Top 3 Skills
1. SolarWinds & Datadog Network Monitoring / Observability
- Deep expertise implementing, configuring, and optimizing SolarWinds environments across large enterprise networks.
- Hands-on experience building dashboards, network maps, alerting frameworks, reporting, and dependency mapping.
- Strong understanding of monitoring best practices utilizing SolarWinds, Datadog, NetFlow, SNMP, SNMP Traps, Syslog, and ICMP.
- Experience creating proactive monitoring solutions that provide visibility across network, infrastructure, cloud, and application environments.
2. Cisco Network Engineering (Route/Switch)
- Strong background supporting enterprise Cisco environments including routing and switching technologies.
- Experience with BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, VLANs, STP, HSRP, EtherChannel, and WAN connectivity.
- Skilled in network troubleshooting, performance optimization, capacity planning, and root cause analysis across complex multi-site environments.
- Ability to leverage monitoring tools such as SolarWinds and Datadog to identify network bottlenecks, outages, and performance degradation before business impact occurs.
3. Network Security Engineering (Palo Alto Firewalls)
- Experience managing and monitoring enterprise security environments utilizing Palo Alto Firewalls.
- Strong understanding of security policies, NAT, VPNs, threat prevention, application filtering, URL filtering, and traffic analysis.
- Ability to integrate firewall monitoring and security visibility into SolarWinds and Datadog platforms to improve operational awareness and incident response.
- Experience collaborating with Security Operations and Infrastructure teams to maintain secure, highly available network environments.
