SCOM Expert

Overview:
Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. (SPA) is a well-established and progressive defense contracting company in the Northern Virginia area just a few miles south of the Pentagon. We are a professional services firm established in 1972 that has a long-standing reputation for unrivaled technical and analytical support to some of the top decision makers in the Federal Sector. We do state of the art work and have a cadre of outstanding professionals on our team.

SPA has an immediate need for a SCOM Expert to provide contracting services to NATO.

**Responsibilities**:

- Upgrade/reinstall existing SCOM instances to the latest level;
- Install and configure SCOM servers to enable monitoring across different Active Directory domains;
- Administers SCOM(Microsoft System Centre Operations Manager) systems;
- Tune the SCOM configuration to prevent false-positive alerts;
- Take necessary actions to ensure all elements of IT services are monitored;
- Monitor the SCOM environments and take appropriate actions;
- Investigates and resolves issues in a systematic approach;
- Performs other duties as may be required

Qualifications:
**Required Qualifications**:

- Current in-depth knowledge and practical work experience of SCOM(Microsoft System Centre Operations Manager) in a large scale LAN-based client-server environment;
- Recent experience on design, installation and maintenance of SCOM environments over multiple Active Directory domains;
- In-depth knowledge of installation and configuration of SCOM management packs;
- Experience with configuring monitoring of Linux based systems with SCOM;
- Ability to quickly analyse and implement third party SCOM management packs;
- Excellent troubleshooting skills
- National of one of the 30 NATO countries
- In possession of an active National and/or NATO Secret security clearance