Senior Data Center Engineer (Infrastructure/Cloud)

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Job Title: Senior Data Center Engineer (Infrastructure/Cloud)

Clearance: TS/SCI

Location: Annapolis Junction, MD

Job Type: Full-Time

Target Salary Range*: $155,000 - $205,000

*This represents the potential salary range for this position depending on education level, years of experience and/or certifications in addition to other position specific requirements which may impact salary

Position Overview:

The Data Center Engineer (Infrastructure/Cloud) will be responsible to review 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
• 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.

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

• Professional-level Linux, VMware, Network, Storage, or Cloud certifications desired.
• ITIL Foundations certification desired.