Junior SolarWinds Applications Engineer – DoD IT Ops

Amentum; Colorado Springs (CO); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Paid time off and holidays

Retirement benefits (401(k) matching)

Educational reimbursement

Parental leave

Employee stock purchase plan

Tax-saving options

Disability

Job summary

Amentum is seeking a Jr. Applications Engineer to administer and support SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted and StruxureWare Data Center Expert. You will manage configurations, patches, and DISA STIG compliance at a DoD IT environment.

Responsibilities include maintaining system health, designing dashboards, and providing on-call support with rapid response times. Must have DoD Secret clearance and IAT Level II certification to apply.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of general (full-time) work experience.
• 1+ years of directly related IT administration experience.
• Proficiency with Windows Server 2022+ and Microsoft Security patches.
• Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills for platform/app outages.
• Knowledge of SNMPv3, Syslog, ICMP, HTTPS, TCP/IP, DNS, SSH, TFTP, and WMI.
• Basic knowledge of SQL Server 2022+ and SWQL for backend troubleshooting.
• Proficiency with PowerShell, Python, or Bash for automation/integrations.
• Understanding of networking concepts: IP Subnetting, TCP/IP, routing/switching, VLANs, packet analysis.
• Experience with Remedy/Helix ticketing systems.
• Experience or basic skills with Linux operating systems.
• Willing to provide on-call support 24/7 and respond within 1 hour.
• Must have current DoW 8570 IAT Level II certification and an active DoW Secret clearance.

Responsibilities

• Administer, maintain, and support SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted and StruxureWare Data Center Expert applications, ensuring they are configured, upgraded, patched, and DISA STIG compliant.
• Oversee overall health of these environments, optimize/infrastructure, design dashboards, create event maps, assist with thresholds/alerts, and deliver performance data to teams.
• Provide On-call support on a rotating basis and respond to degradation/outages within 1 hour.

Skills

Windows Server 2022

PowerShell

Python

Bash

Networking concepts

Troubleshooting

DoD interfacing

On-call support

1 hour response

Tools

SolarWinds Observability

StruxureWare Data Center Expert

Remedy/Helix

SQL SWQL

SQL Server 2022

Job description

Amentum is seeking a Jr. Applications Engineer to administer and support SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted and StruxureWare Data Center Expert. You will manage configurations, patches, and DISA STIG compliance at a DoD IT environment.

Responsibilities include maintaining system health, designing dashboards, and providing on-call support with rapid response times. Must have DoD Secret clearance and IAT Level II certification to apply.