Description

The Digital and Mordernization Group at Leidos is currently seeking a motivated, career-oriented System Engineer with proven management experience to lead the JSP Platform Services team in Norfolk, VA to support the DISA JSP customer.

SHIFT SCHEDULE: Monday-Friday, 8:00 to 5:00 PM core hours with occasional after hours’ onsite

work to support both a NIPR and SIPR environment.

The candidate will be responsible for the technical planning, designing, system integration, verification/validation and support for total hardware devices and systems prior to deployment to the production network. This candidate will be managing a technical team in support of the operations and integrations tasking in a Microsoft Windows environment. This Engineering Manager will lead the Platform Services team as well as assist with a wide variety of design, planning and installation, configuration and upgrading of both virtual and physical servers and related hardware and software in a LAN, WAN and stand-alone environment. Provides investigation, diagnostic testing and repair/resolution of server systems.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Efficiently handle program financial reports, conduct monthly operations reviews, and deliver weekly progress reports.

• Brief senior leadership on contract status, project and operations execution and system integration.

• Deliver monthly IPR surveillance reports and attend monthly In Process Review meetings in support of Prime contractor.

• Coordinate daily execution of operations to ensure tasking requirements and contract deliverable are being met.

• Collaborate with Project Managers, network and system administrators, and hardware/systems integrators/engineers.

• Manages a small to mid-sized team consisting of experienced professionals supporting the both the DoD classified and unclassified computing enclaves.

• Oversee, guide, and assess the efforts of a team entrusted with significant autonomy in their tasks.

• Play a key role in determining the recruitment, dismissal, advancement, evaluation, and recognition of direct team members.

• Routinely perform systems requirements analysis, analyze technical functionality and system quality assurance.

• Responsible for co-designing, technical planning, and implementing complex integrated total systems configuration for virtual appliances and physical hardware builds, installs, and upgrades.

• Provided technical review and recommendations to customer leadership in consideration for equipment procurement efforts.

• Responsible for planning and evaluating virtual and physical system services and coordinate engineering configuration change review board (ECRB/CAB) documentation and brief board on technical details, requirements and milestones.

• Execute virtual and physical data center systems integration such as VMWare ESXi Hypervisor, VDI, and other required infrastructure upgrades, system enhancements, and enterprise LCM evolutions.

• Create, modify, and maintain Standard Operating Procedures/Work Instruction documentation.

• Regularly STIG vCenter, OS, ESXi, virtual machines, Microsoft Server OS, and Linux OS (i.e. RHEL, Oracle Linux)

• Plan and create Microsoft Server and Linux based operating system engineering and integration

• Regularly perform maintenance and upgrades on VMware Horizon VDI environment

• Perform system image builds IAW planned projects and initiatives and prepare deployment as required

• Perform virtual system deep-dives, log analysis, and Linux command line execution in support of troubleshooting efforts and problem resolution

• Respond to system faults, analyzing and correcting applications or system faults to reestablish service

• Maintain and update relevant system and process documentation.

• Successfully manage time and technical responsibilities, set accurate expectations and meet deliverable deadlines while working in a team collaboration environment.

• Maintain, update, install required certificates and track certificate revocation dates to ensure continuity of services.

• Test and implement patches for ESXi, vCenter, VMware Tools, HPE Blades (iLO/BIOS/Firmware/VC/OA), and Dell Servers (iDRAC, BIOS, Firmware)

• Implement and support Dell PowerStore Storage/SAN solutions

• Understanding of system hardening, tools, guidelines and benchmarks and routinely conduct STIG compliance spot-checks on various Linux, Linux-like and Windows endpoints using SCAP and CLI

BASIC REQUIREMENTS

• Requires a BA/BS or equivalent experience and 5 years or prior relevant experience or Masters with 3 years of prior relevant experience. 2 years of experience supervising or leading teams or projects. *Experience in lieu of degree may be accepted.*

• Knowledge and experience with VMWare ESXi Hypervisor technical integration of bare metal blade servers as well as rack server technology and hardware solutions.

• Understanding of VM Kernel Operating System installation and virtual server on physical server implementation.

• Understanding of power shell scripting or programming for systems management.

• Experience with Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) / DaaS

• Experience end-user profile management solution based on FSLogix, VMware Clustered VMDKs, Clustered Shared Volumes, and Scale-Out File Server (SOFS)

• Strong understanding of enterprise, network, systems, operations and support.

• Excellent writing and speaking skills

• Experience with creating and maintaining network and computer datacenter diagrams, rack elevations, and drawings

• Experience with applying DoD STIG requirements and using SCAP tool

• Experience working with system security applications (ACAS) and mitigating vulnerabilities

• 8570/8140 IAT Level II or III: Security CE, VMWare VCA and System OS Cert (e.g. Linux Windows server)

Preferred Qualifications

• 8570/8140 IAT Level III certification (CASP CE, CISSP or assoc.)

• VMWare VCA (VMWare Certified Professional) certification

• Project Manager Professional (PMP) certification

• Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ900) or Microsoft Config & Operating Azure Virtual Desktop (AZ140)

Original Posting Date:

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

Original Posting Date:

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.