What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Center Engineer (VDI & SOR-2) position at Waypoint Human Capital?
Position Title: Data Center Engineer (VDI & SOR-2)
Position Type: Onsite
Location: Annapolis Junction, MD
Clearance: TS/SCI
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.
Requirements:
- 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.