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Leidos · 4 hours ago

Systems Engineer

Norfolk, VA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$108K/yr - $195K/yr

8+ years exp

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. The Systems Engineer will be responsible for designing, planning, and implementing complex integrated systems for virtual appliances and physical hardware, supporting the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Joint Service Provider (JSP).

ComputerGovernmentInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyNational SecuritySoftware

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Responsible for designing, technical planning, and implementing complex integrated total systems configuration for virtual appliances and physical hardware builds, installs, and upgrades

Provided technical review and expertise leading hardware LCR recommendations to leadership in consideration for equipment procurement evolutions

Responsible for evaluating virtual and physical system services and coordinate engineering configuration change review board (ECRB/CAB) documentation and brief board on technical details, requirements and milestones

Routinely conduct system analysis and market research in order to present whitepapers guiding Government leadership in modernization efforts

Create and implement multi-layered technical optimization plans for the unclassified and classified vSphere and Horizon enterprise environments

Create and maintain PowerShell scripts relating to virtual infrastructure and Microsoft servers

Plan, coordinate and execute virtual and physical deployments to production such as ESXi Hypervisor, VDI, and other required infrastructure upgrades, system enhancements, and enterprise LCM evolutions

Create, modify, and maintain Standard Operating Procedures/Work Instruction documentation

Regularly STIG vCenter, Photon OS, ESXi, virtual distributed switches, virtual machines, Microsoft Server OS, and Linux OS (i.e. RHEL, Oracle Linux)

Deploy and maintain Microsoft Server 2019 and 2022

Regularly perform maintenance on Microsoft Domain Controllers, DNS, DHCP, and GPOs

Regularly perform maintenance and upgrades on VMware Horizon VDI environment

Plan and coordinate end point connected devices management, upgrades, enhancements

Coordinate system image builds IAW planned projects and initiatives and prepare deployment to production

Perform as SME in virtual system deep-dives, log analysis, and Linux command line in support of troubleshooting efforts and problem resolution

Respond to system faults, analyzing and correcting applications or system faults to reestablish service

Maintain and update relevant system and process documentation

Establish and maintain a strong working relationship with all team members

Successfully manage time and technical responsibilities, set accurate expectations and meet deliverable deadlines while working in a team collaboration environment

Maintain, update, install required certificates and track certificate revocation dates to ensure continuity of services

Test and implement patches for ESXi, vCenter, VMware Tools, (iLO/BIOS/Firmware/VC/OA), and Dell Servers (iDRAC, BIOS, Firmware)

Implement and support Dell PowerStore Storage/SAN solutions

Understanding of system hardening, tools, guidelines and benchmarks and routinely conduct STIG compliance spot-checks on various Linux, Linux-like and Windows endpoints using SCAP/Evaluate-STIG and CLI

Regularly produce White Papers, proposals, pilot analysis as it pertains to new technology introduction and developmental work

Qualification

VMware ESXi HypervisorVirtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)PowerShell scriptingMicrosoft Server 2019/2022Linux OS RHELLinux OS OracleSTIG complianceDell PowerStore StorageVMware HorizonWriting skillsTeam collaboration

Required

Requires BS degree and 8+ years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6+ years of prior relevant experience, additional years of experience may be accepted in lieu of degree

SME level knowledge and experience with VMWare ESXi Hypervisor technical integration of bare metal blade servers as well as rack server technology and hardware solutions

Solid understanding of VM Kernel Operating System installation and virtual server on physical server implementation

Proven experience and knowledge with implementing virtualization of SOFS/DFS nodes based on Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC) in supported of file shares and folder redirections within VDI

Understanding of power shell scripting or programming for systems management

Experience with Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) / DaaS

Experience deploying configuring, modifying and deploying virtual images

Experience with applying Windows/Linux patches, updates and hot fixes

Experience using Microsoft Powershell and scripting/automation

Working knowledge and experience with VMware Horizon v7.0 or higher

Experience implementing end-user profile management solution based on FSLogix, VMware Clustered VMDKs, Clustered Shared Volumes, and Scale-Out File Server (SOFS)

Strong understanding of enterprise, network, systems, operations and support

Experience and knowledge leveraging VMware Virtual Volume solution for to improve virtual environment storage agility

Strong understanding and experience with integrating VMware App Volumes solution to virtualize, secure, and rapidly deploy applications to the enterprise virtual environment

Deep understanding Role Based Access Control (RBAC) framework on unclassified and classified enclaves

Excellent writing and speaking skills

Experience with creating and maintaining network and computer datacenter diagrams, rack elevations, and drawings

Experience with applying DoD STIG requirements and using SCAP/Evaluate-STIG/STIG Viewer tool

Experience working with system security applications (ACAS) and mitigating vulnerabilities

8570/8140 IAT Level II or III: Security+ CE, VMWare VCP and System OS Cert (e.g. Linux Windows server)

Active DoD Secret clearance