System Engineer SME

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  for prose. No markdown fences. No html/body tags. Remove boilerplate, navigation, legal, EEO, etc. Keep substantive info: responsibilities, qualifications, skills, benefits, pay, schedule, etc. Must include sections only if posting has real specific content. We need to parse the job description. Key sections: - Job Description (intro paragraph): "Advance how our customers operate while you advance your career. Join GDIT as a Systems Sr Engineer SR Principal and build an impactful career in enterprise IT, collaborating with people who are driven and resourceful like you." - "MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT" paragraph: description of role. - Responsibilities: list of duties after that paragraph: "Responsibilities include the evaluation, design, implementation and support of Microsoft Windows based servers and enterprise applications including: Active Directory, Group Policy, Windows Clustering, Exchange, and Skype for Business Server. Design, configure, implement and support fiber channel networks. Provide tier 3 systems support. Must be self-motivated and have a capacity to determine the correct course of action on their own, as well as work through issues with minimal help from others. As the lead/senior systems engineer, performs design of server and application architectures. Performs the administrative operation and maintenance of server hardware and software. Maintains system security and executes practices and procedures, monitors usage statistics and logs, monitors and remedies attempts to penetrate or corrupt server files. Maintains baseline configurations and performs modification of configuration settings. Institutes troubleshooting and incident response procedures. Troubleshoots system related problems. Provides team leadership and guidance to less experienced administrators. Responsible for the training, motivation, discipline and performance evaluation of assigned employees. Remains current in operating systems/software analysis and technological developments and applications. Recommends future direction or projects to management. Provides expertise and direction in the development or modification of software programs and applications to enhance an operating system." - "WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED" heading: then list of Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities: bullet points. - "Required Experience: 10+ years of total experience 4+ years of experience with Microsoft Windows Server 2016 and 2019 2+ years of experience with Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 2+ years of experience with Microsoft SharePoint Server 2019 2+ years of experience with Microsoft Skype for Business 2019 4+ years of experience with VMware vSphere, Realize Suite, VCF 2+ years of experience with VMware Workspace ONE 2+ years of experience with Cisco networking" - "Required Education/Certifications: BA/BS (Additional Education, Certifications, Training or Work experience can be substituted for the Degree or Work Experience.) 8570 / 8140 qualified Desired Certifications: ITIL Certification Security clearance level:TS/SCI Required US citizenship required" - "GDIT IS YOUR PLACE" paragraph: Growth, Support, Rewards, Community. - "The likely salary range for this position is $119,000 - $161,000. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range." - "Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 Travel Required: 10-25% Telecommuting Options: Onsite Work Location: USA NC Fort Bragg Additional Work Locations:" - "Total Rewards At GDIT: Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most." - "Our Identity Verification Process: ..." This is boilerplate? Might be considered legal/privacy; but it's about identity verification. The instruction says remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate. Identity verification could be considered legal? Might be borderline. Probably remove. - "About Our Work: ..." This is company description; could be considered boilerplate? Might be okay to keep? It's not a standard boilerplate but could be considered generic. The instruction: remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. "About Our Work" is not those; but it's generic marketing. Might keep? However, we prefer few substantive sections. Could include as "About the Company" but not required. Might drop to keep concise. We need headings: Use

  for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). We need to decide which sections to include. We have: - About the role (intro paragraph) maybe "About the role". - Responsibilities. - Requirements/Qualifications/Skills: Could combine into "Qualifications" or "Skills". The instruction: prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we could have sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Qualifications, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Qualifications could include required experience, education/certifications, security clearance, US citizenship, desired certifications. Skills could be part of Qualifications. We need to use

  • for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. We need to preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we must keep specifics like years of experience, specific technologies, salary range, hours, travel, etc. We must not include headings with filler like "commensurate with experience". Avoid empty sections. We need to output only HTML fragment. Let's craft:

    About the role

    Advance how our customers operate while you advance your career. Join GDIT as a Systems Sr Engineer SR Principal and build an impactful career in enterprise IT, collaborating with people who are driven and resourceful like you. As a Systems Engineer Sr Principal, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be critically impactful to the mission. You will play a crucial role in providing senior level administration and engineering support of Windows based network systems.

    Then responsibilities list. We need to capture responsibilities as list items. The paragraph includes many duties; we can break into list items. Let's extract each duty sentence: - evaluation, design, implementation and support of Microsoft Windows based servers and enterprise applications including: Active Directory, Group Policy, Windows Clustering, Exchange, and Skype for Business Server. - Design, configure, implement and support fiber channel networks. - Provide tier 3 systems support. - Must be self-motivated and have a capacity to determine the correct course of action on their own, as well as work through issues with minimal help from others. - As the lead/senior systems engineer, performs design of server and application architectures. - Performs the administrative operation and maintenance of server hardware and software. - Maintains system security and executes practices and procedures, monitors usage statistics and logs, monitors and remedies attempts to penetrate or corrupt server files. - Maintains baseline configurations and performs modification of configuration settings. - Institutes troubleshooting and incident response procedures. - Troubleshoots system related problems. - Provides team leadership and guidance to less experienced administrators. - Responsible for the training, motivation, discipline and performance evaluation of assigned employees. - Remains current in operating systems/software analysis and technological developments and applications. - Recommends future direction or projects to management. - Provides expertise and direction in the development or modification of software programs and applications to enhance an operating system. We can put each as
  • . Now Qualifications section: combine required experience, education/certifications, security clearance, US citizenship, desired certifications. We need to list as
    • . Let's list: - Active Directory (AD), Enterprise IT, Microsoft Windows Server, Systems Design, VMware (skills) maybe under Skills but we can include in Qualifications. But we have a separate Skills heading possible. However we prefer few sections. Could have Qualifications covering experience, education, certifications, clearance, citizenship, and Skills covering technical skills list. But we might combine into one Qualifications section with sublists? The instruction: use
      • for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we can have multiple lists. We could have:

        Qualifications

        Required:

        • 10+ years of related experience
        • 4+ years of experience with Microsoft Windows Server 2016 and 2019
        • 2+ years of experience with Microsoft Exchange Server 2016
        • 2+ years of experience with Microsoft SharePoint Server 2019
        • 2+ years of experience with Microsoft Skype for Business 2019
        • 4+ years of experience with VMware vSphere, Realize Suite, VCF
        • 2+ years of experience with VMware Workspace ONE
        • 2+ years of experience with Cisco networking
        • BA/BS degree (additional education, certifications, training or work experience can be substituted)
        • 8570 / 8140 qualified
        • ITIL Certification (desired)
        • Top Secret/SCI security clearance required
        • US citizenship required
        But we also have skills list: Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities: includes many items like Experience with MS Exchange and Unified Communications applications (Lync/Skype/Teams), Extensive experience in Microsoft Active Directory administration to include Group Policy Management, DNS, DHCP, and Identity & Credential Management, Familiarization with Azure Active Directory and experience with extending Microsoft services to support Hybrid Multi-Cloud (On-Prem, Azure, AWS), Strong experience with server virtualization (VMWare 6.7x, 7.x, and soon 8.x and Microsoft Hyper-V) and VMWare Cloud Foundation, VMWare Horizon, VMWare Site Recovery Manager, VMWare vSphere engineering in regards to supporting hybrid cloud and systems architecting to provide High Availability and Geographic Redundancy, AVI load balancers, NSX, and vSAN are highly encouraged along with integration with Dell VXRail, Experience with management of Storage Area Networking environments (NetApps FAS and AFF arrays, Pure Flashblade, and vSan technologies), Experience with Enterprise-Level backup and restoration concepts and products, Detail oriented and organized; able to understand information systems and ensure accuracy of work, Reviews the work of others and is able to detect errors or needed modifications, Competent to work at a high technical level on all phases of systems engineering activities, Excellent communication and briefing skills; shows tact, effective listening skills and follow through, Solid work ethic and the ability to work in a mission critical environment, Provides technical guidance, leadership, and mentoring to engineers with less experience. We could put these under a

        Skills

        list. But we already have many items in Qualifications; maybe we can merge Skills into Qualifications as they are also requirements. However the instruction says prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. Having both Qualifications and Skills may be thin if they overlap. Could combine into one "Requirements" section that includes experience, education, cert