Data Center Infrastructure Engineer

About the role

Join our team supporting a cutting-edge Cyber Program and make an impact by guiding the definition, implementation, and delivery of capability focused on U.S. CYBER COMMANDS (USCYBERCOM) Persistent Cyber Training Environment (PCTE).

Responsibilities

• Provide support with the design, implementation, operation, and maintenance of full stack data center infrastructure, including but not limited to: Compute, Storage, Networking, Power, Cabling, Racking, Virtualization, Containerization and physical facility infrastructure.
• Perform as a technical team member of Engineers in the maintenance (technical including VMware, Micro-Services, Networking, Security Services, etc.) of the platform and ensuring continuity of operations for our End Users.
• Foster a relationship of trust with our customers and the current in place technical staff.
• Network Maintenance: Automate, collect, process, and present, system performance, and other metric information to show improvements or degradation over time. Balance hybrid cloud distribution between private corporate infrastructure and public clouds.
• Work as part of a fast moving highly diverse team across multiple projects simultaneously.
• Team Leader: Contribute as part of a high performing team in an Agile development and execution paradigm providing insight into taskings to both the team and customer via Jira and Confluence.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s degree and five (5) or more years of experience in a relevant field. Additional experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
• Interpersonal and Communications Skills: Effective interpersonal and communications skills to convey and present system performance info, to mentor colleagues, and to interface effectively with vendors, customers, and team partners.
• Development Experience: Well-versed with Linux system management, specifically with Red Hat OS including Identity Management (IdM) and Single Sign On (SSO). Experience with scripting (Ansible, Python, Bash, Puppet, PowerShell).
• Software/Network Development: Understanding of Cisco networking technologies such as the following. Switching (Cisco Nexus (7k’s, 5k’s, 2k’s, 9k’s, Catalyst 4k’s, VLAN’s, STP, RSTP, VPC, VPC+, OTV, VXLAN)), Routing technologies (ASR, ISRG2, EIGRP, BGP, redistribution, summarization), IP (IPV4 & IPV6, NAT, ACL’s, DNS, DHCP), Multicast protocols (PIM SM/DM/SSM), and Cisco IOS. Experience with F5 / BIG IP physical and virtual network devices.
• Security Clearance: Active Secret clearance, with an ability to obtain a TS/SCI Security Clearance.

Qualifications

• Experience with Ansible (or similar) infrastructure automation to deploy and configure standard baselines for physical devices and in a virtual environment (VMware and Linux).
• Utilize scripting for automating tasks, administration, data collection and reporting.
• Able to audit and report system and performance logs.
• Able to automate, administer and maintain the environment through configuration management, version control, and backups with the use of scripting.
• Able to research and/or implement new technologies.
• Professionally convey system-wide performance information routinely via tools such as PowerPoint, Excel, Visio, etc.
• Examine any relevant change implementation, then report the changes to developers and testers welcoming feedback for future improvements.
• Knowledge of or experience with the DoD Risk Management Framework (RMF) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) or similar best practices and security guidelines.
• Knowledge of or experience with managing, provisioning, deploying, and orchestrating infrastructure specifications through Infrastructure as Code (IaC) platforms such as Ansible and/or Terraform.

Skills

• Linux system management, specifically with Red Hat OS including Identity Management (IdM) and Single Sign On (SSO).
• Scripting (Ansible, Python, Bash, Puppet, PowerShell).
• Cisco networking technologies such as the following. Switching (Cisco Nexus (7k’s, 5k’s, 2k’s, 9k’s, Catalyst 4k’s, VLAN’s, STP, RSTP, VPC, VPC+, OTV, VXLAN)), Routing technologies (ASR, ISRG2, EIGRP, BGP, redistribution, summarization), IP (IPV4 & IPV6, NAT, ACL’s, DNS, DHCP), Multicast protocols (PIM SM/DM/SSM), and Cisco IOS.
• Understanding of F5 / BIG IP physical and virtual network devices.
• Automation and scripting for system performance monitoring and reporting.
• Knowledge of the DoD Risk Management Framework (RMF) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) or similar best practices and security guidelines.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) platforms such as Ansible and/or Terraform.

Benefits

At Leidos, we offer competitive benefits, including Paid Time Off, 11 paid Holidays, 401K with a 6% company match and immediate vesting, Flexible Schedules, Discounted Stock Purchase Plans, Technical Upskilling, Education and Training Support, Parental Paid Leave, and much more.

Pay

$73,450.00 - $132,775.00

Schedule

Not specified