Infrastructure Engineering Lead

Infrastructure Engineering Lead Huntsville, AL - onsite Top Secret clearance is required to start Salary: Up to $176K ALTA IT Services is seeking a highly skilled and knowledgeable Infrastructure Engineering Lead that is responsible for maintaining system administration, identity and authentication, information system security accreditation, data storage and backup, physical infrastructure maintenance, and automation development, as well as system security and environment ATOs. This position is located on customer site in Huntsville, AL. Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
• Accountable for system administration, identity and authentication, information system security accreditation, data storage and backup, physical infrastructure maintenance, and automation development.
• Enhance system operations through the design, development, and sustainment of new and existing system functionality to support configuration management, automated building, automated testing, automated deployment, and automated monitoring and notification.
• Design, implement, and support the Networking Infrastructure within and between data centers.
• Build new baselines with the appropriate security and access controls to include DISA STIGS and required security controls; develop and maintain security documentation for ATOs of the environment.
• Create and maintain network infrastructure for both bare-metal and virtual machines with the appropriate LAN, WAN, vLAN, SDN, firewall and load balancer configurations, using both OEM and third-party tools that include virtual network tools (NSX) and services.
• Monitor and test application performance, and correct any bottlenecks or network issues and create recovery processes for failures and performance bottlenecks. Provide real time alerts for network problem issues and implement proactive solutions for future problems to include re-design or tech refresh.
• Develop and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and increase automation of tasks. Provide real time reporting of provisioned and non-provisioned resources such as bandwidth utilized to include performance metrics for availability, performance, and trends. Basic Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree, preferably in IT, Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related discipline.
• 10+ years of IT experience with a minimum of 3 years leading a team of infrastructure engineers and administrators.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with MS Windows OS and MS AD.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with NIST 800x special publications (e.g. NIST SP 800-53, NIST SP 800-37), FISMA and RMF guidelines.
• Hands-on experience with DNS, DHCP, LDAP, SMTP, and NTP.
• Possess either a Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) certification or Microsoft Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate certification. Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience with system accreditation and authorization (A&A/ATO) process.
• Experience with GRC tools (RiskVision, Xacta and JCAM).
• Experience with VMWare vSphere 7.
• Cisco Network experience.
• Dell Server experience.
• Dell SAN Storage hardware experience.
• VMware Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). Ref: (ALTA IT) System One, and its subsidiaries including Joulé, ALTA IT Services, TeamPeople, and Mountain Ltd., are leaders in delivering outsourced services and workforce solutions across North America. We help clients get work done more efficiently and economically, without compromising quality. System One not only serves as a valued partner for our clients, but we offer eligible employees health and welfare benefits coverage options including medical, dental, vision, spending accounts, life insurance, voluntary plans, as well as participation in a 401(k) plan. System One is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, family care or medical leave status, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.