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

• 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., * 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

Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI), Top Secret Clearance, Software Engineering, Network Operations Center, Cloud Computing, United States Department of Defense (DoD), Oracle Solaris (fka Sun Microsystems Solaris), Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI), Software Engineering, Operating Systems, * 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