GDIT Emerge Labs Principal Infrastructure Specialist

General Dynamics Information Technology

100d • $153,000 - $207,000

About The Position

As an Emerge Labs Principal Infrastructure Specialist, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of our Federal, Intelligence and Defense customers. You will play a crucial role in supporting GDIT’s ability to conduct internal research and development (IR&D) building Digital Accelerators, Platforms and Mission Solutions within Emerge Labs. Emerge Labs is a multi-tenant, hybrid, multi-cloud lab environment with physical datacenter spaces located at our Falls Church, VA Headquarters campus.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (additional related experience may be considered in lieu of a degree)
• 5+ years of related experience
• 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

Nice To Haves

• 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

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.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages
• 401K with company match
• Competitive pay and paid time off
• Full flex work weeks where possible
• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees