Source One is a staffing services company and we're currently looking for the following individual to work as a permanent employee of our direct client, a government agency supporting the Department of the Navy in Annapolis Junction, MD.
No sponsorships or C2C
Title: Data Center Engineer (VDI) with TS/SCI
Salary: $167,000 per year
Position Description:
The Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) - Data Center Engineer will provide infrastructure engineering for periodic data center refreshes and/or new data center technologies, including future cloud capabilities.
Position Job Duties:
- Design, deliver, and optimize Infrastructure Services to improve security, availability, performance, and resource utilization in the data centers
- Review current infrastructures, architectures, designs, and operations to identify potential improvements
- Analyze, refine, and document the requirements for transition from legacy hardware into modern data center infrastructure environment
- Design and build host & tenant environments with security-hardened configurations for infrastructure services and design ongoing maintenance practices and procedures for infrastructure-hosted service patching and updates
- Design virtual Infrastructure services to maximize the available capacity of physical computing, storage, and network hardware resources
- Document security, configuration, and performance benchmarks of Infrastructure Services
- Design production infrastructure services that support highly available, private cloud, active-active data center operations within the constraints of the environment
- Design practices, procedures, Automation, and Orchestration to provision, de-provision, and entitle Compute, Storage, and Network resources
- Identify infrastructure security-relevant actions, tests, and key performance indicators for Information Dashboard and Reporting
- Design Service Catalog Items for Infrastructure Services for business and IT technical services
- Provides advanced technical support in the research, experimentation, business analysis, and use of systems technology, including architecture, integration capabilities, and database management
- Develop the end-to-end vision and logical design that translate into physical databases and how the data will flow through the successive stages involved
- Knowledgeable and practices a broader range of data administration skills, often in a Business Process Reengineering context
- Participates in strategic data planning, including developing and implementing DA policies, standards, and procedures
- Understands data from the perspective of data processing and in the context of different life-cycle phases
- Activities may include data quality engineering, metadata consolidation and integration, metamodel development and maintenance, repository management, data warehouse design, data mining, data security administration, and formulation of enterprise-specific data metrics
Languages: English (Native or bilingual proficiency)
Experience required:
- TS/SCI level clearance is required
- 8 to 10 years of experience with a BS/BA, 6 to 8 years with an MS/MA, or 3 to 5 years with a PhD
- Experience in Infrastructure/Datacenter engineering and integration for both physical and virtual infrastructure hosting one or more Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, Solaris, UNIX, and/or AIX systems
- Experience in VMware vCloud Enterprise Suite and hybrid cloud with multiple classified Government clouds
Certification Requirement:
- Must have a current DoD 8570.1-M IAT Level III certification
Desired:
- Professional-level Linux, VMware, Network, Storage, or Cloud certifications desired
- ITIL Foundations certification desired