Lead Monitoring Engineer
SAIC
**Description**
This role is responsible for ensuring the effective discovery, monitoring, and management of IT infrastructure — including servers, cloud services, networks, applications, and storage systems — through OpenText, OBM, SiteScope and other tools. Core monitoring duties include enterprise event consolidation, topology-based health analysis, performance metric tracking, event correlation configuration, and ongoing optimization of OBM to improve operational visibility and responsiveness.
**Job Description and Duties:**
+ Position is required to be full-time onsite at DOT HQ, Washington DC.
+ Assist in driving, standardizing, and managing unified configuration management database.
+ Deploy, manage, and update Management Packs, connectors, and monitoring policies to support business application and service monitoring needs.
+ Implements Management Packs, custom dashboards, third-party connectors, and monitoring automation to proactively detect, troubleshoot, and resolve service-impacting issues.
+ Perform event correlation and filtering to streamline incident triage, reduce noise, and ensure timely escalation to appropriate operational teams.
+ Integrate data sources from third-party monitoring tools (OpenText OBM, SiteScope, Microsoft SCOM) into the unified OBM event console.
+ Assess and fine tune monitoring capabilities to provide accurate and actionable alerts to the 24x7 operations systems.
+ Provides co-witness and correlation support during assessment and outage bridges to assist in resolving service disruptions and restoring services.
+ Creates alerts and notifications based on service availability.
+ Applies new solutions through research and collaboration with team members and determines appropriate courses of action for monitoring enhancements and integrations.
+ Create and provide intuitive and informative dashboards on current and past performance and service status.
+ Configure, maintain, and optimize monitoring dashboards to monitor health and performance across diverse IT infrastructure components.
**Qualifications**
**Required Education and Experience:**
+ Must have extensive knowledge of multi-vendor server operating systems.
+ Minimum of 10 years of experience performing monitoring and managing/configuring monitoring systems.
+ Expert level systems administrator experience managing Windows and/or Linux operating systems.
+ Direct experience and expertise with Management Protocols including SNMP, and WMI.
+ Scripting Experience: PowerShell, VBScript, and/or other scripting experience.
+ Experience managing monitoring systems with >250 Host and/or >3000 sensors.
+ Proven track record of engineering monitoring solutions, providing strategic direction, and fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment.
+ Candidate must be a U.S. citizen or green card holder who has resided in the U.S. for at least 3 years and the ability to obtain a public trust.
**Preferred skills and qualifications:**
+ Experience supporting a 24x7 operations environment, ideally support large Federal/Defense Infrastructures.
+ OpenText suite of tools including AI Operations Management, Operations Bridge, SiteScope, and Optic experience.
+ Experience leading troubleshooting coordination/ acting as a Tech Lead during service outages requiring collaboration across multiple teams and infrastructure components.
+ Expert level experience with scripting and automation.
+ Experience integrating monitoring tools to operate through ServiceNow.
+ Experience automating alerts to generate Service Tickets.
+ Strong understanding of ITIL and ITSM including monitoring, demand management, availability management, and capacity management.
+ ITIL certification(s) including Foundations and above strongly preferred.
+ Experience analyzing monitoring and associated reports to drive business decisions for capacity and availability experience.
+ Experience creating senior level brief work products including functional and data driven dashboards from captured performance data and availability metrics.
+ Experience with visualization and computational tools.
Target salary range: $80,001 - $120,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
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SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability
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