Network Monitoring Engineer

Top Skills' Details
1. Monitoring Platform Ownership & Engineering
*Own the design, implementation, and lifecycle management of NPM platforms (e.g., SevOne, flow analytics, telemetry collectors)
*Lead platform upgrades, patching, and capacity management.
*Ensure platform health, scalability, and performance SLAs
*Define and enforce standards for monitoring architecture, onboarding, and usage
2. Telemetry & Data Collection Strategy:
*Design and manage network telemetry pipelines: SNMP, NetFlow/sFlow/IPFIX
*Establish standards for: KPI Definitions (latency, packet loss, throughput, errors). Data retention & granularity.
*Ensure complete and accurate network visibility across all environments
3. Alerting, Detection & Signal Quality
*Own alert strategy & engineering: Thresholds, baselines, anomaly detection. Noise reduction and deduplication.
*Define and maintain network-specific alert policies and routing
*Continuously improve signal-to-noise ratio
4. Network Performance Analysis & Optimization
*Perform deep analysis of network performance issues: Latency, packet loss, congestion, routing anomalies
*Drive root cause analysis (RCA) for high-severity incidents
*Identify and execute performance improvement opportunities
*Support capacity planning and forecasting
5. Dashboarding, Reporting & Observability Integration
*Build and maintain: Operational, Executive dashboards (trends, SLA reporting)
*Enable cross-domain correlation (network ? application ? infrastructure)
*Integrate with enterprise observability platforms (e.g., Dynatrace, ITOM)
6. Incident Response & Operational Support
*Lead or support network-related incident triage and resolution
*Act as SME for network signals during major incidents
*Define and improve incident response playbooks
*Partner with Network Engineering to separate: Tool issues vs. actual network faults
7. Device & Coverage Management:
*Ensure full monitoring coverage across: Routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, WAN edges, cloud networking.
*Oversee: Device onboarding and modeling. Metric completeness and accuracy.
*Identify and eliminate monitoring blind spots
8. Governance, Standards & Compliance
*Define & enforce: Monitoring standards. Naming conventions, tagging, metadata.
*Support audit, risk, and regulatory requirements
*Ensure monitoring tools meet enterprise architecture and compliance expectations
9. Cross-Team Collaboration & Enablement
*Partner with: Network Engineering (signal validation, device ownership). SRE / Observability (correlation, automation). Application teams (impact analysis).
*Provide guidance and onboarding support to teams adopting NPM capabilities.
*Help define clear ownership boundaries (tool vs domain).
10. Automation & Continuous Improvement
*Automate: Device onboarding, Alert tuning, Reporting and dashboards.
*Drive self-healing and proactive remediation use cases
*Continuously improve: MTTR / MTTD, Monitoring coverage, Operational efficiency.
Work Environment
This position will require onsite in Buffalo, NY 4 days per week.
Job Type & Location
This is a Contract position based out of Buffalo, NY.
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $55.98 - $93.29/hr.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following:
Medical, dental & vision
Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
Short and long-term disability
Health Spending Account (HSA)
Transportation benefits
Employee Assistance Program
Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
Workplace Type
This is a fully onsite position in Buffalo,NY.
Application Deadline
This position is anticipated to close on Jul 10, 2026.

About TEKsystems

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

About TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services

We're a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. We're a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. We're strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. We're building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

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