Platform Engineer

Job Title: Platform Engineer

Clearance Requirements: TS/SCI Clearance is required for this position, and a Polygraph is also mandatory. Currently, we are unable to sponsor clearance at this time.

Description: The successful candidate will develop and implement applications into the enhanced virtual desktop infrastructure (eVDI).

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement applications into eVDI.
• Provide support to eVDI end-users, back-end applications, and infrastructure.
• Work with the network team to optimize resource utilization, capture network performance, and resolve networking issues.
• Offer hardware, operating system, and system administration support for enterprise IT services, including software scripting, installation, provisioning, and configuration.

Required Skills:

• Maintain organization's network diagrams and accreditations.
• Resolve complex network problems related to eVDI.
• Implement, integrate, and maintain systems architecture in Citrix environments on Windows, UNIX, and Linux systems.
• Collaborate with developers and DBAs to integrate applications into eVDI.
• Perform software scripting, installation, provisioning, and configuration.
• Prepare hardware and system designs for updates to eVDI.
• Provide support for eVDI, including troubleshooting, repairing, monitoring, and testing.
• Offer Tier 2 and Tier 3 support to Citrix end-users.
• Collaborate with engineers on systems integration efforts.
• Optimize system operations, resource utilization, and perform system capacity analysis and planning.
• Conduct data captures to obtain network performance information.
• Implement specific network solutions to support server requirements, including load-balancing, VPNs, firewalls, and network address translation.

Education and Experience:

• A minimum of 10 years' experience as a Platform Engineer is required.
• Bachelor's degree in computer engineering or a related field is necessary.
• Alternatively, 4 years of additional platform engineering experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree, totaling 14 years.
• 5 years of experience with Linux, Unix, and Shell programming are essential.
• 2 years of experience with Enterprise Hosting Platforms, Service Applications, and Enterprise Data Centers are required.
• 8570 compliance with IAT Level I or higher is mandatory.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary.
• Employer-paid healthcare, including medical, dental, and vision care.
• 401(k) Safe Harbor Plan with a 6% match immediately vested.
• 25 days of personal time off.
• 11 federal holidays.
• Up to 3 employer-paid Code Red Days due to weather, shutdowns, etc.
• $5,000 per year for training and personal development.
• Employer-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, life insurance, and AD&D.

Salary : $5,000