Data Center Engineer/Virtualization Architect

Company: Perspecta
Location: Augusta
Posted on: February 11, 2020

Job Description:

Business Group Highlights Defense The Defense group supports the Department of Defense (DoD) mission to keep our homeland and its citizens safe. We provide solutions to improve the Nation's defense by providing software, systems engineering, IT, training and logistics and fleet management solutions.Responsibilities Serve as a virtualization administrator specializing in VMware virtualization technology or future virtualization technologies. Install, configure and manage virtualization environments, both physical and virtual storage solutions, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), physical and virtual routers, switches, Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS), Power Distribution Units (PDUs), servers, etc. Perform a variety of tasks to include identifying servers to be virtualized, creating test environments, validation, converting servers, and maintaining virtual infrastructure. Continue to improve the virtual classroom course delivery to meet instructor and student needs. Analyze systems requirements in response to customer requirements, risks, and costs by working directly with management and system administrators. Evaluate new systems information technologies and their effect on the environment. Ensures that cyber security and OPSEC policies, principles, and practices are an integral element of the operating environment. Integrate hardware and software components within the systems environment. Continually monitor and fine-tune performance of the Information Systems. Conduct analyses of network usage, user complaints, traffic interruptions, hardware and software capabilities, and other relevant factors. identify adverse trends, ineffective practices or procedures, equipment shortcomings, etc. Apply Information Technology (IT) expertise, including feasibility studies, technical evaluation, justification, acquisition/procurement, installation, implementation, management, and administration of IT systems. Work is performed in a complex IT network environment involving support to geographically dispersed sites and locations. Virtualize provided school house content for provisioning via the Training Network. Create updates and comply with SOPs and other documentation (ex. Change and configuration management.) Keep up-to-date on IT news regarding networks and security. Implement systems and technologies for big data in accordance with best practices. Interface with Fort Gordon (FG) Network Enterprise Center (NEC) and other agencies. Create user guides for software implementation. Translate complex technical requirements into actionable and sustainable tasks. Compile reports ranging from a wide variety of topic areas related to existing and potential G6 IT projects, platforms and Systems. Create, conduct, and maintain training for units and staff on all G6 platforms, systems and theories.Qualifications Requires 8 to 10 years with BS/BA or 6 to 8 years with MS/MA or 3 to 5 years with PhD.Requirements: 10+ years of experience in information technology 5+ years of customer-facing professional services or IT consulting experience 3+ years of experience in infrastructure architecture and design of complex distributed systems environments, including failover techniques, recovery/rollback, and application partitioning A minimum of three (3) years of experience VMWare Virtualization administration experience Technical Skills Required: Have outstanding communications and interpersonal skills Have strong VMware vSphere experience Have strong Windows desktop OS administration experience Have understanding of storage architectures, including peripheral interfaces (SCSI, RAID, Ethernet) and multi-processor designs (SMP) Have technical awareness of one or more additional VMware products: vCloud Suite, vRealize Suite, vRealize Automation (vRA), vRealize Orchestrator (vRO), Horizon View, VMware Virtual SAN (vSAN), or NSX Have Horizon View design and implementation experience in enterprise environments Required: TS/SCI eligibility IAT LVL II Baseline Certification - CompTIA Security+ or higher Computing Environment (CE): must be maintained IAW Army guidance at current platform (or higher) and adhere to VMWare recertification policies. Currently: VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization 2019 or VMware Certified Professional Cloud Management and Automation 2019 About Perspecta What matters to our nation, is what matters to us. At Perspecta, everything we do, from conducting innovative research to cultivating strong relationships, supports one imperative: ensuring that your work succeeds. Our company was formed to bring a broad array of capabilities to all parts of the public sector-from investigative services and IT strategy to systems work and next-generation engineering.Our promise is simple: never stop solving our nation's most complex challenges. And with a workforce of approximately 14,000, more than 48 percent of which is cleared, we have been trusted to just that, as a partner of choice across the entire sector.Perspecta is an AA/EEO Employer - Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled and other protected categories.Options Apply for this job onlineApply Share Email this job to a friendRefer Sorry the Share function is not working properly at this moment. Please refresh the page and try again later. Share on your newsfeed As a government contractor, Perspecta abides by the following provision PAY TRANSPARENCY NONDISCRIMINATION PROVISION The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c) - provided by Dice

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