General Dynamics Information Technology · 3 months ago
GDIT Emerge Labs Principal Infrastructure Specialist
USA VA Falls Church
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$153K/yr - $207K/yr
5+ years expGeneral Dynamics Information Technology is a global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology, and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government. As an Emerge Labs Principal Infrastructure Specialist, you will lead the engineering, operations, and maintenance of GDIT’s physical datacenters while collaborating with various teams to support internal research and development initiatives.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud ComputingConsultingCyber SecurityInformation Technology
No H1B
Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
5 + years of related experience
Bachelor's degree (additional related experience may be considered in lieu of a degree)
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
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
US Persons
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
The ability to lift, carry, push, or pull IT infrastructure equipment (servers, power supplies, vendor appliances, etc.)
Preferred
One or more Data Center networking and infrastructure certifications such as CCNP, CCIE
One or more Data Center virtualization certifications such as VMWare (VCP)
Additional expertise with SD-WAN capabilities desired
Benefits
Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages
401K with company match
Variety of medical plan options
Some with Health Savings Accounts
Dental plan options
A vision plan
Ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match
Full flex work weeks where possible
Variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave
Short and long-term disability benefits
Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance
Company
General Dynamics Information Technology
General Dynamics Information Technology is an IT consulting company that specializes in cyber security, AI, and quantum computing. It is a sub-organization of General Dynamics.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Paul Nedzbala
Senior Vice President
Ben Buckley
Vice President and General Manager
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