Enterprise Operation Center Monitoring Incident Response Analyst

Peraton; Sterling (VA); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking an Enterprise Operation Center Monitoring Incident Response Analyst to ensure system availability and respond to incidents in a hybrid work environment. The role requires monitoring complex systems, managing alerts, and collaborating with various teams to maintain operational excellence. Candidates should have experience in incident management and familiarity with monitoring tools, along with a relevant degree or equivalent experience.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in incident triaging.
• Understanding of SharePoint sites and user permissions.
• ITIL foundations certification is desired.

Responsibilities

• Monitor multiple systems and applications for availability.
• Provide timely responses to incidents and outages.
• Coordinate with technical teams for issue resolution.

Skills

Incident Management

Monitoring Tools

Data Analysis

Service Level Agreements (SLAs)

Education

Bachelor's degree

High school diploma/equivalent with 6 years’ experience

Tools

ServiceNow

Zabbix

Grafana

Splunk

Oracle Analytics Publisher (OAS)

Aria vROPS

Job description

Required Qualifications

• U.S. citizenship and an active SECRET Government Security Clearance.
• Minimum of two years’ experience triaging and prioritizing critical incidents to directly align with mission objectives.
• Ability to establish thresholds for alerting and coordinate with technical teams to route alerts appropriately.
• Minimum of two years’ experience collecting and analyzing metrics across a distributed, complex IT enterprise. Experience reporting against and managing to Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
• Understanding of SharePoint sites and user permission rights.

Desired Qualifications

• ServiceNow expertise.
• ITIL foundations certification.

Education and Experience: Bachelor's degree and 2 years’ experience or high school diploma/equivalent and 6 years’ experience.

Peraton is seeking an Enterprise Operation Center (EOC) Monitoring Incident Response Analyst (“IR Analyst”) to join our team of qualified and diverse individuals. The IR Analyst will be part of the Department of State (DOS) Consular Affairs Enterprise Infrastructure Operations (CAEIO) Program. The CAEIO Program provides IT Operations and Maintenance to modernize the legacy networks, applications, and databases supporting CA services globally.

The IR Analyst monitors a complex 24x7x365 environment and works closely with CAIEO colleagues, DoS leadership, and other business stakeholders to resolve alerts quickly. Additionally, the IR Analyst will monitor performance; analyze trends using monitoring tools; troubleshooting problems; and respond to incidents, requests, and changes using ServiceNow.

Responsibilities

• Monitor multiple systems and applications using monitoring tools, such as Zabbix, Grafana, Splunk, AppDynamics, Oracle Analytics Publisher (OAS), and Aria vROPS, to ensure availability of systems and applications in the Consular Affairs (CA) environment.
• Work with the Tools team to develop and maintain proactive monitoring solutions that reduce time, effort, and cost involved with managing and monitoring applications to assess the availability, performance, and capacity of the overall health of the environment.
• Communicate the operational state of enterprise systems to teams within CAEIO and external stakeholders, including the customer.
• Provide timely response to all incidents, outages, and performance alerts. Categorize issues for escalation to appropriate technical teams.
• Recognize, identify, and prioritize incidents in accordance with customer business requirements, organizational policies, and operational impact.
• Support multiple technical teams in 24x7 environment operational environments with high uptime requirements.
• Coordinate within the team and across other internal and external support teams to ensure that trouble tickets are being updated in a timely manner and within the parameters of multiple SLAs.
• Draft and verify Knowledgebase articles to assist technicians with possible reoccurring issues.
• Monitor and track SSL certificates to ensure they are active and renewals are processed in a timely manner.
• Maintain user and administrator accounts using Active Directory and Office 365.
• Help keep sites up to date by using Department of State risk scoring programs.
• Troubleshoot and assist with third party application vulnerability remediations.
• Install and troubleshoot Internet Information Services (IIS) on virtual machines.
• Coordinate with sites to assist with shutdown and start-up of physical and virtual systems for scheduled maintenances.
• Create Standard Operation Procedures for tasks that are utilized by new and existing staff members.

Location: This position is currently hybrid with remote work and up to two days per week in the office in Sterling, VA, or Washington, DC.

This position is hybrid after the IR Analyst completes training onsite in Sterling, VA. After completing training, the IR Analyst is expected to work onsite up to two days per week and may, with manager approval, work remotely the other days. The number of days the IR Analyst works onsite is subject to change based on program requirements (for example, when surge support is required).

Core Work Schedule: Third Shift, 11:00pm– 7:30am, Sunday through Friday (shift for the week starts Sunday evening at 11:00pm and ends Friday morning at 7:30am).