ADV000BEI Network Virtualization Engineer (J)

Aerodyne Industries•Colorado Springs, CO

1d•$110,000 - $130,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Network Virtualization Engineer supports the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on the Integrated Research and Development for Enterprise Solutions (IRES) contract. The candidate will serve as a Network Virtualization Engineer and Developer supporting network build out and deployments to the C2BMC Test Facility as necessary to the Missile Defense Agency (MDA). This role involves working on complex assignments and performing a wide range of VMware system administration activities with little to no direct supervision. The engineer will provide root-cause analysis for recurring or critical problems and work closely with a team of system administrators, network engineers, and cybersecurity administrators to maintain a high-quality test environment for the Government customer. Responsibilities include performing vulnerability remediation and mitigations to reduce cybersecurity risks and ensure DoD compliance, conducting daily system monitoring, system backup and restoral, and application upgrades to ensure optimal and continuous system operations. Documentation of necessary system changes and actions in appropriate systems of record is required to ensure historical data is captured per customer and mission requirements. The engineer will advise the Government customer on system status, optimization, and improvement efforts in accordance with program objectives and design baselines as needed, and assist the system administration team with the deployment of new virtual machines. Administration of virtualization environments includes troubleshooting, break/fix activities, patching and remediation of servers, and system audit log reviews as needed. Good written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated experience briefing customers and management are essential.

Requirements

Must have 10, or more, years of general (full-time) work experience (May be reduced with completion of advanced education)
Must have 7, or more, years of directly related experience
Must have 1, or more, years of experience working in a management or leadership role
Must have experience in Internet Protocols (e.g. DNS, HTTP, SMTP, SSL)
Must have experience in Firewall configuration and troubleshooting
Must have experience in Multiple network types of telecommunications infrastructures
Must be an effective communicator with excellent writing and presentation skills using Microsoft PowerPoint and Visio drawing tools
Must be able to work collaboratively in a team environment with other highly motivated network engineers as well as independently on large field projects
Must have a deep understanding of Foundational VCF Infrastructure including Virtualization (vSphere), Networking (NSX) and Storage (vSAN)
Must be able to use SDDC Manager to patch, upgrade and provide overall system maintenance
Must have a fundamental understanding of how traffic flows through logical routers with the ability to implement these concepts in an NSX environment
Must be able to configure distributed stateful firewalling, NAT, load balancing and micro segmentation using NSX
Must have experience with the design, installation, upgrading and migration of storage using VMware vSAN
Must be able to migrate virtual machines and workloads from deprecated versions of vSphere to VMware Cloud Foundation
Must have a current DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification (Security+ CE, CySA, etc.) or higher
Must have an active DoD Secret Security Clearance

Nice To Haves

Have a demonstrated understanding of the project management lifecycle and related processes
Have experience with PIM, L2 and L3 multicast and type I encryption devices
Have experience with VXLAN, Juniper Apstra, VMWare Aria and RHEL Ansible
Have experience with HPE server products
Have experience creating and configuring virtual distributed switches
Have a VMware Certified Technical Associate - Data Center Virtualization (VCTA), VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV) , VCAP Design, VCAP Deploy or VCDX-DCV Certification
Have knowledge of Missile Defense, DoD communications systems and MDIOC operations
Have a Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) or Juniper Networks Certified Associate (JNCIA) certification
Have experience with network monitoring
Have experience with Python or Powershell programming and scripting
Have a degree in an IT or Engineering related discipline
Have an understanding of various development life cycles such as the Systems Engineering life cycle (SELC), ITIL, SDLC, etc

Responsibilities

Serve as a Network Virtualization Engineer and Developer supporting network build out and deployments to the C2BMC Test Facility as necessary to the Missile Defense Agency (MDA)
Work on complex assignments and perform a wide range of VMware system administration activities with little to no direct supervision
Provide root-cause analysis for recurring or critical problems
Work closely with a team of system administrators, network engineers, and cybersecurity administrators to maintain a high-quality test environment for the Government customer
Perform vulnerability remediation and mitigations to reduce cybersecurity risks and ensure DoD compliance
Conduct daily system monitoring, system backup and restoral, and application upgrades to ensure optimal and continuous system operations
Document necessary system changes and actions in appropriate systems of record to ensure historical data is captured per customer and mission requirements
Advise Government customer on system status, optimization and improvement efforts in accordance with program objectives and design baselines as needed
Assist system administration team with the deployment of new virtual machines
Perform administration of virtualization environments to include troubleshooting, break/fix activities, the patching and remediation of servers, and system audit log reviews as needed
Have good written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated experience briefing customers and management