Data Center Engineer with TS/SCI

Data Center Engineer

Location: Annapolis Junction, MD, USA

# of vacancies: 1

Requirements:

Degree required: Requires 8 to 10 years with BS/BA or 6 to 8 years with MS/MA or 3 to 5 years with PhD.

Special examinations / certificates: TS/SCI level clearance is required, Must have a current DoD 8570.1-M IAT Level III certification, Professional-level Linux, VMware, Network, Storage, or Cloud certifications desired, ITIL Foundations Certification desired

Years of work experience: 8 year(s)

Responsibilities:

One of our clients is seeking a Data Center Engineer (VDI & S-NET) with TS/SCI for a role in Annapolis Junction, MD

The ideal candidate must hold an active TS/SCI clearance and have 8-10 years of experience with a BS/BA, or 6-8 years with a MS/MA, or 3-5 years with a PhD.

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
• 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 Reengineering 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, data mining, data security administration, and formulation of enterprise-specific data metrics

Language skills (must have):

English Native or bilingual proficiency

Experience required:

- **Position Qualifications:** - TS/SCI level clearance is required - 8-10 years of experience with a BS/BA, or 6-8 years with a MS/MA, or 3-5 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

Additional job information:

- **Details:** - **Job Title:** Data Center Engineer (VDI & S-NET) - **3 Site Locations:** - Annapolis Junction, MD (Primary) - JBAB (Depends on Responsibilities) - Landover, MD (Future) - **Security Clearance Requirement:** TS/SCI - **Assignment Type**: Full-time - **Salary:** Maximum annual salary of $167,000