What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Infrastructure/Platform Service Engineer - NISSC II position at INNOVIM?
INNOVIM is seeking a Lead Infrastructure/Platform Service Engineer to support North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) on the Integrated Tactical Warning/Attack Assessment (ITW/AA) and Space Support Contract II (NISSC II).
The work location is onsite in Colorado Springs, CO.
The job CLOSES on 1/5/25 at 11:59 PM MST
The candidate will:
- Technical team lead of system administrators and automation engineers
- Install and maintain VMware visualization environments
- Install and maintain Kubernetes-based orchestration platforms
- Implement and maintain a Centralized Identity and Access Management (IDAM) solution
- Install and configure Red Hat Satellite services
- Integrate Red Hat Satellite with VMware products
- Examine current server configurations and scaling as necessary
- Configure Ansible to integrate with Satellite server
- Configure Ansible to integrate with VMware Cloud Foundation and Aria Automation
- Ensure security compliance of Red Hat and Windows systems through Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG) and patching CVEs
- Deploy virtual machine STIG templates
- Design, provision, manage, and monitor systems and infrastructure
- Proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability
- Provide 2nd and 3rd tier support to mission partners
- Coordinate with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution
- Work to mature and further develop IT standards and processes
- Research and propose new technology options and methodologies
Basic Requirements:
- Clearance: Active DoD Secret Security Clearance
- IAT Level II Certification (CCNA-Security, CySA , GICSP, GSEC, Security CE, CND, SSCP)
- 12 years or more of IT experience
- 14 years of general work experience
- 3 or more years’ experience leading an Engineering Team
- Experience with isolating issues and apply troubleshooting methodologies to repair, document and prevent issues
- Experience with managing deployment, configuration, upgrades, and patch systems
- Experience and in-depth understanding of VMware vSphere and vCenter
- Experience with: Installing and hardening Kubernetes-based orchestration platform.
Desired Requirements:
- Experience with CI/CD systems, GitOps, Terraform, Packer, Bamboo, etc.
- Knowledge of information assurance compliance to specified standards, including DoD STIGs and ICD 50
- Experience designing, building and deploying DevSecOps pipelines with Bitbucket, Git, Bamboo, Artifactory (or equivalent tools)
- Experience designing and implementing application deployment pipelines and developing software in a containerized environment with Kubernetes and Docker. Specific experience with Tanzu preferred
- Full software life-cycle automation experience (design, development, test, deployment), including deployment to a production environment.
- Experience with Atlassian tools, including Bitbucket integrations with JIRA and Confluence
- Experience managing and providing redundant deployments with several native Linux services like NFS, FTP, DNS, NTP, LVM etc.
- Solid understanding of the fundamentals of providing Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a service
INNOVIM is committed to providing superior work in the fields of science, engineering, data analytics and technology to government agencies. We offer competitive compensation packages, including comprehensive nationwide Medical/Dental/Vision insurance programs, life insurance, matching 401k contribution and Educational/Training support.
