Data Center Engineer

Overview

SilverEdge is a premier provider of innovative cyber, software and intelligence solutions addressing everyday challenges to meet mission goals across the DOD and Intel Communities and beyond. We are seeking a Data Center Engineer that will be responsible for the following duties:

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

Required Qualifications

Clearance: TS/SCI w/Poly

• 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
• Must have a current DoD 8570.1-M IAT Level III certification.

Desired Qualifications

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

About SilverEdge

SilverEdge Government Solutions was founded on the belief that nurturing talent and collaborating closely with our customers enables us to think big and deliver the best for our country. Our mission is to bring top technology talent together to solve the world's most challenging problems while protecting the United States and our allies.SilverEdge Government Solutions, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and applicants receive lawful consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.