds, and vCenter to support comprehensive monitoring and application/Infrastructure performance and availability.
  
• Perform administrative tasks from the System Center Operation Manager (SCOM).
  
• Review and update SCOM console security, apply patches, create SCOM console roles and reviews, and create and install custom Management Packs (MP) as needed.
  
• Deliver SCOM views, create custom reports on results of SCOM monitoring, use SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) technologies, and provide problem resolution for SCOM components and related custom scripts.
  
• Build Executive Dashboards via Web interfaces or other dashboards.
  
• Identifies application and infrastructure performance and scalability risks and mitigation for risks in a timely manner.
  
• Identifies trends, implements new solutions/processes that fix issues, and continually strives toward moving from a reactive stance to a proactive stance.
  
• Ensures that applications deployed will properly scale and meet expected SLAs for Performance, Availability, Scalability and Stability.
  
• Monitors and reports for existing applications/systems and infrastructure.
  
• Creates automated solutions for data collection and reporting for existing applications and infrastructure for Performance and Availability.
  
• Reviews and analyzes Web Application Performance and end user experience (client-side browser profiling), utilizing a deep understanding various monitoring tool.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree with 8+ years of prior relevant experience or a Masters with 6+ years of prior relevant experience, additional years of related experience, certification and/or training may be accepted in lieu of a degree.
  
• Active DoD Secret clearance.
  
• On premise support is required.
  
• Experience and knowledge of IT enterprise operations in the AFNCR.
  
• Experience working in large enterprise operations environments that include: the identification, development, analysis, scheduling and managing of enterprise IT activities, solutions/risk mitigations, artifacts, and migrations.
  
• Experience applying systems engineering fundamental concepts, processes, practices, and procedures on technical assignments.
  
• Understanding of information technology functions and services supporting the AFNCR and the missions of its respective agencies
  
• Experience developing and leading enterprise automation and enterprise class commercial technology integrations.
  
• Demonstrated experience in implementing enterprise automation and technologies systems engineering practices, especially in collaborative environments.
  
• Experience in collaborating with other enterprise technologists both internal and external to resolve complex technical issues.
  
• Experience in supporting and coordinating across senior level organizations.
  
• Experience mentoring junior team members.
  
• Ability to communicate with senior management and customers.
  
• Superior oral and written communication skills.
  
• Candidate must, at a minimum, meet DoD 8570.11- IAT Level II certification requirements (currently Security+ CE, CCNA-Security, GSEC, or SSCP).

Pay Range:
Pay Range $97,500.00 - $176,250.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

About Leidos

Leidos is a Fortune 500® technology, engineering, and science solutions and services leader working to solve the world's toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, civil, and health markets. The company's 46,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $14.4 billion for the fiscal year ended December 30, 2022. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

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