Data Center Engineer; Infrastructure​/Cloud

Overview

Abile Group has an exciting and challenging opportunity for a Data Center Engineer (Infrastructure/Cloud) supporting a DoD Customer's Classified Network Services. The mission will include Operations, Compliance, Cyber Security, Customer Service, and Engineering. The right Data Center Engineer (Infrastructure/Cloud) candidate will possess the below skills and qualifications and be ready to handle all responsibilities independently and professionally.

• Designs, delivers, and optimizes Infrastructure Services to improve security, availability, performance, and resource utilization in the data centers.
• Reviews current infrastructures, architectures, designs, and operations to identify potential improvements.
• Analyzes, refines, and documents the requirements for transition from legacy hardware into modern data center infrastructure environment.
• Designs and builds host & tenant environment with security hardened configuration for infrastructure services and design ongoing maintenance practices and procedures for infrastructure hosted service patching and updates.
• Designs virtual Infrastructure services to maximize available capacity of physical compute, storage, and network hardware resources.
• Documents security, configuration, and performance benchmarks of Infrastructure Services.
• Designs production infrastructure services that support highly available, private cloud, active-active data center operations, within the constraints of the environment.
• Designs practices, procedures, Automation and Orchestration to provision, de-provision, and entitle Compute, Storage, and Network resources.
• Identifies infrastructure security-relevant actions, tests, and key performance indicators for Information Dashboard and Reporting.
• Designs 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.

Clearance Required: TS/SCI.

Degree and Years of

Experience:

8 to 10 years with BS/BA or 6 to 8 years with MS/MA or 3 to 5 years with PhD.

Required

Certifications:

• Current DoD 8570.1-M IAT Level III certification.

Desired

Certifications:

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

Required Skills:

• 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.

Salary Range: $107,388 - $155,388

The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by factors including, but not limited to geographic location, position requirements, Federal Government contract labor categories, relevant prior work experience, specific skills and competencies, education, and certifications.

Salary is just one component of Abile Group's total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. Abile Group provides a comprehensive package of benefits including employer subsidized Medical and Dental,…