Job Description ECS is seeking a
Systems Engineer II (VMware) to work in our
Pocatello, ID, Huntsville, AL, or Clarksburg, WV offices. As a Systems Engineer II (VMware), you will be responsible for design, deployment, testing, certification, patching, and addressing interoperability issues of VMware components, to include the hypervisor, vSphere, NSX, vRealize Suite, and Site Recovery Manager.
Position requirements and duties of the Systems Engineer II (VMware):
- Responsible for design, implementation and ongoing support of the on-premises cloud Infrastructure.
- Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) for all VMware environments.
- Create and maintain an on-premises cloud, software defined data center infrastructure for both bare-metal and virtual machines with the appropriate SAN , network, or local storage configurations, using both OEM and third-party tools that include virtual storage tools and services.
- Automate the provisioning/configuring of all required resources for servers.
- Evaluate, improve, and maintain the information security throughout the virtualized infrastructure.
- Monitor and correct storage issues and create recovery processes and hardware for failures and performance bottlenecks.
- Install, configure, test, and maintain system management tools, infrastructure, and server plugins.
- Proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability.
- Monitor and test application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions , and work with developers to implement those fixes.
- Maintain security, backup, and redundancy strategies.
- Write and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks, such as automated provisioning storage with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
- Participate in the design of information and operational support systems.
- Provide 3rd level support.
- Liaise with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution.
- Ensure technical documentation exists for all systems and is kept up to date to include inventory and patch levels of all systems to include hostnames, property, numbers, IP addresses, enclave, number of cores, number of processors, admin passwords, certificates, and service accounts on a monthly interval.
- Integrate systems with Windows and Linux as it applies to core service dependencies. Engineer and implement solutions for multi factor authentication with FBI standardized software and hardware.
- Document system configurations to include passwords, access controls, version number, and revision numbers, patch levels, and inventory to include hostnames, TCP/IP addresses, number of processors, and number of cores, memory, and license keys.
- Provide real-time reporting of provisioned and non-provisioned and utilized resources to include performance metrics for availability, performance, and trends.
Required Skills - Must have a current Top-Secret Clearance with the capability of obtaining SCI / CI-Poly to meet contract requirement .
- VMware Data Center Virtualization (DCV) certification within the last 5 years (or ability to obtain)
- 8+ years related IT experience
Desired Skills - Advanced VMWare certifications such as Cloud Management and Automation (DCV-CMA)
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ECS is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis any characteristic protected by law. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local jurisdiction law.
ECS is a leading mid-sized provider of technology services to the United States Federal Government. We are focused on people, values and purpose. Every day, our 3300+ employees focus on providing their technical talent to support the Federal Agencies and Departments of the US Government to serve, protect and defend the American People.
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