Data Center Engineer (VDI)

Job Description

VMR Strategic Solutions is looking for a Data Center Engineer (VDI) to add to our team. We are looking for an engineer in experience in Infrastructure/Datacenter. You will provide infrastructure engineering for data center, compute, storage, network, Unified Communications, and remote site servers. You will also design, deliver, and optimize Infrastructure Services to improve security, availability, performance, and resource utilization in the data centers.

Duties

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 environment with security hardened configuration for infrastructure services and design ongoing maintenance practices and procedures for infrastructure hosted service patching and updates

Design virtual Infrastructure services to maximize available capacity of physical compute, 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 and data mining, data security administration, and formulation of enterprise-specific data metrics.

Qualifications

Required Education and Experience:

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.

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

Working Environment

Onsite

Required Clearance

TS/SCI