IT Infrastructure Intern

Metova Federal•Orlando, FL

About The Position

By Light Professional IT Services LLC readies warfighters and federal agencies with technology and systems engineered to connect, protect, and prepare individuals and teams for whatever comes next. Headquartered in McLean, VA, By Light supports defense, civilian, and commercial IT customers worldwide. Cole Engineering Services (CESI), a By Light company, is recognized as a premier provider of modeling and simulation (M&S) training solutions to the Federal Government and industry. Since 2004, CESI has been at the forefront of developing, maintaining, and integrating simulation-based training, serious gaming, technical services, training and other support in live, virtual, constructive, and gaming (LVCG) domains. CESI also designs, builds and runs infrastructure, platforms, applications and processes that enable cyber training for the integrated multi-domain force. Our vision is to become a worldwide full spectrum LVCG and cyber training/analysis developer, integrator and services provider. Candidate will work with an experienced team of cybersecurity, software, CICD, IT infrastructure and systems engineers to support the development, operations and security of a complex, distributed hybrid (on prem and cloud) system. The intern will be given hands on engineering tasks and will participate as a part of the team. The intern will gain practical experience with Agile system development using industry standard tools such as Jira and Confluence, and will learn and apply technical tools and approaches to solve real world technical problems. The duration of the internship is May - August.

Requirements

Working towards a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a technical discipline such as cybersecurity, computer engineering, computer science or information technology from an accredited college or university
Ability to work part time while continuing to perform strongly in course work leading towards a cybersecurity, computer engineering/science or IT related degree.
Ability to work as a member of a technical team to complete complex software and systems projects
A strong interest and curiosity in cybersecurity, software and IT related technologies
U. S. Citizenship status with ability to obtain a SECRET to TOP SECRET security clearance.

Nice To Haves

CompTIA Security+ certification
Active Secret Clearance

Responsibilities

Operate in a virtualized and cloud based environment
Utilize VMWare tools to manage connections to virtual hosts and analyze resource utilization
Access virtual VM and/or cloud hosts to execute commands, perform analyses, and retrieve files.
Operate in a predominately Linux environment
Basic CLI proficiency
Execute and maintain Linux compatible scripts
Independently execute technical tasking
Maintain progress metrics
Report status on regular intervals
Author and maintain technical documentation
Perform trade studies to compare Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) options for a technical solution that best fits program needs.
Evaluate enterprise level network, compute, and storage solutions
Support the assembly and management of on prem servers in a data center environment
Configuration, management and monitoring of on prem and cloud based IT infrastructure
Networking (e.g. Cisco devices)
Storage (e.g. NetApp)
Compute
Virtualization/Cloud software Infrastructure (e.g. VMware vSphere, Azure, AWS)