Description
Leidos is seeking a Principal ScienceLogic Skylar 1/SL1 Engineer to design, deploy, configure, and transition to operations an enterprise ScienceLogic SL1 monitoring solution supporting a distributed, classified Department of Defense (DoD) environment.
The successful candidate will serve as a primary technical engineer for implementation of the Skylar 1 (formerly SL1) platform, including deployment of the core Skylar 1/database infrastructure within a Microsoft Azure cloud environment and distributed Skylar 1 Data Collectors across multiple geographically separated sites.
This position requires strong ScienceLogic engineering experience combined with knowledge of Azure infrastructure, enterprise networking, Windows and Linux systems, cybersecurity, and monitoring architecture. The engineer will work closely with cloud, network, cybersecurity, systems engineering, and site operations teams to establish secure connectivity between the centralized SL1 platform and distributed monitored environments.
The engineer will support the solution through design, implementation, testing, accreditation, deployment, documentation, and transition to steady-state operations.
Responsibilities:
- Design, engineer, deploy, configure, and document an enterprise ScienceLogic Skylar 1 architecture supporting a classified, geographically distributed environment.
- Implement and configure Skylar 1 core platform components within Microsoft Azure, including database, administration, monitoring, and supporting platform services.
- Design and deploy distributed Skylar 1 Data Collectors across multiple remote sites and network enclaves.
- Develop collector placement and sizing strategies based on device population, network topology, bandwidth, latency, security boundaries, and availability requirements.
- Configure secure communications between distributed collectors and centralized Skylar 1 platform components.
- Configure Skylar 1 discovery processes and onboard network devices, servers, virtual infrastructure, applications, and other enterprise technology components.
- Configure and maintain ScienceLogic PowerPacks, Dynamic Applications, device classes, credentials, monitoring policies, thresholds, events, dashboards, and reports.
- Develop customized monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and reporting to meet operational and cybersecurity requirements.
- Establish appropriate monitoring thresholds and key performance indicators (KPIs) for enterprise infrastructure.
- Support Skylar 1 software installation, upgrades, patches, migrations, backup, recovery, and lifecycle management.
- Perform capacity planning and performance tuning of SL1 platform components.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or related technical discipline with 12+ years of relevant experience.
- 3+ years of hands-on ScienceLogic Skylar 1/SL1 engineering or administration experience, including deployment and configuration of SL1 platform components.
- Demonstrated experience deploying and administering ScienceLogic Data Collectors in distributed enterprise environments.
- Experience with Skylar 1/SL1 device discovery, PowerPacks, Dynamic Applications, monitoring policies, thresholds, events, dashboards, and reporting.
- Experience troubleshooting ScienceLogic platform, collector, database, discovery, and communications issues.
- Experience supporting large enterprise infrastructure monitoring environments.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Azure infrastructure, including virtual machines, networking, storage, security controls, and identity.
- Strong understanding of enterprise networking concepts, including TCP/IP, routing, DNS, firewalls, VLANs, network segmentation, ports, protocols, and access control.
- Experience with monitoring technologies and protocols such as SNMPv3, ICMP, REST APIs, HTTPS, SSH, WMI/WinRM, and Syslog.
- System Admin experience with both Linux and Windows Server operating systems.
- Experience supporting cybersecurity hardening, vulnerability remediation, and DISA STIG implementation.
- Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills with the ability to isolate problems spanning application, database, operating system, cloud, and network layers.
- Ability to develop detailed engineering documentation, implementation procedures, diagrams, and operational documentation.
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to engineering teams, cybersecurity personnel, program leadership, and government customers.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively within geographically distributed engineering teams.
- Ability to work at Ft. Meade as a primary work site.
- Ability to travel to customer and remote sites as required.
Benefits:
- Salary Range: $131,300.00 - $237,350.00