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Job Summary:
JCS Solutions has a need for a Systems Engineer to join our growing Defense Enclave Services (DES) team at Ft. Meade, MD. The DES program is a highly demanding mission and requires expert technical and professional management to support DISA's enterprise Information Technology (IT) services. You will be supporting a large and complex IT discovery, design, and migration effort towards a Single Service Provider model for the Department of Defense. This role will include discovery, analysis, and design activities required to migrate common IT services from multiple large-scale DoD agencies into DoDNet. This position offers an excellent opportunity to be part of a high-performing team responsible for supporting a high-velocity collaborative environment, along with tremendous growth potential. If you are interested in a challenge and a great working environment, apply today!
What’s in it for you:
The specific duties include but are not necessarily limited to the following:
We are a learning organization that promotes a work culture of collaboration, inclusiveness, inspiration and innovation.
JCS has been certified as a Great Place to Work four years in a row and was awarded as Washington Post’s Top Places to Work for 2024.
Our employees embody our core values, and we are looking for others who do too!
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Job Summary:
JCS Solutions has a need for a Systems Engineer to join our growing Defense Enclave Services (DES) team at Ft. Meade, MD. The DES program is a highly demanding mission and requires expert technical and professional management to support DISA's enterprise Information Technology (IT) services. You will be supporting a large and complex IT discovery, design, and migration effort towards a Single Service Provider model for the Department of Defense. This role will include discovery, analysis, and design activities required to migrate common IT services from multiple large-scale DoD agencies into DoDNet. This position offers an excellent opportunity to be part of a high-performing team responsible for supporting a high-velocity collaborative environment, along with tremendous growth potential. If you are interested in a challenge and a great working environment, apply today!
What’s in it for you:
- Join a premier technology firm specializing in innovative solutions
- Be part of a collaborative, inclusive, and innovative work culture
- Enjoy tremendous growth potential in a high-performing team environment
- A robust benefits package:
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Short-and-long term disability
- Paid time off (PTO)
- 401k retirement plan with employer match
- Annual Professional Development Reimbursement Program
- And more!
The specific duties include but are not necessarily limited to the following:
- Document existing infrastructure configuration, requirements, and overall architecture. Work with various stakeholders to produce high level and detailed designs for existing infrastructure. Identify areas for improvement
- Develop plan to migrate current infrastructure into singular architecture and develop hardware procurement plan needed for migration
- Design solutions, integrate, configure, test, and deploy numerous types of server-based applications based on Windows, Linux operating systems deployed on various virtualization platforms and cloud environments
- Optimize end-to-end system performance and migration workflows
- Conduct data captures to obtain computing performance and system configuration information
- Define migration plans that accelerate execution and minimize impact to the user community
- Establish migration plans for complex n-tier applications and services
- Gather needed data to forecast long-term capacity and performance requirements
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills are a must
- Must be a US Citizen
- SECRET DoD Clearance
- Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (preferred) with 8-12 years' experience or Master's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math with 6-10 years of experience (additional years of directly applicable experience may be accepted in lieu of a degree)
- Require active DoD IAT Level II (i.e., Security ) certification or equivalent prior to start
- Experience documenting logical or physical designs using drawing tools (e.g. Visio, Powerpoint, Gliffy, Cameo, MagicDraw) to depict systems, subsystems, interfaces, components, and communications of I/T applications and infrastructure
- Experience with requirements management and analysis
- Experienced and comfortable with conducting technical troubleshooting to resolve issues
- Experience creating or executing a migration plan to move services, applications, or data between environments or to a commercial cloud provider. Alternatively, experience planning or executing a technology refresh or lifecycle refresh of an existing I/T system
- Experience conducting site surveys or analyzing data obtained from site surveys
- Must have broad exposure to common I/T infrastructure with at least one area of depth in networking, storage, Identity and Access Management, operating systems, server virtualization, enterprise productivity applications, voice, desktops, or mobile devices
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills. This shall include drafting SOPs and technical documentation
- Must be able to present designs and plans to technical leadership personnel and boards for approvals
- Ability to manage multiple responsibilities and assignments
- Strong communication skills and ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment
- Familiarity with networking technologies
- Experience with one or more I/T discovery tools (e.g. Solarwinds, Device42, ServiceNow, or similar)
- Completion of one or more compute certification which shall meet or exceed an MCSA, VCTA, RHCSA, Server or comparable vender certification
- Knowledge of one or more virtualization technologies such as VMWare vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V
- Experience in managing enterprise storage solutions (i.e. Dell PowerStore/Unity, HPE Alletra/3PAR, NetApp AFF Series)
- Experience in managing enterprise backup solutions (i.e. CommVault, PowerProtect, Veeam)
- Experienced in deploying and maintaining Windows Server and/or Red Hat systems
- Experienced with Active Directory and Group Policy management and design
- Experienced with patching technologies (i.e. VMware LCM/VUM, MECM/SCCM, Satellite/Ansible)
- Experience working as part of a team to troubleshoot and resolve complex network issues
- Experience with cloud technologies (i.e. VCF, AWS, Azure, Oracle, or Google)
We are a learning organization that promotes a work culture of collaboration, inclusiveness, inspiration and innovation.
JCS has been certified as a Great Place to Work four years in a row and was awarded as Washington Post’s Top Places to Work for 2024.
Our employees embody our core values, and we are looking for others who do too!
- Customer Experience:Strive for excellence and delight our clients
- Innovation:Embrace creative thinking to enable continual growth and powerful solutions
- Accountability:Take ownership of and pride in our actions and service delivery
- Inspire:Be inspired to be your best self and have fun in the process
- Integrity:Do the right thing, the right way, every time!
- Stewardship:Careful management of something entrusted to us
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