Infrastructure and DevOps Engineer

Company Overview

By Light Professional IT Services LLC readies warfighters and federal agencies with technology and systems engineered to connect, protect, and prepare individuals and teams for whatever comes next. Headquartered in McLean, VA, By Light supports defense, civilian, and commercial IT customers worldwide.

Cole Engineering Services (CESI), a By Light company, is recognized as a premier provider of modeling and simulation (M&S) training solutions to the Federal Government and industry. Since 2004, CESI has been at the forefront of developing, maintaining, and integrating simulation-based training, serious gaming, technical services, training and other support in live, virtual, constructive, and gaming (LVCG) domains. CESI also designs, builds and runs infrastructure, platforms, applications and processes that enable cyber training for the integrated multi‑domain force.

Our vision is to become a worldwide full spectrum LVCG and cyber training/analysis developer, integrator and services provider.

Orchestrate, automate, document, and standardize data center design and implementation. Support the full stack fielding of hardware and software to DoD data centers. Support the design, installation and operation of a distributed Army data center. Utilize Infrastructure as Code tools to automate the deployment of the overarching system and support Dev Ops functions for application software. Work as part of a fast moving highly diverse team across multiple projects simultaneously.

• Ability to perform many duties involving distributed services implementation, network design and implementation within both SDN and Physical environments and installation, configuration and management of ESXi hosts and vCenter across multiple data centers.
• Must be able to author and maintain scripts in a variety of languages.
• Must be skilled with Linux system administration and have a functional knowledge of Red Hat enterprise services such as VKS, Ansible Tower and Single Sign On.
• Analyzes real‑world problems and implements solutions according to corporate guidelines and procedures, and industry best practices.
• Assures system stability, accessibility, and proper configuration of assigned technical systems and components.
• Monitor, maintain, install, and support networked virtual and physical machines, software applications, and peripheral equipment in a large‑scale environment.
• Provides professional‑level IT, virtual environment, and network support functions, and assists software developers, integration, and test engineers with Dev Ops functions.
• Must be a self‑starter in a fast‑paced environment and able to work with/manage a range of engineers holding a diverse set of skills at differing levels of experience.
• Be sensitive and flexible to the needs and requirements of the customer.

• Help in the maintenance of a data center environment with information assurance policies and procedures.
• Apply software centric Dev Ops functions to a large scale data center environment.
• Analyze hardware and software functionality for proper operation and improvement.
• Identify, locate, resolve and repair problems within scope authority.
• Document and present performance records and results.
• Document problems/issues via IT ticketing system/tracking log.
• Review and update all information security management system process and procedures (data/software).

• Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline such as computer science or information technology from an accredited college or university.
• Five years of work experience preferred. Security+ and/or CISSP certifications are required, or must be completed within four months of hire.
• Knowledge of and ability to implement cloud vendor best practices.
  • Our environment is primarily built with Linux, VMware, VKS and the rest of the Red Hat suite of enterprise products.
• Experience with private and hybrid cloud design/operation/monitoring/deployment:
  • VMware vCenter and ESXi, generally maintained at the most current version.
  • Knowledge of or ability to learn VMware Orchestrator to automate deployment and destruction of…