ADV000BEI Network Virtualization Engineer (J)

Aerodyne Industries•Colorado Springs, CO

2h•Onsite

About The Position

Aerodyne Industries is a dynamic, rapidly growing engineering and information technology services firm headquartered on Florida’s Space Coast, with locations throughout the US. They provide small business agility with large corporation capabilities, supporting NASA’s Missions to the Moon and Mars, and defending the nation for the Missile Defense Agency and Department of Defense. The Network Virtualization Engineer supports the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on the Integrated Research and Development for Enterprise Solutions (IRES) contract. This role involves serving as a Network Virtualization Engineer and Developer, supporting network build-out and deployments to the C2BMC Test Facility. The candidate will work on complex assignments, perform a wide range of VMware system administration activities with little to no direct supervision, and provide root-cause analysis for recurring or critical problems. The engineer will 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 also include performing vulnerability remediation and mitigations to reduce cybersecurity risks, conducting daily system monitoring, system backup and restoral, and application upgrades. The role requires documenting necessary system changes, advising the Government customer on system status and optimization, assisting with the deployment of new virtual machines, and performing administration of virtualization environments including troubleshooting, patching, and system audit log reviews. Strong written and verbal communication skills are essential for briefing customers and management, along with a deep understanding of VMware troubleshooting and configuration.

Requirements

Must have 10, or more, years of general (full-time) work experience
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)
Firewall configuration and troubleshooting
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.
Have a strong understanding of troubleshooting and configuration of VMware to include protocols and switching, best-practice configurations, connectivity, and networking concepts.