Network Virtualization Engineer/Administrator - DoW

About the role

The successful candidate will support network build out and deployments to the C2BMC Test Facility as necessary to the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on the Integrated Research and Development for Enterprise Solutions (IRES) contract.

Responsibilities

• Provide root-cause analysis for recurring or critical problems.
• Work closely with a team of system administrators, network engineers, and cybersecurity administrators to maintain a high-quality test environment for the Government customer.
• Conduct daily system monitoring, system backup and restoration, and application upgrades to ensure optimal and continuous system operations.
• Document necessary system changes and actions in appropriate systems of record to ensure historical data is captured per customer and mission requirements.
• Advise Government customer on system status, optimization and improvement efforts in accordance with program objectives and design baselines as needed.
• Assist system administration team with the deployment of new virtual machines.
• Perform administration of virtualization environments to include troubleshooting, break/fix activities, the patching and remediation of servers, and system audit log reviews as needed.
• Have good written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated experience briefing customers and management.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of troubleshooting and configuration of VMware to include protocols and switching, best-practice configurations, connectivity, and networking concepts.
• Experience in Internet Protocols (e.g. DNS, HTTP, SMTP, SSL); Firewall configuration and troubleshooting; Multiple network types of telecommunications infrastructures.
• Effective communicator with excellent writing and presentation skills using Microsoft PowerPoint and Visio drawing tools.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment with other highly motivated network engineers as well as independently on large field projects.
• Deep understanding of Foundational VCF Infrastructure including Virtualization (vSphere), Networking (NSX) and Storage (vSAN).
• Experience with SDDC Manager to patch, upgrade and provide overall system maintenance.
• Fundamental understanding of how traffic flows through logical routers with the ability to implement these concepts in an NSX environment.
• Experience with distributed stateful firewalling, NAT, load balancing and micro segmentation using NSX.
• Experience with the design, installation, upgrading and migration of storage using VMware vSAN.
• Experience migrating virtual machines and workloads from deprecated versions of vSphere to VMware Cloud Foundation.
• Current DoW 8570 IAT Level II certification (Security+ CE, CySA, etc.) or higher.
• Active DoW Secret Security Clearance.

Qualifications

• At least 10 years of general (full-time) work experience.
• At least 5 years of directly related experience (can be a mix of Network and Virtualization).
• At least 1 year of experience working in a management or leadership role.
• Experience in Internet Protocols (e.g. DNS, HTTP, SMTP, SSL); Firewall configuration and troubleshooting; Multiple network types of telecommunications infrastructures.
• Effective communicator with excellent writing and presentation skills using Microsoft PowerPoint and Visio drawing tools.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment with other highly motivated network engineers as well as independently on large field projects.
• Deep understanding of Foundational VCF Infrastructure including Virtualization (vSphere), Networking (NSX) and Storage (vSAN).
• Experience with SDDC Manager to patch, upgrade and provide overall system maintenance.
• Fundamental understanding of how traffic flows through logical routers with the ability to implement these concepts in an NSX environment.
• Experience with distributed stateful firewalling, NAT, load balancing and micro segmentation using NSX.
• Experience with the design, installation, upgrading and migration of storage using VMware vSAN.
• Experience migrating virtual machines and workloads from deprecated versions of vSphere to VMware Cloud Foundation.
• Current DoW 8570 IAT Level II certification (Security+ CE, CySA, etc.) or higher.
• Active DoW Secret Security Clearance.