Data Center Engineer (Infrastructure/ Cloud) with TS/SCI

Position Description:

Our client is Seeking a Data Center Engineer (Infrastructure/ Cloud) with TS/SCI for a role in Annapolis Junction, MD. The ideal candidate must hold an active TS/SCI clearance and have 8 to 10 years of BS/BA, 6 to 8 years of MS/MA, or 3 to 5 years of 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 is required, along with a current DoD 8570.1-M IAT Level III certification.

The Data Center Engineer (Infrastructure/Cloud) will review current infrastructures, architectures, designs, and operations to identify potential improvements. Position Job Duties:

Design, deliver, and optimize Infrastructure Services to improve security, availability, performance, and resource utilization in the data centers

nalyze, 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

Develop the end-to-end vision and logical design that translate into physical databases and how the data will flow through the successive stages involved.

Knowledgeable and practices a broader range of data administration skills, often in a Business Process Reengineering context

Participates in strategic data planning, including developing and implementing DA policies, standards, and procedures

Understands data from the perspective of data processing and in the context of different life-cycle phases

ctivities 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 Position Qualifications:

TS/SCI level clearance is required

Requires 8 to 10 years with BS/BA, 6 to 8 years with MS/MA, or 3 to 5 years with 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