Data Center Engineer – VDI
| Company | Abile Group |
|---|---|
| Location | Annapolis Junction, MD, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s, PhD |
| Experience Level | Senior |
Requirements
- Clearance Required: TS/SCI
- Degree and Years of Experience: 5 to 8 years with BS/BA or 3 to 5 years with MS/MA or 0 to 2 years with PhD
- Required Certifications: DoD 8570.1-M IAT Level III certification
- Required Skills: 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.
Responsibilities
- Designs, delivers, and optimizes Infrastructure Services to improve security, availability, performance, and resource utilization in the data centers.
- Reviews current infrastructures, architectures, designs, and operations to identify potential improvements.
- Analyzes, refines, and documents the requirements for transition from legacy hardware into modern data center infrastructure environment.
- Designs and builds host & tenant environment with security hardened configuration for infrastructure services and designs ongoing maintenance practices and procedures for infrastructure hosted service patching and updates.
- Designs virtual Infrastructure services to maximize available capacity of physical compute, storage, and network hardware resources.
- Documents security, configuration, and performance benchmarks of Infrastructure Services.
- Designs production infrastructure services that support highly available, private cloud, active-active data center operations, within the constraints of the environment.
- Designs practices, procedures, Automation and Orchestration to provision, de-provision, and entitle Compute, Storage, and Network resources.
- Identifies infrastructure security-relevant actions, tests, and key performance indicators for Information Dashboard and Reporting.
- Designs 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.
Preferred Qualifications
- Desired Certifications: ITIL Foundations certification.
- Desired Certifications: Professional-level Linux, VMware, Network, Storage, or Cloud certifications.