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Data Center Engineer (Infrastructure/Cloud)
- Annapolis Junction, MD (with potential work at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling (JBAB) or Landover, MD)
- Full-Time
- Position Id: 56
- Clearance Required: Current/Active TS/SCI
- Position Timing: Contingent on award; expected contract start date June 2025
- Work Schedule: Onsite – 5 Days/Week
- Period of Performance: 01/08/2024 – 08/30/2027
Overview
The 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 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.
Qualifications
- 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 Qualifications
- Professional-level certifications in Linux, VMware, Network, Storage, or Cloud
- ITIL Foundations certification