Emerge Labs Network Data Center Infrastructure Specialist

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, including compute, storage, networking and virtualization capabilities.
• Drive processes 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 such as 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 datacenter networking and infrastructure certifications such as CCNP, CCIE, and one or more datacenter virtualization certifications such as VMWare (VCP).
• Experience:
  
  5+ years of related experience managing multi‑tenant, virtualized infrastructure and services.
• Technical skills:
  Hands‑on expertise managing VMWare environments; datacenter networking and firewall capabilities from Cisco and Palo Alto; experience with SD‑WAN, hybrid, multi‑cloud environments leveraging AWS, Google or Azure; troubleshooting and resolving hardware issues for IT infrastructure devices; documenting datacenters, including rack and network diagrams; datacenter capacity planning.
• US persons:
  Must be a US person.
• Primary work location: GDIT’s Falls Church, VA Headquarters campus. Must be within a 1‑hour commuting radius and be willing to work onsite five days per week. Ability to lift and move IT infrastructure equipment.

Scheduled weekly hours: 40.

Travel required:

less than 10%.

Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans.