Infrastructure Engineer

GD Information Technology • Herndon, VA

31d • Hybrid

About The Position

Deliver simple solutions to complex problems as an Infrastructure Engineer at GDIT. Here, you’ll tailor cutting-edge solutions to the unique requirements of our clients. With a career in application development, you’ll make the end user’s experience your priority and we’ll make your career growth ours. At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As an Infrastructure Engineer, you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on an Infrastructure Engineer joining our team to support our intelligence in Herndon, VA. The Infrastructure Engineer will be responsible for the engineering and execution of all Datacenter and Cloud Lab environments and ensuring connectivity between the environments to meet the business area's strategic objectives. The Infrastructure Engineer will work closely with a variety of stakeholders to provide internal services to the various Business Area teams, such as architects, engineers, and developers.

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience.
• 5+ years of related systems engineering experience
• Experience managing and maintaining a sophisticated virtualized environment that includes multiple operating systems and various networking equipment
• Experience with virtualization and platform technologies (VMWare ESXi, OpenShift, etc.)
• Experience integrating, troubleshooting, and automating systems in a Windows and Linux/Unix environment
• Knowledge of network technologies, common infrastructure components, load balancers, firewalls, virtual and physical infrastructure design
• Must be hands-on and able to work independently to design and build out new systems, including a willingness to learn and implement with new technologies
• Strong organizational and configuration management skills to maintain inventory and architectural documentation
• Active TS/SCI clearance with ability to obtain CI Polygraph
• US Citizenship Required: Yes
• Skills: Linux, Network Configurations, Virtualization
• Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: Top Secret/SCI
• Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Top Secret SCI + Polygraph

Nice To Haves

• Experience with public clouds such as AWS, Azure, Google, etc.
• Experience building Amazon EC2 instances integrating with other AWS services
• Experience with or working knowledge of on-premise Storage Subsystems (EMC, NetApp, etc)
• Experience with Automation Tools (Salt, Chef, etc.)
• Experience with DevOps Tools (GitLab, Jenkins, etc.)
• Experience with Python scripting

Responsibilities

• Work closely with management and architects to align the lab's architecture to strategic and tactical goals
• Be an engineer for major initiatives, changes and deployments, and handle the diagnosis of complex issues within the virtual environment
• Responsible for operating and maintaining network configurations and virtualization environments
• Responsible for managing and coordinating the installation and maintenance of all physical infrastructure
• Ensure appropriate security and hardening measures are in place for development and test environments
• Responsible for organizing and maintaining all lab cloud environments and assist in controlling cost in cloud accounts
• Coordinate with other services lanes (Storage Team, Database Team, etc.) for larger lab deployments
• Write and maintain up to date documentation of designs/configurations using Visio, GitLab, and SharePoint

Benefits

• Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match.
• To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
• To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available.
• We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees