Monitoring Engineer

Unisys; United States; Remote; USD 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equal opportunity employer

Job summary

Unisys is seeking a Monitoring Engineer to own and extend the Nagios XI monitoring stack. You will manage deployments, upgrades, and backups while onboarding new devices and services to maintain complete visibility across Windows and Linux environments.

You will develop custom checks using NRPE, NCPA, SNMP, and scripts, tune alerts, and collaborate with IT and network teams to close gaps. Strong automation experience and clear communication are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of systems/network administration experience.
• 2+ years administering Nagios XI in production or strong XI familiarity with Nagios Core.
• Solid scripting ability across platforms: Bash/Python for Linux checks and PowerShell for Windows checks via NCPA.
• Working knowledge of SNMP, NRPE/NCPA, syslog, and common monitoring protocols.
• Understanding networking fundamentals relevant to monitoring connectivity (TCP/IP, ports, firewalls).
• Self-motivated and able to operate independently with minimal oversight.
• Strong communication skills to translate monitoring data for teams and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and administer the Nagios XI platform, including upgrades, patches, plugin updates, backups, and health checks.
• Onboard new devices, servers, and services into monitoring to ensure coverage scales with infrastructure.
• Design and maintain custom checks and monitoring scripts (NRPE, NCPA, SNMP, plugins) across Windows and Linux.
• Tune alerts and thresholds to minimize false positives while catching real issues.
• Monitor and optimize platform performance, including capacity, latency, and database health.
• Document configurations, runbooks, and processes to keep monitoring logic transparent and maintainable.
• Collaborate with IT, network, systems, and application teams to identify monitoring gaps and translate services into checks.
• Evaluate new plugins, integrations, and automation opportunities to continuously improve the platform.

Skills

Nagios XI

Bash

Python

PowerShell

NRPE

NCPA

SNMP

Syslog

Education

Bachelors degree in Computer Science or IT

Tools

Ansible

SCCM

ServiceNow

Job description

What success looks like in this role:

We are seeking a motivated Monitoring Engineer with 3 years plus of experience, including 2 years plus administering Nagios XI, to join our team. The ideal candidate works independently with minimal guidance, takes initiative to expand and improve monitoring coverage, and is comfortable operating in a mixed Windows/Linux environment.

Key Responsibilities:

Maintain and administer the Nagios XI platform, including upgrades, patches, plugin updates, backups, and general platform health.

Onboard new devices, servers, and services into monitoring as infrastructure grows, ensuring no gaps in coverage.

Design, build, and maintain custom checks and monitoring scripts (NRPE, NCPA, SNMP, custom plugins) across Windows and Linux systems.

Tune alerting and thresholds to reduce false positives while ensuring real issues are reliably detected.

Monitor and optimize platform performance, including capacity, check latency, and database health.

Document configurations, runbooks, and processes to keep monitoring logic transparent and maintainable.

Partner with IT, network, systems, and application teams to identify monitoring gaps and translate business-critical services into checks.

Proactively evaluate new plugins, integrations, and automation opportunities to continuously improve the platform.

You will be successful in this role if you have:

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

3 years plus of systems/network administration experience, including 2 years plus administering Nagios XI (or Nagios Core with strong XI familiarity) in a production environment.

Solid scripting ability across platforms - Bash and/or Python for Linux checks, and PowerShell for Windows checks via NCPA.

Working knowledge of SNMP, NRPE/NCPA, syslog, and common network/server monitoring protocols.

Understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, ports, firewalls) as they relate to monitoring connectivity.

Self-motivated and able to operate independently with minimal oversight.

Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate technical monitoring data for other teams and leadership.

Preferred Skills:

Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, SCCM, etc.) for automating monitoring deployment.

Experience integrating Nagios with ticketing system (ServiceNow).

This role may require access to export-controlled commodities and technology. Therefore, to conform to U.S. export control regulations, applicant should be eligible for any required authorizations from the U.S. Government.

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