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.