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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Emerge Labs Network Data Center Infrastructure... - **Company:** General Dynamics Information Technology - **Location:** Falls Church, VA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $153,000.0 - $207,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cyber Security, Data Centers, Network Diagrams, Cloud Services, Virtualization Technology, Wide Area Networks, Multi-Cloud, Data Center Networking, Information Technology, Palo Alto Networks, Cisco, Vmware - **Published:** June 28, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/00000000gc0upt ## About the Role 5 + years of related experience, Bring your technology expertise and drive for innovation to GDIT. The Infrastructure Specialist Principal must have: * Education: Bachelor's degree (additional related experience may be considered in lieu of a degree) * Certifications: One or more Data Center networking and infrastructure certifications such as CCNP, CCIE, as well as one or more Data Center virtualization certifications such as VMWare (VCP) * Experience: 5+ years of related experience * Technical skills: + Hands-on expertise managing multi-tenant, virtualized infrastructure and services using VMWare + Hands-on expertise with datacenter networking and firewall capabilities from Cisco and Palo Alto. Additional expertise with SD-WAN capabilities desired. + Experience with hybrid, multi-cloud environments where physical datacenters leverage cloud services from AWS, Google or Azure. + Expertise troubleshooting and resolving hardware issues for IT infrastructure devices + Experience documenting datacenters, including creating and maintaining rack and network diagrams + Experience with datacenter capacity planning * US Persons, + The ability to lift, carry, push, or pull IT infrastructure equipment (servers, power supplies, vendor appliances, etc.) ## Description As an Emerge Labs Principal Infrastructure Specialist, the work you'll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of our Federal, Intelligence and Defense customers. You will play a crucial role in supporting GDIT's ability to conduct internal research and development (IR&D) building Digital Accelerators, Platforms and Mission Solutions within Emerge Labs. Emerge Labs is a multi-tenant, hybrid, multi-cloud lab environment with physical datacenter spaces located at our Falls Church, VA Headquarters campus. In this role, you will: MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT * Lead the day-to-day engineering, operations, and maintenance of GDIT's Emerge Labs physical datacenters located in Falls Church, VA * Collaborate with other Emerge Labs Engineers, Architects and Cybersecurity staff to meet IR&D datacenter requirements to include compute, storage, networking and virtualization capabilities. * Drive process and procedures for managing our physical datacenter and onboarding tenant customers and appliances * Create and maintain datacenter documentation including rack and network diagrams * Conduct capacity planning and provide leadership recommendations for efficiently scaling services over time * Utilize networking and virtualization capabilities from vendors including VMWare, Cisco, Palo Alto, Dell, Google, Azure and AWS. ## Related Videos - [How Cisco embraced a DevOps culture within its network engineering team](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/99-how-cisco-embraced-a-devops-culture-within-its-network-engineering-team) - [Unlocking the potential of Digital & IT at Vodafone](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/602-unlocking-the-potential-of-digital-it-at-vodafone) - [The Open-source Java SDK for Multi-Cloud Development - Sandeep Pal](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2113-the-open-source-java-sdk-for-multi-cloud-development-sandeep-pal) - [WebAssembly: The Next Frontier of Cloud Computing](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/972-webassembly-the-next-frontier-of-cloud-computing) - [The Cloud is Calling: Answer with In-Demand Skills](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/945-the-cloud-is-calling-answer-with-in-demand-skills) - [Leverage Cloud Computing Benefits with Serverless Multi-Cloud ML ](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/78-leverage-cloud-computing-benefits-with-serverless-multi-cloud-ml) ## Related Articles - [What Are The Top Skills Required For Azure Developers?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/77-what-are-the-top-skills-required-for-azure-developers) - [A Guide to Green Tech and Green IT Careers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/374-a-guide-to-green-tech-and-green-it-careers) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [7 Cloud Computing Trends Coming in 2025 for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/412-7-cloud-computing-trends-coming-in-2025-for-developers) - [The Most Popular IT Jobs on the Market](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/376-the-most-popular-it-jobs-on-the-market) - [System change: restart as developer?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/39-system-change-restart-as-developer)