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Position: Data Center Engineer (Infrastructure/Cloud)
Location: Annapolis Junction, MD
Position Type: Full-time; Onsite
Clearance Required: Active TS w/ SCI eligibility
Waypoint’s client is seeking a Data Center Engineer (Infrastructure/Cloud), will be responsible for reviewing current infrastructures, architectures, designs, and operations to identify potential improvements.
Responsibilities:
*Waypoint Human Capital is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.
Location: Annapolis Junction, MD
Position Type: Full-time; Onsite
Clearance Required: Active TS w/ SCI eligibility
Waypoint’s client is seeking a Data Center Engineer (Infrastructure/Cloud), will be responsible for reviewing 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
- 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 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 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.
- 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.
- Professional-level Linux, VMware, Network, Storage, or Cloud certifications desired.
- ITIL Foundations certification desired.
| Education Required | Salary Range |
| Requires 5 to 8 years with BS/BA or 3 to 5 years with MS/MA or 0 to 2 years with PhD. | $138-165K |
| Requires 8 to 10 years with BS/BA or 6 to 8 years with MS/MA or 3 to 5 years with PhD. |
*Waypoint Human Capital is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.
Salary : $138,000 - $165,000