Data Center Engineer (VDI) with TS/SCI

Position Description

Our client is seeking a Data Center Engineer (VDI) for a role supporting the Department of the Navy in Annapolis Junction, MD. The ideal candidate must hold an active TS/SCI clearance and have 8 to 10 years of experience with a BS/BA or, 6 to 8 years with a MS/MA, or 3 to 5 years with a PhD. They must also have 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. A current DoD 8570.1-M IAT Level III certification is required.

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

Position Qualifications

• 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