About Our Company:
At Cypher Analytics, we take immense pride in being 100% employee-owned! Our unique structure fosters a collaborative and innovative environment where everyone's contributions matter. We share a passion for excellence, teamwork, and driving meaningful results for our clients. Joining us means becoming an integral part of a supportive and empowering community.
Position Summary:
We are seeking a Systems Engineer for our team to directly support national defense missions by leading the engineering, deployment, and continuous improvement of our SolarWinds network monitoring infrastructure. You will design and evolve enterprise scale monitoring solutions, collaborate with architects and engineers across adjacent technologies, and support modernization initiatives in cloud, automation, and datacenter operations. This role includes hands on engineering, documentation, training delivery, and subject matter expertise across SolarWinds Orion systems.
Hybrid role in San Diego, CA.
Basic Qualifications:
- Active Secret Clearance is required at time of hire.
- High school diploma or GED
- IAT Level II certification: Requires both an IA Certification (e.g., Security+ CE, or higher) *AND* an Operating Environment (OE) Certification (e.g., Windows OS certification, CCNA, SolarWinds, etc.) for CSWF compliance.
- 5+ years designing and implementing technologies supporting monitoring and automation of enterprise datacenters.
- 5+ years managing a Windows Server–based IT infrastructure.
- 3+ years hands on experience engineering, designing, implementing, and maintaining SolarWinds Orion Platform products.
- 3+ years managing IT infrastructure solutions mid to enterprise scale networks.
- 2+ years experience in an operations role supporting infrastructure, monitoring, or datacenter systems.
- Experience architecting, designing, securing, installing, troubleshooting, and documenting integrated server or network solutions.
- Ability to support on site delivery and collaborate with government stakeholders minimum 2 day per week, with potential expansion as directed by the client.
- Ability to perform OCONUS Travel (typically 1-3 weeks trip duration, up to approx. 3 times a year, planned 3+months in advance).
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience with enterprise server, storage, networking, and software platforms, or equivalent specialization on a major technology stack.
- Experience with virtualization technologies (VMware, Hyper‑V).
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Experience with Python and PowerShell scripting for automation.
- Experience with network engineering or enterprise network operations.
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or Engineering.
- CASP or CISSP certification.
Responsibilities:
- Architect, design, implement, configure, and maintain SolarWinds Orion Platform components, including: NPM, SAM, NCM, SRM, IPAM, WPM, NTA, and VMAN.
- Engineer scalable monitoring solutions for mid to enterprise scale networks and hybrid datacenter environments.
- Integrate SolarWinds with Splunk, VMware, Windows Server, Linux, and other ecosystem technologies.
- Troubleshoot performance, configuration, and monitoring issues across the enterprise.
- Develop and maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, solution guidelines, and SOPs.
- Provide training and hands-on knowledge transfer to operations teams.
- Serve as the SolarWinds SME for monitoring strategy, capability development, and platform lifecycle optimization.
- Collaborate on site with government stakeholders at least two days per week (with potential for expanded on-site support based on client requirements).
Cypher Analytics offers to eligible employees:
- Employee Covered Medical, Dental, LTD, and Life Insurance
- 401(k) Matching and Employee Stock Ownership Program
- Training and Teambuilding Events
- Annual Tuition Reimbursement, Certification and Training Reimbursement
Pay: $130,000.00 - $180,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Professional development assistance
- Referral program
- Retirement plan
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
Security clearance:
- Secret (Required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in San Diego, CA 92110