Data Center Engineer (VDI & S-NET)

Title: Data Center Engineer (VDI & S-NET)

Start: Immediate

Duration: 12 months (Likely long extension)

Location: Annapolis, MD

*** Active TS/SCI clearance***

Job Description:

• The ideal candidate must hold an active TS/SCI clearance and have 8-10 years of experience with a BS/BA, or 6-8 years with a MS/MA, or 3-5 years with a PhD.
• Experience in infrastructure/datacenter engineering and integration for physical and virtual environments hosting Windows, Linux, Solaris, UNIX, or AIX systems is required, along with a current DoD 8570.1-M IAT Level III certification.

Executive Summary:

Our Client seeks a Data Center Engineer (VDI & S-NET) for a role supporting the Department of the Navy in Annapolis Junction, MD.

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 a 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
• 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 broader range of data administration skills, often in a Business Process Reengineering context
• Participates in strategic data planning, including the 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, data mining, data security administration, and formulation of enterprise-specific data metrics.