Data Center Engineer - Infrastructure/Cloud

• Designs, delivers, and optimizes Virtual Infrastructure Services to improve security, availability, performance, and resource utilization;
• Reviews current virtual infrastructures, architectures, designs, and operations to identify potential improvements;
• Analyzes, refines, and documents the requirements for transition from legacy architectures into modern virtualized infrastructure environment;
• Designs and builds host & tenant environment with security hardened configuration for infrastructure services and designs ongoing maintenance practices and procedures for infrastructure hosted service patching and updates;
• Designs virtual Infrastructure services to maximize available capacity of physical compute, storage, and network hardware resources;
• Documents security, configuration, and performance benchmarks of Infrastructure Services;
• Designs production infrastructure services that support highly available, private cloud, active-active data center operations, within the constraints of the environment;
• Designs practices, procedures, Automation and Orchestration to provision, de-provision, and entitles Computer, Storage, and Network resources
• Identify infrastructure security-relevant actions, tests, and key performance indicators for Information Dashboard and Reporting;
• Designs 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;
• Develops the end-to-end vision and the logical design that translates into physical databases, and how the data will flow through the successive stages involved;
• Knowledgeable and practices a wider range of data administration skills, often in a Business Process Re-engineering context;
• Participates in strategic data planning, including development and implementation of 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 and data mining, data security administration, and formulation of enterprise-specific data metrics.

• LEVEL III: Bachelor's degree in a related field, with five (5) to eight (8) years’ experience is required; OR Masters degree in a related field with three (3) to five (5) years’ experience years of experience; OR PhD with zero (0) to two (2) years’ experience;
• LEVEL IV: Bachelor's degree in a related field, with (8) to ten (10) years’ experience is required; OR Masters degree in a related field with six (6) to eight (8) years’ experience years of experience; OR PhD with three (3) to five (5) years’ experience;
• Must have a current DoD 8570.1-M IAT Level III (i.e., CISSP GCIH,or GCIA) certification is required at start;
• Must possess an active TS/SCI clearance with SCI eligibility at start;
• 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 is required;
• Experience in VMware vCloud Enterprise Suite and hybrid cloud with multiple classified Government clouds is required;
• Professional-level Linux, VMware, Network, Storage, or Cloud certification is desired;
• ITILv4 Foundations certification is desired.

Established in 1995, Global Business Solutions, Inc. offers customers a distinctive blend of information technology capabilities, education and training services, and information assurance solutions. Managed by a team of executive leaders experienced in the field of information technology and training services within the industry and government, GBSI prides itself on exceeding expectations. Our award-winning solutions give clients the support tools needed to successfully deliver in evolving environments with confidence.

GBSI is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. All Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard for race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with a disability.

This Contractor and subcontractor shall abide by the requirements of 41 CFR-60-300.5(a). This regulation prohibits discrimination against qualified protected veterans, and requires affirmative action covered prime contractors and subcontractors to employ and advance in employment qualified protected veterans.

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We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.