Data Center Engineer (Infrastructure/Cloud)

Overview

Abile Group has an exciting and challenging opportunity for a Data Center Engineer (Infrastructure/Cloud) supporting a DoD Customer's Classified Network Services. The mission will include Operations, Compliance, Cyber Security, Customer Service, and Engineering. The right Desktop Systems Administrator candidate will possess the below skills and qualifications and be ready to handle all responsibilities independently and professionally.

Responsibilities

• Designs, delivers, and optimizes Infrastructure Services to improve security, availability, performance, and resource utilization in the data centers.
• Analyzes, refines, and documents the requirements for transition from legacy hardware into modern data center infrastructure environment.
• Designs and builds host & tenant environment with security hardened configuration for infrastructure services and design ongoing maintenance practices and procedures for infrastructure hosted service patching and updates.
• Designs virtual Infrastructure services to maximize available capacity of physical compute, storage, and network hardware resources.
• Documents security, configuration, and performance benchmarks of Infrastructure Services.
• Designs production infrastructure services that support highly available, private cloud, active-active data center operations, within the constraints of the environment.
• Designs practices, procedures, Automation and Orchestration to provision, de-provision, and entitle Compute, Storage, and Network resources.
• Identifies infrastructure security-relevant actions, tests, and key performance indicators for Information Dashboard and Reporting.
• Designs 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.
• Develops the end-to-end vision and the logical design that translates into physical databases, and how the data will flow through the successive stages involved.
• 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.
• Activities may include data quality engineering, metadata consolidation and integration, metamodel development and maintenance, repository management, data warehouse design and data mining, data security administration, and formulation of enterprise-specific data metrics.

Qualifications

Clearance Required: TS/SCI.

Degree and Years of Experience: 8 to 10 years with BS/BA or 6 to 8 years with MS/MA or 3 to 5 years with PhD.

Required Certifications:

• Current DoD 8570.1-M IAT Level III certification.

Desired Certifications:

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

Required Skills:

• 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 with multiple classified Government clouds.

About Abile Group, Inc.

Abile Group, Inc. was formed in July 2004 to partner with the Intelligence Community and their Contractors in the areas of Enterprise Analytics & Performance Management, IT & Systems Engineering and Program & Project Management. We have significant experience with the Federal Government and are an EDWOSB dedicated to our employees and clients. We are looking for high performing employees who enjoy providing advice and guidance along with solutions development and implementation support, crafted by combining industry best practices with the clients’ subject matter experience and Abile’s breadth of expertise. 

Hiring Statement

Abile Group, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.  Anyone requiring reasonable accommodations should email careers@abilegroup.com with requested details. A member of the HR team will respond to your request within 2 business days. 

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