Virtualization Design Engineer needed for a long-term contract opportunity with SOC’s client to work in Quantico, Virginia.

Active Secret clearance is required for this contract!

The position will be a W-2 employee of Federal Services and will not involve an independent contractor relationship with the company.

Responsibilities

• Assist the Government Lead in the daily engineering duties on systems.
• Design, implement, and support the network to include installation, maintenance, security, and day-to-day monitoring of virtual infrastructure.
• Maintain and administer applications, custom monitors, and custom reports.
• Coordinate and manage overall system maintenance.
• Recommend and implement test sets to provide root cause analysis and resolution for alerts and events and resolve incidents in response to escalated tickets.
• Work with cluster file systems and other technologies to provide redundancy and availability for server farms and applications.
• Develop and execute software, testing, and validation procedures, programming and documentation.
• Design and customize software to optimize operational efficiency in cloud-based environments.
• Develop and integrate virtual storage console.
• Execute data store design and management.
• Support virtualization capacity, performance design, and management.
• Manage virtualization high availability/disaster recovery solution design and integration.
• Complete Virtual Switching (Vswitch) design and configuration.
  Perform tasks associated with application networking ports and protocols, Information Assurance (IA), routing and Local Area Network (LAN).
• Manage user and group permissions and security design.
• Initiate security updates in accordance with Government procedures for directory services. Support evaluating virtualization and network consolidation.
• Perform virtualization integration with System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2012, SQL 2012R2, external storage devices utilizing LUNs, quota distribution and file sharing and installation on various server hardware.
• Perform system integration with Host Based Security System (HBSS).
• Perform virtualization integration with New File System (NFS), IP Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) and Fiber Channel (FC).

Qualifications

• Experience with Data Sharing, Network Attached Storage (NAS), Disaster Recovery preparation, and integration of capabilities with Cloud Computing and Cyber architectures.
• Experience with administering the most current versions of Windows Operating Systems and Windows Operating Systems environments, virtual infrastructure platforms, and working with vendor-neutral virtual networking solutions and technologies.
• Experience with virtualization concepts, virtual and storage networking protocols, such as Fiber Channel protocols and Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI).
• Experience with VMWare and Hyper-V tools and VMWare Update Manager.
• Experience with Hyper-V WSUS (Windows Server Update Services).
• Must possess Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) version 3 Foundation.
• Must possess professional-level certifications in one or more technology related vendor solutions such as Veritas, EMC Corporation, NetApp, or Tivoli, or demonstrate sufficient experience in lieu of certification.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, MIS, Business, or related field*
• Minimum Years Experience in General IT: 10
• Minimum DOD 8570 Level: Information Assurance Technician (IAT) Level III
• Additional Certifications Required: Must possess ITIL v3 Foundation.
• Must possess professional-level certifications in one or more technology related vendor solutions such as Veritas, EMC Corporation, NetApp, or Tivoli, or demonstrate sufficient experience in lieu of certification.
  

Employment Pre-requisites

The following requirements must be met to be eligible for this position: successful completion of a background investigation, drug urinalysis, and verified compliance with Executive Order 14042, Ensuring Adequate COVID Safety Protocols for Federal Contractors.

Note: Any pay ranges displayed are estimations which may have been provided by job boards. Actual pay is determined by an applicant’s experience, technical expertise, and other qualifications as listed in the job description. All qualified applicants are welcome to apply.

SOC, a Day & Zimmermann company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer, EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability.

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