Systems Engineer II (VMware)

Edgewater Federal Solutions is currently seeking a Systems Engineer II (VMware) to provide support to the FBI ITPES contract located in Pocatello, Idaho. The candidate shall design, deployment, testing, certification, patching, addressing interoperability issues of all VMware components to include the hypervisor, vSphere, NSX, vRealize Suite, and Site Recovery Manager.

• The Candidate shall design, implementation and ongoing support of the on-premises cloud Infrastructure.
• The Candidate shall serve as a subject matter expert (SME) for all VMware environments.
• The Candidate shall 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.
• The Candidate shall automated provision/configure of all required resources for servers.
• The Candidate shall evaluate, improve, and maintain the information security throughout the virtualized infrastructure.
• The Candidate shall monitor and correct storage issues and create recovery processes and hardware for failures and performance bottlenecks.
• The Candidate shall install, configure, test, and maintain system management tools, infrastructure, and server plugins.
• The Candidate shall proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability
• The Candidate shall monitor and test application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions, and work with developers to implement those fixes
• The Candidate shall maintain security, backup, and redundancy strategies
• The Candidate shall 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).
• The Candidate shall participate in the design of information and operational support systems
• The Candidate shall provide 3rd level support
• The Candidate shall liaise with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution
• The Candidate shall 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.
• The Candidate shall 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.
• The Candidate shall 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.
• The Candidate shall continually transition knowledge to the Government staff through training and assistance on how to use the technology using industry best practices.
• The Candidate shall provide real-time reporting of provisioned and non-provisioned and utilized resources to include performance metrics for availability, performance, and trends.

• 8 years related IT experience 
• U.S. Citizenship is required per contract to maintain a Top Secret Clearance with SCI-CI Poly. 
• Must have an active Top-Secret Clearance with SCI-CI Poly eligibility 
• VMware Data Center Virtualization (DCV) certification within the last 5 years 

Desired Skills:  

• Advanced VMWare certifications such as Cloud Management and Automation (DCV-CMA) preferred 
  
• Bachelors degree is preferred

About Us: 

Edgewater Federal Solutions is a privately held government contracting firm located in Frederick, MD.  The company was founded in 2002 with the vision of being highly recognized and admired for supporting customer missions through employee empowerment, exceptional services and timely delivery. Edgewater Federal Solutions is ISO 9001, 20000-1, 270001 certified, appraised at CMMI Level 3 Maturity for Development and Services, and has been named in the Top Workplaces in the Greater Washington Area Small Companies for 2018 through 2022. 

It has been and continues to be the policy of Edgewater Federal Solutions to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, and/or other status protected by applicable law.  #LI-WB1