Data Center Engineer (Infrastructure/ Cloud) with TS/SCI

• 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 environments with security-hardened configurations for infrastructure services and design ongoing maintenance practices and procedures for infrastructure-hosted service patching and updates
• Design virtual Infrastructure services to maximize the 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
• Develop the end-to-end vision and logical design that translate into physical databases and how the data will flow through the successive stages involved.
• Knowledgeable and practices a broader range of data administration skills, often in a Business Process Reengineering context
• Participates in strategic data planning, including developing and implementing 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, data mining, data security administration, and formulation of enterprise-specific data metrics

• Our client is Seeking a Data Center Engineer (Infrastructure/ Cloud) with TS/SCI for a role in Annapolis Junction, MD. The ideal candidate must hold an active TS/SCI clearance and have 8 to 10 years of BS/BA, 6 to 8 years of MS/MA, or 3 to 5 years of PhD. 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 is required, along with a current DoD 8570.1-M IAT Level III certification.
• The Data Center Engineer (Infrastructure/Cloud) will review current infrastructures, architectures, designs, and operations to identify potential improvements., * TS/SCI level clearance is required
• Requires 8 to 10 years with BS/BA, 6 to 8 years with MS/MA, or 3 to 5 years with PhD
• 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

Certification Requirement:

• 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