Data Center Engineer (VDI)

Veteran-Owned Firm Seeking a Data Center Engineer (VDI) with TS/SCI for a role in Annapolis Junction, MD

My name is Stephen Hrutka. I lead a Veteran-Owned management consulting firm in Washington, DC. We specialize in Technical and Cleared Recruiting for the Department of Defense (DoD), the Intelligence Community (IC), and other advanced defense agencies.

At HRUCKUS, we support fellow Veteran-Owned businesses by helping them recruit for positions across organizations such as the VA, SBA, HHS, DARPA, and other leading-edge R&D-focused defense agencies.

We seek to fill a Data Center Engineer (VDI) position in Annapolis Junction, MD.

The ideal candidate must hold an active TS/SCI clearance and have 5-8 years of experience with a BS/BA, 3-5 years with an MS/MA, or 0-2 years with a PhD. They must also have 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. A current DoD 8570.1-M IAT Level III certification is required.

If you’re interested, I'll gladly provide more details about the role and discuss your qualifications further.

Thanks,

Stephen M Hrutka

Principal Consultant

HRUCKUS LLC

Executive Summary: HRUCKUS seeks a Data Center Engineer (VDI) for a role supporting the Department of the Navy in Annapolis Junction, MD.

Position Description: The Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) - Data Center Engineer will provide infrastructure engineering for periodic data center refreshes and/or new data center technologies, including future cloud capabilities.

Position Job Duties:

• Design, deliver, and optimize Infrastructure Services to improve security, availability, performance, and resource utilization in the data centers
• Review current infrastructures, architectures, designs, and operations to identify potential improvements
• Analyze, refine, and document the requirements for transition from legacy hardware into modern data center infrastructure environment
• Design and build host & tenant environments with security-hardened configurations for infrastructure services and design ongoing maintenance practices and procedures for infrastructure-hosted service patching and updates
• Design virtual Infrastructure services to maximize the available capacity of physical computing, storage, and network hardware resources
• Document security, configuration, and performance benchmarks of Infrastructure Services
• Design production infrastructure services that support highly available, private cloud, active-active data center operations within the constraints of the environment
• Design practices, procedures, Automation, and Orchestration to provision, de-provision, and entitle Compute, Storage, and Network resources
• Identify infrastructure security-relevant actions, tests, and key performance indicators for Information Dashboard and Reporting
• Design 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
• Develop the end-to-end vision and logical design that translate into physical databases and how the data will flow through the successive stages involved
• Knowledgeable and practices a broader range of data administration skills, often in a Business Process Reengineering context
• Participates in strategic data planning, including developing and implementing 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, data mining, data security administration, and formulation of enterprise-specific data metrics

Position Qualifications:

• TS/SCI level clearance is required
• Requires 5 to 8 years with BS/BA, 3 to 5 years with MS/MA, or 0 to 2 years with a PhD
• 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
• Experience in VMware vCloud Enterprise Suite and hybrid cloud with multiple classified Government clouds

Certification Requirement:

• Must have a current DoD 8570.1-M IAT Level III certification

Desired:

• Professional-level Linux, VMware, Network, Storage, or Cloud certifications desired
• ITIL Foundations certification desired

Details:

• Job Title: Data Center Engineer (VDI)
• 3 Site Locations:
• Annapolis Junction, MD (Primary)
• JBAB (Depends on Responsibilities)
• Landover, MD (Future)
• Security Clearance Requirement: TS/SCI
• Assignment Type: Full-time
• Salary: Up to $167,000.