Your Impact:

Jacobs is currently seeking a VMware Engineer with an active TS/SCI with Poly to join their team in the Hanover, MD area. The work environment is fast-paced and sometimes involves extreme deadline pressures. The nature of the work requires a high degree of teamwork and cooperation with other members of the staff as well as individuals across the Company and Customers. 

Responsibilities:
Administration and optimization of existing hosts and servers to ensure a high degree of availability and appropriate resource management. Research, recommend and implement strategies and hardware and software products to build upon a highly complex infrastructure that supports the changing needs of our customer. The systems engineer will design, develop, integrate and maintain complex systems for every stage of a lifecycle. The ideal candidate will be able to reliably deliver mission-critical infrastructure with an eye toward accessibility, optimization, and security. 

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Here’s what you’ll need:

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
• Fourteen (14) years’ experience as a SE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required.
• Five (5) years of additional SE experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
• Experience installing, configuring and maintaining VMWare products including, but not limited to ESXi, vCenter, VSAN and NSX.
• Experience installing, configuring and maintaining VDI environments, specifically VMWare Horizon View.
• Experience installing, configuring, and maintaining physical and virtual Windows and Linux servers and desktops.
• Experience with networking concepts such as routing, switching, encryption, and firewalls.
• Experience with TCP/IP networking, networking architecture, and its interrelation to desktops, servers, and operating systems.
• Experience with packet capture and network analysis tools.
• Experience with network security principles, threats, and vulnerabilities.
• Experience with monitoring solutions and datacenter operations.
• Understanding of Software Defined Networking & Micro-segmentation.
• System Engineers must be able to successfully demonstrate the following capabilities:
  • Implement operational view, technical standard view, and system and services view for architecting application DoDAF standards.
  • Review and /or approve system engineering documentation to ensure that processes and specification meet system needs are accurate, comprehensive, and complete.
  • Capture all interface designs in a command interface control format and store interface data in a commonly accessible repository.
  • Asses each risk to the program and determine the probability of occurrence and quantified consequence of failure in accordance with an approved risk management plan.
  • Prepare time-line analysis diagrams illustrating the flow of time-dependent functions.
  • Support the planning and test analysis of the DoD Certification/Accreditation Process (as well as other
  • Government Certification and Accreditation (C&A) Process).
  • Support the development and review of Joint Capability Integration Development Systems (JCIDS) documents (i.e. Initial Capability Document, Capabilities Description Document, IA Strategy).
  • Develop scenarios (threads) and an Operational Concepts that describes the interactions between the system, the user, and the environment, that satisfies operational, support, maintenance, and disposal needs.
  • Conduct quantitative analysis in non-functional systems performance are like Reliability, Maintainability, Vulnerability, Survivability, Produce ability, etc. 

Preferred:

• Experience working with desktop and server hardware and peripherals.
• Experience with scripting languages (Windows PowerShell, BASH, VMware PowerCLI etc.)
• Experience with reading/implementing STIG guidance, hardening and maintaining systems.
• Experience with installing, configuring, maintaining and using Atlassian products such as Confluence, Jira, Bitbucket, etc.