Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Secret required

About the role

The Senior Infrastructure Engineer will serve as a technology expert, overseeing the design, documentation, implementation, and management of IT services for a cloud deployed capability. They will manage highly available and secure services between cloud deployed software and cloud collaboration services, and be responsible for setting up and/or maintaining development lab environments that mirror production systems.

Responsibilities

• Designs cloud infrastructure, virtual private cloud, virtual private network, relational database services, auto-scaling, and compute resources to meet customer requirements.
• Responsible for setting up and maintaining development lab environments that mirror production systems, ensuring they are current with industry standards.
• Provides guidance on installation, configuration, and maintenance of virtual hosts, operating systems, applications, and databases.
• Develops and presents IT infrastructure standard operating procedures to senior management.
• Maintains ownership of high availability, high-security IT operations. Reviews and approves periodic status updates on scheduled maintenance and upgrades of all infrastructure systems.
• Troubleshoots operating systems, network, storage, identity, virtualization, software, and application issues to identify bottlenecks in operations and provides recommendations for optimum performance and continuity of critical systems.
• Collaborates with enterprise architecture teams and other stakeholders to determine enterprise tools, technologies, and processes. Establishes corporate cloud computing architecture policies and standards in compliance with NIST, FISMA, FIPS, OMB, and FedRAMP.

Requirements

Security clearance level: Active Secret
Certification: IAT Level II certification (i.e. Security+ CE or equivalent)
Education: Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Computer Science or equivalent field
Experience: 8+ years of related experience
Technical skills: Prior DoW experience is required, DISA experience is a plus. Experience with DoW Cloud Environments (IL4/IL5/IL6), including MS Office 365, and classified and unclassified networks. Experience designing and implementing Azure cloud resources, database services, auto scaling, and automation to meet customers’ requirements. Expertise in implementing Azure architectures, ideally for DoW customers, including the following: Azure Active Directory, ADFS, Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings, Windows Server, Azure Networking, Implementing DoW security guidance for above Identity and directory services integration and troubleshooting Windows/Linux OS hardening/patching/administration/configuration/automation per DISA STIG Guidelines. Collaboration on configuration changes using a distributed revision control system (i.e., Git).

Qualifications

Documentations, Enterprise IT, Information Technology Operations, Microsoft Office, Private Clouds

Skills

• CompTIA Security+ CE | CompTIA

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off

Pay

$131,750 - $178,250

Schedule

Hybrid - reporting onsite in either Chantilly, VA or Ft. Meade, MD several days a week.