Data Center Engineer (VDI)

Source One is a staffing services company and we’re currently looking for the following individual to work as a permanent employee of our direct client, a government agency supporting the Department of the Navy in Annapolis Junction, MD.

No sponsorships or C2C

Title: Data Center Engineer (VDI) with TS/SCI

Salary: $167,000 per year

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

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

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

Languages: English (Native or bilingual proficiency)

Experience required:

TS/SCI level clearance is required

8 to 10 years of experience with a BS/BA, 6 to 8 years with an MS/MA, or 3 to 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