Emerge Labs Network Data Center Infrastructure Specialist

Type of Requisition: Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Public Trust/Other

Required:

None

Job Family: IT Infrastructure and Operations

Job Qualifications:

Skills: Data Center Management, Data Center Services, Virtualization

Certifications: None

Experience: 5+ years of related experience

US Citizenship

Required:

No

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.

• 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

• 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
• 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

• Primary work location is GDIT’s Falls Church, VA Headquarters campus
• Must be located within a 1‑hour commuting radius of GDIT’s Falls Church, VA Headquarters campus to support touch maintenance or outages and be willing to work onsite five (5) days per week
• The ability to lift, carry, push, or pull IT infrastructure equipment (servers, power supplies, vendor appliances, etc.)

Our benefits package for all US‑based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute pre and post‑tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. We also offer paid time off, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.

Additional offerings such as short and long‑term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available.

Scheduled Weekly

Hours:

40

Travel Required: Less than 10%

Telecommuting Options: Onsite

Work Location: USA VA Falls Church

Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans