Job Title: Senior Data Center Engineer (Infrastructure/Cloud)
Clearance: TS/SCI
Location: Annapolis Junction, MD
Job Type: Full-Time
Target Salary Range*: $155,000 - $205,000
This represents the potential salary range for this position depending on education level, years of experience and/or certifications in addition to other position specific requirements which may impact salary
Position Overview:
The Data Center Engineer (Infrastructure/Cloud) will be responsible to review current infrastructures, architectures, designs, and operations to identify potential improvements.
Responsibilities
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 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
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.
Desired
Professional-level Linux, VMware, Network, Storage, or Cloud certifications desired.
ITIL Foundations certification desired.